BORN BRADFORD 1884. SON OF GEORGE EDWIN AND EVA ROO, OF BRADFORD AND HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL PALS). ATTACHED 1/4TH WEST RIDING REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 30/06/1916, AGED 32. BEFORE ENLISTING, HE WORKED AT ALBERT DOCK, HULL. HE LIVED AT 9 ELDERADO AVENUE, SCARBOROUGH STREET, HULL . HIS DEATH, ADDRESS AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 21/07/1916. * HE IS BURIED AT DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “MAKE THEM TO BE NUMBERED WITH THY SAINTS IN GLORY EVERLASTING.”
HIS ELDER BROTHER, CHARLES ROO, , LIVED AT 8 ELIZABETH TERRACE HULL. ANOTHER BROTHER, SERGEANT, JAMES ROO, MM, 10TH EYR, LIVED AT 4 ELDERADO TERRACE, SCARBOROUGH STREET AND WAS KILLED 15/08/1918.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ARTHUR ROO 12/869. Born in 1884 in Bradford, Arthur was the fourth of five children to George and Sarah Roo. The family appears to have been pretty much cursed, although with disease and squalor rife in the cities in the Victorian Age, many families shared similar fates. Sarah Roo died in 1887, and her youngest son, Fred, soon after; George followed in 1911. Arthur moved to Hull with his sister and brother-in-law. They lived at 92 Walcott Street and he made his living as a Dock Labourer. When the war came he enlisted at City Hall joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. Arthur Roo was fatally wounded in the right arm and thigh on 30th June 1916, and although he was evacuated to 19th Casualty Clearing Station, he bled to death before doctors could save him and was buried in Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension; he was 32. The family tragedy was complete when his elder brother, James, was killed in action in Flanders on 15th August 1918.
