BORN HULL 1887. AKA GODFREY MIDGLEY. SON OF JOAH SCOTT MIDGLEY (1847-1919) AND LOUISA HORSFALL (1855-1935), OF 154 WALKER STREET, HULL AND ANLABY, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE MARRIED PHOEBE EVELINE BINGHAM, IN APRIL 1907. HIS WIFE PHOEBE & 3 CHILDREN, LIVED AT 5 OLIVE VILLAS, KIMBERLEY STREET, HULL AND 33, FREEHOLD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE WORKED IN A CHIPS AND PEAS SALOON. (1911 CENSUS) AND “STAGE HAND”. BEFORE WAR WAS DECLARED WAS THE BAGGAGE MASTER AT THE HULL PALCE.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 30/06/1916, AGED 30 YEARS AND 90 DAYS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6.5 INCHES TALL, 37.5 INCH CHEST, 140 LBS WEIGHT, MOLES ON HIS BACK AND CHEST. FORMERLY PRIVATE, 5770, 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 15/10/1916. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 24392, 2ND DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S (WEST RIDING REGIMENT), ON 02/11/1916. PROMOTED LANCE CORPORAL, ON 06/12/1916 AND TO FULL CORPORAL, ON 27/04/1917. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT PRUX, NEAR ARRAS, ON 01/05/1917, AGED 31. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HE LEFT A WIDOW, AND CHILDREN, NORMAN, MURIEL AND MARGARET, AT 25 CLIFTON STREET, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS). SHE LATER MOVED TO 33 FREEHOLD STREET, SPRING BANK, HULL.
HIS BROTHER, DRIVER, WILLIAM SCOTT MIDGLEY, ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY, WAS KILLED ON THE SOMME, ON 26/08/1918, AGED 25. HIS WIFE CARED FOR GODFREY’S DAUGHTER, MURIEL AND THIS CAUSED SOME DELAY AND CONFUSION WHEN RELEASING HIS WAR PENSION.
