Attested 01 December 1914 at City Hall Hull – Medal Index Card entered Egypt 29 December 1915 with 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Entered Marseilles France 8 March 1916 – 13th Battalion Promoted Corporal 8 September 1916 – 13th Battalion reported missing 13th November 1916 – Missing Casualty List Hull Daily News 09 January 1917 – East Yorkshire Regiment Posted missing Snapper February 1917 – Previously reported missing now reported killed casualty list Hull Daily Mail 11 August 1917 – Originally buried John Copse Cemetery Number 2 – Documents Available – Effects to widow Alice for self and children – Commemorated East Yorkshire Regiment War Memorial Beverley Minster East Yorkshire