BORN HULL 1878. LIVED HULL. ENLISTED MANCHESTER. A PROFFESIONAL SOLDIER AND RETIRED RESERVIST WHEN WAR BEGAN. HE SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE 2ND HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 14/08/1914, WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. KILLED AT LOOS, ON 25/09/1915, AGED 37. HIS ARMY EFFECTS, WERE LEFT TO HIS NEXT OF KIN, MISS GLADY […]
19 JEWELLERY GOLD SHOP, LOWGATE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
16/06/1916
Aged
28
BORN HULL 1888. ELDEST SON OF ROBERT & JESSIE ELIZA WHO LIVED ABOVE WITH 8 CHILDREN IN 1901 & LATER DAVENPORT AVENUE, HESSLE. SON OF A GOLDSMITH. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE SERVED AS PRIVATE, 22292, 2ND HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/06/1916, AGED 28. HE LEFT £51 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER. HIS NAME IS ON HYMERS COLL […]
BORN HULL 27/06/1896. SON OF JOSEPH HENRY & ADA M SOLLITT. SERVED IN THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 04/08/1916, AGED 20. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DETAILS ARE LISTED IN SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS AS BORN IN HULL. ENLISTED YORK. (1901 CENSUS ADDRESS)
