BORN NAFFERTON 1887. SON OF CHRISTOPHER GEORGE & SARAH ANN TEAGLE, OF 109, NORWOOD, BEVERLEY. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN.
HE WORKED AS A GARDENER AND WAS DESCRIBED OF GOOD BUILD AND NEARLY SIX FOOT TALL. RESIDENT IN HORNSEA IN 1911.
HE MARRIED VIOLET, ON 08/08/1914, IN MAPPLETON BEFORE ENLISTING ON 03/10/1914. RELIGION GIVEN WAS PRIMITIVE METHODIST.
ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 12TH EYR, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. PROMOTED SERGEANT, IN THE FIELD ON 04/09/1916. KILLED IN ACTION ON 13/11/1916, AGED 29.
HE LEFT WIDOW, VIOLET WILSON AND DAUGHTER MADGE. HIS WIFE MOVED TO BEWHOLME, SEATON, OUTSIDE HULL, AFTER HIS DEATH. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE NORWOOD STREET, MEMORIAL, BEVERLEY & THE MAPPLETON VILLAGE WW1 MEMORIAL.
Day 1354. Hull Pals Memorial Post. SERGEANT ALBERT BRAITHWAITE 12/865. Born in Nafferton, Driffield in 1886 Albert was one of ten children- five sons and five daughters- to Christopher and Sarah Ann Braithwaite of 109 Norwood, Beverley. A Gardener by trade he married Violet Wilson at Mappleton Church on 8th August 1914, four days after war was declared. They had a daughter, Madge, just before Albert left these shores bound for Alexandria, Egypt in December 1915 as part of the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. Albert was killed in action, like so many of his comrades, during the last desperate action of the fated Somme campaign on 13th November 1916 in front of the ruins of the French village of Serre. His body was never recovered; he was 29 years old.
