BORN BEVERLEY 1877. LIVED HESSLE. SSON OF WILLIAM WOOD (1849-1905) AND PRISCILLA MEDD (1854-1928). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. A CASUAL LABOURER. MARRIED IN 1905. HIS WIFE ALICE LOWTHORPE (1885-1974) & THREE CHILDREN, LIVED AT SOUTHGATE, HESSLE.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, IN THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 06/03/1915. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT NO:13 HOSPITAL, BOULONGE, ON 04/05/1915, AGED 38. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ALICE.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH.
First name:
SAMUEL HERCLIFF
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/7729
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
04/05/1915
Place died:
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
38
SOUTHGATE PLACE, HESSLE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
