BORN HULL 1898. SON OF ALFRED & LAVINIA SOPHIA WELLS OF 37 MARMADUKE STREET, HULL. PRIOR TO THE WAR, HE WORKED FOR MESSRS ACKWITH, OF THORNTON STREET, HULL AND ATTENDED THE COLTMAN STREET SUNDAY SCHOOL. HE LIVED AT 15 ALBERT AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS WHEN WAR BEGAN. HAD ONLY BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR ONE MONTH BEFORE HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/08/1916, AGED 18. HDM 22/08/1916.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE MARADUKE STREET SCHRINE. (HDM 27/09/1916).
HIS DEAATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 23/08/1916. *
First name:
WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
125
Rank:
Private
Date Died
06/08/1916
Place died:
Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France
Age:
18
