BORN HULL 1876. ELDEST SON OF JOHN AND MARGARET WILSON, OF HULL. A DOCK LABOURER (1911 CENSUS) AND LATER A RECKITT’S EMPLOYEE. HE MARRIED MARY ANN DACK, AT HULL, ON 21/05/1898.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 14786, IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS WOUNDED TWICE. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 397145, TO THE 942ND LABOUR COPRS. HE DIED OF OF GUN SHOT WOUNDS TO THE CHEST, ON 27/04/1918, AGED 42. HE IS BURIED AT ST SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARY ANN & SON GEORGE AT 1 ST ANDREWS AVENUE, ST MARKS STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS)
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S ST MARKS STREET ROLL OF HONOUR.
HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 13TH OCTOBER 1915. *
First name:
RICHARD
Military Number:
14786
Rank:
Private
Date Died
27/04/1918
Place died:
St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Age:
42
1 ST ANDREWS AVENUE, ST MARKS STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
