Bromby, William Girdlestone

Hull Pals Memorial Post. LIEUTENANT, WILLIAM GIRDLESTONE BROMBY 10/911. Born in Hull in 1893, William was the youngest of two sons to Alfred and Laura Bromby of Maridene, Princes Avenue, Withernsea. He originally joined the fledgling battalion in September 1914 answering the call of King and Country and joining as a Private. He was a veteran of Egypt and all the major campaigns in France and Flanders. As a Private, he was admitted to hospital with influenza, 0n 25/03/1916. Promoted to Lieutenant on 30/05/1917. Transferred to the 10th East Yorkshire Regiment, on 29/10/1917. Promoted to Lieutenant, on 30/11/1918, after 18 months. He survived the war, but had been gassed in the trenches and never fully recovered. William died on 29th May 1921 at home. The tragedy is that Laura Bromby had only buried her husband that March and two months later returned to the same Churchyard, St. Nicholas’s in Withernsea, to bury her youngest son. William Bromby was 26 years old.
His Grandparents – Thomas & Eliza Cooper lived at 71 Somerset Street, Hull and he was staying at this address in the 1901 Census.