Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. The brother of David who is also commemorated here: they both originally came from Hull and there was a 3rd brother who was also killed, apparently. William was married to Elizabeth and they had 2 children. Like his brother David, he worked as a shunter on the railway but, as a Reservist and unlike David, was called up on August 8th, 1914. He was invalided home in July 1915, returned to France in the November and was wounded in the head and again invalided home in September 1916. Upon returning to his unit in November 1916 he was promoted to Sergeant. He and David are both also commemorated on IWM 2625.