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JOHN WILLIAM BREWER
Sgt, John William Brewer, KRRC
BORN HULL 11/09/1896 SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM BREWER (1861-1931) & EMILY MALINDA BLENKIN (1870-1959), OF 4, SEPTERMERE AVENUE, REDBOURNE STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, GEORGE AND HERBERT AND ONE MARRIED SISTER, HARRIET ELIZABETH, LIVING AT 9, REDBOURNE STREET, HULL.
HIS GRANDPARENTS LIVED AT 4, BEAUMONT STREET, HULL. HIS UNCLES AT 62, BUNSWICK AVENUE AND 8, WARWICK STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL.
WORKED AS A GROCER'S ERRAND BOY (1911 CENSUS) AND LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 3.5 INCHES TALL, 38 INCH CHEST.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 06/07/1915. SERVED WITH THE 18TH KING'SROYAL RIFLE CORPS. APPOINTED LANCE CORPORAL, 06/08/1915; PROMOTED TO CORPORAL, 18/11/1915; LANCE SERGEANT, 02/05/1916; AND SERGEANT, ON 15/07/1916.
POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 02/05/1916. SERVED WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE FOR TWO YEARS & SAW ACTION IN ITALY. HE HAD ALREADY BEEN WOUNDED TWICE (02/10/1916 & 05/08/1917). DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 06/10/1918, AGED 22.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFTT OHIS MOTHER, EMILY M.
HE LEFT BROTHERS HERBERT GOODWIN BRWER & GEORGE HENRY BREWER (SERVING IN INDIA), AND FIANCE, ELIZABETH.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 23RD OCTOBER 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
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