BORN WOODHOUSE, COTTINGHAM 1880. SON OF FRANCIS & JANE WINTER. A SINGLE MAN. HE LIVED WITH HIS BROTHER ALFRED, IN PRESTON, HOLDERNESS. EMPLOYED AS A DOMESTIC SERVANT (1911 CENSUS) AND AT THE ASSYLUM FARM, WILLERBY.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL HEAVY BATTERY. DIED OF FEVER, IN EAST AFRICA, ON 22/08/1917, AGED 32
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ALL SAINTS CHURCH MEMORIAL, PRESTON.
BURIED AT DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY, TANZANIA, EAST AFRICA. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ONE AND ALL”
First name:
FRANCIS WILLIAM
Military Number:
290010
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
22/08/1917
Place died:
DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY, TANZANIA, EAST AFRICA
Age:
32
