Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & MARGARET HANNAH BLANCHARD, OF 10 WINDSOR TERRACE AND 5 CITY GROVE, HARROW STREET, HULL. FORMERLY EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, SANDERSON'S PAINT WORKS AS A LABOURER. HIS WIFE ELLEN (COOK) LIVED AT 3 OLIVE GROVE, HARROW STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT WITH THE 11TH EAST YORKSH […]
Battery Sergeant Major
6 KINGS CROSS TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
16/05/1917
Aged
31
BORN HULL 1886. ELDEST SON OF HENRY WEST (1844-1911) & SARAH DOUGLAS (1855-1930), OF 6, KING'S CROSS TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL. SON OF A (NER) RAILWAY LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. HE JOINED THE ARTILLERY 14 YEARS AGO AND HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR OVER TWO YEARS. AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF WAR, HE WAS TRAINING RECRUITS […]
