BORN BEVERLEY 1890. SON OF JOHN EDWARD WOODTHORPE AND ISABELLA DAVIS. A LABOURER. ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED AS A PRIVATE IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 26. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ISABELLA. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BEVERLEY WAR MEMORIAL, WITH HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, TOM DAVIS WOODTHORPE, 5TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS, KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 17/07/1916, AGED 29.
First name:
JOHN EDWARD
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/5980
Rank:
Private
Date Died
25/09/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
26
8 ST ANDREW STREET, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
