BORN HULL 1891. SON OF EDWARD JAMES AND CLARA OLLETT, OF NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL, 1, CAMBRIDGE ST. WITHERNSEA and 36, LABURNUM AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION SERVING WITH THE 11th EYR (HULL PALS), ON 26/07/1917, AGED 26.
HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON HULL’S, NEW GEORGE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 03 November 1917) .
HE WAS ALSO LISTED ON HULL’S, KINGS HALL CHURCH ROLL OF HONOUR, WITH BROTHER HAROLD OLLETT, SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS, KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/04/1917.
THEIR DEPENDENT SISTER MISS EDITH MAY OLLETT CLAIMED BOTH THEIR WAR PENSIONS, AT 1, CAMBRIDGE ST. WITHERNSEA (WAR PENSION RECORDS).
Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL ROBERT OLLETT 11/691. Born in Hull in April 1891, Robert was the fourth of eight children to Edward and Clara Ollett of 1 Cammidge Street, Withernsea. A Labourer by trade, he enlisted on Tuesday 8th September 1914 at Hull City Hall joining the newly formed 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. A veteran of Egypt, the Somme and Oppy Wood Robert was killed in action 26th July 1917 at Vimy Ridge and buried at Bumble Trench Cemetery; he was 26 years old. The family had endured more tragedy than most. Edward and Clara Ollett had buried three of their children prior to 1914, Henry (1905), Wilman (1909) and Thomas (1913); worse still, they had lost their son Harold to the war, killed in action on 8th April 1917 serving with the 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. The news of Robert’s death must have been a hammer blow. Horrendous.
