BORN HULL 1885. SON OF DANIEL & MARGARET PARTIS. HIS LATE FATHER WAS REVEREND AT ST PAULS CHURCH, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A SAWMILL LABOURER. HE WORKED FOR MESSR, NEWSUM & SONS, GARSIDE. HE MARRIED IN 1909. HIS WIFE FLORENCE TABITHA LOFT, LIVED AT 12 HANNAHS TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN,THE ELDEST ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. LEFT ENGLAND ON 14/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 30.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 11/08/1915. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS WIDOW, WHO LATER REMARRIED, AND BECAME FLORENCE BATLEY.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL, TURKEY. HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE SPYVEE STREET, HODGSON STREET & ON ST MARKS STREET MEMORIAL.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, DANIEL PARTIS, 13/1418, 11TH EYR, DIED OF WOUNDS ON 30/03/1918, AGED 20.
