Winn, Jacob

BORN SCARBOROUGH 17/04/1883. FOURTH SON OF ROBERT WINN (1844-1891) AND SARAH ANN THOROUGHGATE (1848-1927), OF SCARBOROUGH. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS, A STEP SISTER AND STEP BROTHER.

HE MARRIED MAUD ANNIE JEFFERSON (1895-1957) AT SCARBOROUGH, ON 09/11/1903. WORKED IN HULL AS A MILLER AND FLOUR PACKER. THEY HAD TWO SONS AND LIVED AT 197, WATERLOO STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 14, RYDALE TERRACE, LANSDOWNE STREET, ANLABY ROAD, HULL.

HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE TERRITORIALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/04/1917, AGED 34. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MAUD, AT THIS WAR PENSION ADDRESS.

HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, BOULEVARD.

Name Jacob Winn
Birth Place Scarborough
Residence Scarborough
Death Date 23 Apr 1917
Death Place France and Flanders
Enlistment Place Hull
Rank Private
Regiment East Yorkshire Regiment
Battalion 1st 4th Battalion
Regimental Number 200546
Type of Casualty Killed in action
Theatre of War Western European Theatre

First name:
JACOB
Military Number:
200546
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/04/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
34
14, RYDALE TERRACE, LANSDOWNE STREET, ANLABY ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK