Attested 25 May 1915 at Central Recruiting Office City Hall Hull – Medal Index Card British War Medal and Victory Medal with 1/4th Battalion east Yorkshire Regiment – Photo and write up – Effects to Mother and sole legatee Sarah A – Commemorated East Yorkshire Regiment War Memorial Beverley Minster East Yorkshire – Commemorated Barton on Humber War Memorial entrance to New Cemetery Barrow Road Barton on Humber
War Diary –
14th July 1916
Casualties: – one man killed, eleven wounded four of them at duty. A Coy relieved B Coy in front line J3 – K1. Trench strength: 30 Officers and 704 other ranks.