Lance Corporal William Henry King

Army Number: 102784 (formerly Private 22635, East Yorkshire Regiment)

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born at Moose Jaw, Canada and was the son of Lawrence Bowdler King and Rachel King, of 21, May Street, Newland, Hull, Yorkshire. He was a clerk prior to enlisting on 22nd November 1915 at Hull. He was posted to the 14th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment on 15th May 1916 and the 15th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment on 1st July 1916. Was appointed Lance Corporal on 5th August 1916. He went to France on 31st January and joined the 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, on 4th February 1917. On the 21st of April 1917, he was admitted to 94th Field Ambulance suffering from Trench Fever. He was treated at the 22nd Casualty Clearing Station at Bruay, France and was admitted to the 2nd Canadian Stationary Hospital at Outreau, France 23rd April 1917. He was then transferred to the 25th General Hospital at Hardelot, France, on 29th May 1917, before being transferred to England on Hospital Ship Pieter de Connick on the 19th of June 1917. Once in England, he was treated at Northampton War Hospital, Duston, Northamptonshire from the 20th June 1917 until the 8th of August 1917. He returned to France on 22nd March 1918 and was transferred to the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 30th March 1918. He was posted to the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 17th June 1918 and died of wounds on 28th August 1918, aged 22.

Buried: La Targette British Cemetery, Neuville-St. Vaast, France. Plot 4. Row B. Grave 7.

His brother Company Sergeant Major Lawrence Leggott King, 13th Company Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) also fell in the Great War.