Born 11 July 1881 • Church Lane, High Street, Hull. Son of Paul Aloysius Route (1855-1882) and Martha Train (1855-1941)
Orphaned when his father, a fisherman, drowned in a storm on 5 Dec 1882. He was raised at Spring Bank Orphanage where he was awarded certificates for good conduct and truthfulness.
Married in 30 January 1909 • Christ Church, Sculcoates, Hull.
A Hair dresser by trade. His Hairdresser residence was 30 Silvester Street, Hull. His wife Olive lived at 2 Seaton Street, Hull (1909).
He moved to London and enlisted there on 10 December 1914. He joined the Royal Sussex Regiment; Transferred to the Army Reserves on 19 February 1919, as a Sergeant in the Royal Engineers (inland water transport).
His wife and three children returned to Hull when war declared and by December 1914 she was living at 14 Woodbine Villas, Reynoldson Street, Hull.
Paul albert Route served as a specialist stretcher bearer and was awarded the Military Medal on 2 March 1917, for rescuing a wounded comrade in no man land under heavy shell fire. (17 April 1917 – Award of Military Medal -London Gazette).
He was invalided to England with Trench fever. Discharged from the Inland Water Transport, Royal Engineers, on 19 Feb 1919
He continued as a hairdresser after the war, and lived at 9, The Limes, Ella Street (1920) and 2, Spring Street, Hull (1923).
The papers report that his hair dressing business went bankrupt due to overheads and his time off work with war sickness (Hull Daily Mail 24/4/1928)
He died on 19 Oct 1929, at Hull Royal Infirmary, aged 48.
He left wife Olive Ann Kingdom 1884–1954, and three children, (Joan Paul and John) at 21, Colonial Street, Hull (War pension address). He left his hairdressing business to his son Paul.
