William Kraus

Driver William Henry Kraus was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born c. 1886, in Middlesbrough, the son of German-born parents Peter, a whitesmith by trade, and Lizette. At the time of the 1911 census, the younger Kraus was working as a house plasterer while living with his family at 79 Cannon Street.
Aged 31, Kraus died on 26 August 1917, of wounds received on the Western Front, while serving with the 111th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He had married, to Betsy.
He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Kraus, W H, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
Category:1886 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Buried in Belgium
Category:Drivers