Formerly Corporal 22329 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment , Commisioned East Yorkshire Regiment 26 June 1917 , According to “With a Poppy and a Prayer Officers Died at Paschendale” by Keith Perry. He was with the 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington s (West Riding Regiment) aged 23 years and was ex 4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment , Killed whilst leading his platoon in an attack, Assistant master at Ann Crook s School Hartlepool and was also an organist at Hat parish Chuch Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 04 October 1917