BORN BEVERLEY 1897. SON OF GEORGE WINTER (1846-1906) & HARRIET MOWTHORPE (1857-1930), OF 40, EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL AND 7, MILL LANE, BEVERLEY. SON OF A TANNER’S LABOURER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. THE FAMILY LIVED AT MARKET WEIGHTON (1881), BEVERLEY (1891) AND HULL (1901 & 1911 CENSUS). UNMARRIED. HE WORKED AS A DAIRYMAN FOREMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8.5 INCHES TALL, 117 LBS WEIGHT, 35-37 INCH CHEST, “FAIR” PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. HIS ARMY ADDRESS, WAS 40, EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY ON 24/08/1916. TRAINED IN WITHERNSEA. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 22/12/1916. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 27078, 1/4TH EYR, “B” COMPANY, 8TH PLATOON. TAKEN PRISONER ON 23/03/1918. DIED IN CAPTIVITY OF INFLUENZA, ON 30/09/1918, AGED 21. HIS BODY WAS UNRECOVERED AND HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE SOISSONS MEMORIAL FRANCE. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 2 YEARS AND 38 DAYS. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, HARRIET, WHO HAD LOST THREE SONS IN THE WAR.
HIS BROTHER, HARRY WINTER, SERVED AS A SERGEANT, WITH THE 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED ON 06/11/1918, AGED 40. HE IS BURIED AT BETTRECHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “DEARER TO MEMORY THAN WORDS CAN TELL” HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, HARRIET, HIS BROTHERS, CHARLES AND WILLIAM AND HIS SISTERS, CLARA FOSTER AND JESSIE SHEARMAN. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, WW1 MEMORIAL, AT BEVERLEY MEMORIAL HALL WHICH RECORDS 145 MEMBERS WHO DIED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
HIS OTHER BROTHER, GUNNER, VICTOR WINTER, RFA, WAS GASSED AND DIED IN FRANCE ON 17/09/1918, AGED 19. HE IS BURIED AT WIMILLE CEMETERY, FRANCE.
THE THREE WINTER BROTHERS ARE RECORDED TOGETHER ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL AT ST JOHNS, NEWLAND, CLOUGH ROAD, HULL.
