Service Number
4th/2244
Rank
Private
Firstname
Matthew
Lastname
Cranswick
Battalion
7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
Notes

Attested 31 August 1914 4th Battalion at Londesborough Street Barracks Hull – re-numbered 200495 – Medal Index Card Entered Boulogne France 17 April 1915 with 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – A Coy Admitted to hospital 29 April 1915 – A Coy discharged from hospital 13 May 1915 – 1st/4th Battalion Posted wounded Snapper June 1915 – Posted 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Killed Casualty List Hull Daily News 20 June 1918 – AVL Hull 1918 Lance Corporal East yorkshire regiment – Brother Captain William Cranswick East Yorkshire Regiment – Effects to father and sole legatee Matthew H – Commemorated East Yorkshire Regiment War Memorial Beverley Minster East Yorkshire – Commemorated Holy Trinity Hull Golden Book of Remembrance

Age
1896
Birthplace
Hull
Enlisted
Hull
Residence
Hull
How Died
Killed in Action
Memorial
Commemorated on Panel 27 and 28. POZIERES Memorial Somme France
Next of Kin
14 Roxborough Street Hull
Date Died
05-May-18