BORN HULL 1886. SON OF WILLIAM K MARSHALL (1845-1910) y MARY DOROTHY CUTHBERT (1854-1894).
HIS SISTERS FLORENCE & GRACE LIVED AT 14, JAMES PLACE, COLLIER STREET. BEFORE THE WAR WILLIAM WORKED AS A BOTTLE WASHER (1911 CENSUS) & LATER WAS EMPLOYED AS A STEAM WAGGON DRIVER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. (HULL DAILY MAIL 1 JAN 1917).
HUSBAND OF GRACE MARSHALL (BORN 10 MAY 1892). THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN – VERA WINIFRED (BORN 28 SEPT 1913) & WILLIAM (BORN 22 JUNE 1915).
ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND KING’SOWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. REPORTED MISSING ON THE 18TH NOVEMBER 1916 AND LATER CONFIRMED AS KILLED IN ACTION. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIFE. HE LEFT A WIDOW & TWO CHILDREN AT 3, MARY’S TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS WIDOW WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 22/11 SHILLINGS, ON 16 JULY 1917.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 15TH DECEMBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
