BORN HULL 1893. SON HENRY & ELLEN WINDLE OF 126 REGENT STREET, HULL. SECOND OF FOUR CHILDREN. SON OF A FOREMAN. EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER. HE MARRIED MAY PILMOOR (1893-1978) AT HULL ON DECEMBER 1914. THEIR DAUGHTER WINIFRED WAS BORN IN 1915. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITHTHE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED AT YPRES, ON 09/03/1915, AGED 22. COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEORIAL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ELLEN AND THEN WIDOW, MAY WAKERLEY.
First name:
WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
11330
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/03/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
22
