BORN BROUGH 1885. HULL PAL. SON OF WILLIAM & ANNIE ELIZABETH TOCK, OF 21, LOCKWOOD STREET, HULL. ELEVEN MEMBERS OF THE TOCK FAMILY SERVED IN THE WAR, INCLUDING HIS SEVEN BROTHERS. HE WAS A FORMER BLACKSMITH.
HUSBAND OF BEATRICE ELLEN (COOKE) & FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN (SYDNEY, EVA, BAETRICE AND HAROLD), AT 32, ST PAULS STREET, HULL & 9, MARY ELLEN TERRACE, ST PAUL’S STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 22/6.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS AND SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE WITH THE 12TH EYR. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR SEVEN MONTHS BEFORE HE WAS KILLED DURING AN ENEMY BOMBARDMENT. HIS PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 05/06/1916. *
HIS NAME WAS ALSO LISTED ON THE LOCKWOOD STREET MEMORIAL AND THE MARY ELLEN TERRACE, ST PAUL STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS BROTHER RAYMOND TOCK, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/04/1917.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE HAROLD WILLIAM TOCK 12/1501. Born in Brough, East Yorkshire in 1885 Harold was the third of eleven children to William and Annie Tock of 10 Egginton Street, Hull. A Blacksmith by trade, he married Beatrice Ellen Cooke in December 1907 and the couple lived at 8 Mary Ellen Terrace with their three children Sydney, Eva and Harold. Harold enlisted at City Hall joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. He was killed in action on 27th May 1916 and buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery; he was 31 years old. Beatrice Tock lost her youngest son two years later and died in 1978 having outlived all her children.
