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JAMES WILLIAM SOWERBY
James William Sowerby
BORN HULL 1893. SOUTHCOATES. SON OF JAMES & ANNIE ELIZABETH SOWERBY, OF 16, WALLER STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND SOUTH PARADE, HULL. HIS FOSTER MOTHER WAS MARGARET A. GIBBIN, OF 14, SARAH ANN TERRACE, HULL.
HE WAS EDUCATED AT HYMERS COLLEGE, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 1 MAY 1915. SERVED WITH THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARD.
A CAPTAIN OF THE 2ND BATTALION WRITING TO HIS RELATIVES REPORTED THAT HE WAS KILLED BY A SHELL ON THE 08/101915, WHICH LANDED IN THE TRENCH & HE WAS BURIED NEARBY. HE WAS 22 YEARS OLD.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHERM, JAMES.
COMMEMORATED ON THE LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE, TO THE MISSING.
JAMES SOWERBY IS LISTED ON THE SPYVEE STREET, ST MARKS STREET, SOUTH PARADE & HYMER COLLEGE ROLLS OF HONOUR.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 8TH NOVEMBER 1915. *
Loos-en-Gohelle 62750
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