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STANLEY TRAIN OSBOURNE
BORN HULL, 1898. ADOPTED SON OF FRANCIS OSBOURNE (1862-1921) & HARRIET LEAF (1861-1942), OF 23, GUYS TERRACE, COLONIAL STREET (1901 CENSUS) AND 19, SIDMOUTH STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS STEP FATHER WAS A TRAMWAY MOTORMAN. HE HAD ONE ELDER SISTER, FLORENCE MAY OSBOURNE (1885-1954)
H ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 3079, EYR. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 4402, & THEN 241938, 1/5TH BORDER REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 01/10/1916, AGED 18.
COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FOSTER MOTHER, HARRIET.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 29/12/1917.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ST JOHNS, NEWLAND, MEMORIAL, CLOUGH ROAD, HULL, WITH HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, ROBERT WILLIAM OSBOURNE, 1/4TH EYR, WHO DIED OF WOUNDS, IN 1919, AGED 26.
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