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ROY WALTER MENNELL
Kingston upon Hull HU3 1AN
England
BORN YORK 1897. ONLY SON OF FREDERICK MENNELL (1863-1930) & SARAH ELIZABETH ESHELBY (1863-1927), OF 100 , CLARENDON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A FOREMAN FITTER AT THE RAILWAY ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. HE HAD ONE SISTER, EDITH. HE WAS A HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE STUDENT.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/11/1916, AGED 19. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE, TO THE MISSING. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ELIZABETH.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, WW1 MEMORIAL, BOULEVARD AND THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE WW1 MEMORIAL.
Hauts-de-France
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