BORN SUTTON, HULL, 1867. SON OF WILLIAM MITTON & SOPHIA JANE WALKER (1842-1894), OF 28, LORNE STREET, HULL. HE LIVED WITH HIS GRANMOTHER, HARRIET STAVES WHEN HIS PARENTS DIED.
HE MARRIED EMMA JANE BROWN (1865-1935), ON 25/03/1888, AT ST JAMES’ CHURCH, HULL. THEY LIVED AT 11 & 91, BARMSTON STREET, HULL WITH THEIR FOUR CHILDREN (1911 CENSUS).
HIS WIFE EMMA MITTON LIVED AT 9, CATHERINE SQUARE, MASON STREET, HULL (CWGC & PROBATE ADDRESS). THEY HAD DAUGHTER OLIVE MAY (1889-1953) & THREE SONS, GEORGE WILLIAM MITTON (1896-1969); CHARLES SIDNEY MITTON (1899-1934) & ERNEST EDWARD MITTON (1901-1901).
HE WAS A LONG SERVING, POLICE CONSTABLE, BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR.
HE ENLISTED IN THE MILITARY POLICE ON 25/05/1915. DISCHARGED 01/11/1917. DIED 10/08/1920, BECKETT’S PARK’S HOSPITAL, LEEDS.
BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HE LEFT £195 TO SUPERINTENDANT, ALFRED GOODRUM, AND POLICE INSPECTOR, SEPTIMUS BROMBY.
He is commemorated on the Hull City Police Force Memorial Plaque, Priory Road Police station, Hull, unveiled on 21st January 1923.
HIS SON GEORGE SERVED WITH THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT & WAS POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 1ST SEPTEMBER 1915. HIS SON CHARLES ENLISTED UNDER AGE IN 1915 & SERVED IN EGYPY WITH THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS.
