BORN HULL 1894. SON OF GEORGE (MARBLE MASON) TUTON, ABOVE ADDRESS, 29 HOLDERNESS ROAD AND 87 WORTHING STREET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A SHOP ASSISTANT. ENLISTED IN HULL. EX 489, THE HULL PALS, EYR & 31ST DIVISION. TRANSFERRED TO THE EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED IN ACTION ON THE SOMME. HIS NAME IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HE LEFT HIS WILL TO HIS BROTHERS ARTHUR, ALBERT AND FRED AND SISTERS, ESTHER AND ALEY.
HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HDM ON 03/06/1915, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON 05/06/1915. *
First name:
JOHN HENRY
Military Number:
12489
Rank:
Private
Date Died
02/07/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
22
