Attested 20 February 1912 3rd Battalion Special Reserve at Hull – 3rd Battalion Awarded 3rd Class Certificate of Education April 1912 – Mobilized 8 August 1914 Victoria Barracks Beverley East Yorkshire – Medal Index Card entered France 23 October 1914 with 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – 1st Battalion Wounded 6 April 1915 – 1st Battalion Died of Wounds 18th Field Ambulance Cite Bonjean 7 April 1915 – Effects to widow and sole legasee Mary Ellen – Photograph & Orbit – Commemorated East Yorkshire Regiment War Memorial Beverley Minster East Yorkshire