BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST CHILD OF WALTER & CATHERINE WARDELL, LIVING AT 11 ARTHURS TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORD AND WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS, THOMAS, JOSEPH AND ROBERT, AND A SISTER CATHERINE. EMPLOYED AS AN OIL MILL LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 18/05/1916. ARRIVED FRANCE, 29/12/1916. POSTED TO 19TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, ON 19/01/1917. REPORTED MISSING AND PRESUMED KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/11/1917, AGED 19. HIS ARMY RECORDS SHOW HIS MOTHER WROTE ANXIOUS LETTERS TO THE WAR OFFICE ASKING ABOUT HER SON’S WHEREABOUTS. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT TYNE COT MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
First name:
JOHN HENRY
Military Number:
23/307
Rank:
Private
Date Died
28/11/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
19
11 ARTHURS TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
