BORN HULL 1886. ONLY SON OF NORRISON STATHER & MARGARET CRACROFT, OF 68, CLEVELAND STREET, HULL, 29, WENLOCK STREET, HULL, 36, HUNTINGDON STREET, HULL AND 228, SOUTH BOULEVARD, HULL AND LATER 27, WHITECROSS STREET, BARTON UPON HUMBER (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). HE HAD ONE SISTER, SARAH ANN STATHER.
A MARRIED MAN, LIVING AT 37, MORRILL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). FORMER EMPLOYEE OF HOLDERNESS ROAD CARS.
HE ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN THE HULL COMMERCIALS. PROMOTED TO SERGEANT, IN THE 10TH EYR. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. REPORTED MISSING AND KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 32. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL (MM) FOR BRAVERY.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 13TH DECEMBER 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS WIDOW REMARRIED ON 22/12/1924 AND BECAME ELLEN DODMAN. HIS WAR PENSION WAS CLAIMED BY HIS MOTHER, MARGARET, WHO CHANGED ADDRESS FREQUENTLY.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. SERGEANT JOHN NORRISON STATHER 10/205. Born 1886, the only son of Norrison and Margaret Stather of 68 Cleveland Street, Hull. John was among the first to enlist for the 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, the first of the Hull Pals units, in the early days of September 1914 and had fought in Egypt and France being a veteran of bloody campaigns on the Somme and at Oppy Wood. He had risen to the rank of Sergeant and had been awarded the Military Medal for his bravery under fire. By the time of his death on 12th April 1918, John would have been a seasoned soldier well used to shelling and machine guns; he would have witnessed sights that no man should ever see, and borne them all because he had to. John Norrison StatherÂ’s body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial. He was 32 years old.
