BORN HULL 09/12/1894. SON OF WILLIAM ISSAC CHAPMAN KING POMFREY (1868-1942) & SELINA DAWSON (1868-1929). KNOWN AS ARTHUR POMFREY. THIRD OF THREE SONS. SON OF A MILLER LABOURER. HE WORKED AS A CLERK IN AN OIL MILL OFFICE.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED AS SERGEANT 11/937, IN THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. COMMISSIONED AS SECOND LIEUTENANT, 9TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 04/10/1918, AGED 23. THIS WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE LEFT £240 TO HIS FATHER WILLIAM
HE IS BURIED AT VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS ELDEST BROTHER, WILLIAM DIED IN INFANCY. HIS OTHER BROTHER, HERBERT POMFREY WAS A GROCERS ASSISTANT AND THEN A GOOD’S PORTER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS, IN 1915 AND SURVIVED THE WAR.
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2nd Lieutenant James Arthur Pomfrey.
9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 October 1918.The following biographical notes are provided by Robert coulson in his Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;- “James Pomfrey first served in the ranks of the East Yorkshire regiment before gaining his commission. For the first half of 1918 the 9th battalion were serving on the Italian front and returned to France on September 15th where 2nd Lt Pomfrey and the battalion assembled at St Riquier east of Abbeville. They then moved to billets in Albert before going up by route march to Templeux Le Guerard. Orders were received to attack and capture the village of Beaurevoir and the high ground beyond it. James Pomfrey and the 9th Battalion attacked on October 4th going in against strong and well sited German positions. The attack was partially successful but “casualties were heavy”. 2nd Lt James Arthur Pomfrey was wounded in this attack and died later in the day, October 4th 1918.” |
