BORN HULL 1897. ONLY SON OF NED JESSOP WILSON & RHODA (HAWLEY) WILSON, OF 36, ALL SAINTS STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HIS SISTERS MABEL & DORIS, LIVED 95 MIDDLETON STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND 9, WHITEHALL GARDENS, VICTORIA AVENUE, HULL
AN ARTIST APPRENTICE. HE HAD A PROMISING ART CAREER BEFORE HIM.
HE ENLISTED AT MARYLEBONE, MIDDLESEX. JOINED THE 20TH KRRC (LONDON REGIMENT) KILLED BY A SHELL, WHILE WORKING WITH HIS COMPANY, IN THE TRENCHES, ON 04/05/1917, AGED 20. HE IS BURIED AT TILOY BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 19TH MAY 1917. *
First name:
HORACE
Military Number:
9796
Rank:
Rifleman
Date Died
04/05/1917
Place died:
Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
20
9 WHITEHALL GARDENS, VICTORIA AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
