Attested 01 September 1914 Wenlock Barracks Anlaby Road Hull – Medal Index Card Entered Egypt 22 December 1915 with 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Entered Marseilles France 7 March 1916 – Awarded the Military Medal “for conspicuous bravery in carrying bombs across no man’s land during the Battle of the Somme” on which occasion he was wounded and had to lose his right arm. – Wounded casualty list Hull Daily Mail 23 December 1916 – East Yorkshire Regiment Posted wounded Snapper January 1917 – East Yorkshire Regiment Posted wounded Snapper April 1917 – Discharged 7 December 1917 – Silver War Badge Number 278451 – aged 23 years – Died at Hull 16 December 1922 leaves a wife and family (Snapper January 1923)