Fell, Harry

BORN HULL 1883. JOINED HULL PAL’S BN. KIA. ARMY ADDRESS ABOVE. SISTER ALICE BELLIS LIVED 180 THORESBY STREET.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE HARRY FELL 12/1360. Born in 1883, Harry was the youngest of five children to Thomas and Elizabeth Fell of 38 Waverley Street, Hull. A Joiner by trade he was living with his sister at 22 South Street when war came. He enlisted at City Hall on 4th January 1915 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. After serving in Egypt over the winter of 1915-16, the Pals arrived in France on March 8th and by the end of the month were becoming all too familiar with the daily ritual of life in the trenches- the long periods of boredom, the sudden bursts of panic and terror, the stand-to at dawn and dusk, the tedium of sentry duty, the forays into no man’s land under cover of darkness, and the sheer randomness of death. Harry was killed in action on 27th July 1916 and buried in Rue-du-Bacquerot No.1 Military Cemetery; he was 33 years old.