BORN HULL 1883. SECOND SON OF GEORGE ROBERT & ANNIE ELIZABETH WALMSLEY, OF 6 PORTOBELLO STREET, HULL. LIVED ELLOUGHTON, NEAR BROUGH. WORKED AS A GARDENER. A ROMAN CATHOLIC. HE MARRIED PAULINA BAKES, AT HUMBLETON, ON 28/09/1904. ENLISTED HULL, ON 26/02/1917. SERVED FORMERLEY AS 221852 ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1/5th SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT, ON 16/12/1917. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/04/1918, AGED 34.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, PAULINA, AND YOUNG SON HARRY.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE HULL GARDENER SOCIETY MEMORIAL, HULL’S MINSTER.
First name:
HARRY
Military Number:
32594
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
27/04/1918
Place died:
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
34
6 , PORTOBELLO STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
