Attested 11 August 1910 with the 4th Battalion at Londesborough Street Barracks – Embodied 5 August 1914 – Medal Index Card Entered Boulogne France 17 April 1915 with 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – C Coy Admitted to hospital 3 May 1915 – Reported killed 13 October 1915 (War Diary) – Hull Daily Mail 18 October 1915 – 13 October 1916 – Photo ‘Known to the Night’ – Effects to joint legatees father George Thomas and mother Sarah Jane – Commemorated East Yorkshire Regiment War Memorial Beverley Minster East Yorkshire – Commemorated Holy Trinity Hull Golden Book of Remembrance – Commemorated Reckitts war memorial Dansom Lane Hull