Attested 26 February 1912 with the 4th Battalion at Londesborough Street Barracks Hull – Embodied 5 August 1914 – Medal Index Card Entered Boulogne France 17 April 1915 with 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Wounded April or May 1915 Casualty List Hull Daily News 28 September 1915 – Posted wounded Snapper November 1915 – A Coy reported wounded 27 September 1915 (War Diary) – Transferred 150th Coy Machine Gun Corps 23480 – Killed in action 23 April 1917 – Effects to mother and sole legatee Mary J – Tram-men with Hull Tramway Mr J Wilkinsons department killed Hull Daily Mail 30 May 1917