BORN HULL 1867. SON OF EDWARD WARD WRAY (1827-1887) & HANNAH SMITH.
MARRIED IN 1886, AGED 18. HIS WIFE ELLEN CRAWFORD, LIVED 11 RICHARDS TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A ROAD FOREMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 37.5 – 39.5 INCH CHEST, 164 LBS WEIGHT, CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
WAS A WIDOWER WHEN HE ENLISTED AND HIS DAUGHTER, MAUD PEXTON, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS.
ENLISTED LONDON, ON 06/10/1915. LEFT DEVONPORT, ON THE “EMPRESS OF BRITAIN”. ARRIVED IN EGYPT, ON 25/10/1915. SERVED IN THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS. DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE GROIN, IN THE BOMBAY HOSPITAL, AT ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, ON 08/01/1916, AGED 49. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR JUST 95 DAYS
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH. HE LEFT THREE DAUGHTERS AND A SON.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/01/1916. *
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, EGYPT.
