BORN HULL 1883. SON OF THOMAS WREATHALL & MATILDA DRY, 87 OXFORD STREET. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE RESIDED AT 13 CROWN TERRACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL. (HDM ADDRESS, 11/05/1915). HE SERVED WITH THE 1ST BATTALION, KING’S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFRANTRY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL AND HAD ONLY BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR A FORTNIGHT, BEFORE HE WAS KILLED, ON 25/04/1915, AGED 32.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 12TH MAY 1915, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON 15/05/1915.*
COMMEMORATED AT THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT YPRES.Ypres (Ieper), West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
First name:
GEORGE HENRY
Military Number:
3553
Rank:
Private
Date Died
25/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
32
3 CROWN TERRACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL., EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
