Attested 1 September 1914 at Pryme Street Recruiting Office Hull – Medal Index Card entered France 6 March 1915 with 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Posted missing 8 May 1915 – Posted Wounded Snapper July 1915 – Commemorated East Yorkshire Regiment War Memorial Beverley Minster East Yorkshire – Commemorated North Eastern Railway War Memorial York – North Eastern Railway staff magazine July 1916 page 153