BORN BEVERLEY 1883. SON OF WILLIAM WREGHETT ACKRILL AND ELIZA GREGG, OF 6 SEVERNTO AVENUE, WOODHOUSE STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL. A DOCK LABOURER. MARRIED GRIMSBY 12/09/1916. WIFE VIOLET MAUDE DE ST CROIX (HEWSON) AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN HAROLD AND CHRISTINA LIVED AT THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS ON 21/11/1914, AGED 30. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5 INCHES TALL, 145 LBS WEIGHT, 37 INCH CHEST SIZE. TRAINED AT BEVERLEY AND RIPON, YORKSHIRE. SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (4TH HULL PALS), IN EGYPT. ARRIVED FRANCE, ON 08/03/1916. WOUNDED IN LEFT EYE AND BACK AT THE BATTLE OF SERRE. DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 33, AT BOULOGNE HOSPITAL. HIS WIFE WAS AWARED A WEEKLY PENSION OF 22 SHILLING AND 11 PENCE, FOR HERSELF AND TWO CHILDREN ON 28/05/1917. HE LEFT THREE BORTHERS AND A SISTER, ALL LIVING IN HULL.
NB: JAMES ACKRILL, RGA -12 BRUNSWICK TERRACE
