BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF JOHN WILCOCKSON & ADA WILCOCKSON, AT THIS 1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS. A FORMER SHIPPING CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN THE 10TH EYR (HULL PALS). TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST BATTALION, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/04/1918, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, DORIS I MILLWARD, WHO HE MARRIED IN 1918. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON HULL’S HYMERS COLLEGE MEMORIAL. HE IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROLL OF HONOUR.
HE IS ALSO COMMEMORATED ON THE WITHERNSEA WW1 MEMORIAL.
First name:
GEOFFREY
Regiment:
Military Number:
10/773
Rank:
Private
Date Died
25/04/1918
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
24
