BORN HULL 1884. AN ORIGINAL HULL PAL. EX RECKITTS (STARCH & BLUE WORKS) (1911) AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY WORKER. SON OF WILLIAM AND JANE ANDREWS, AT 85, BRIGHT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 10, BALFOUR STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). 19, BALFOUR STREET, IS THE ADDRESS FROM THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WHERE HE WAS REPORTED MISSING, ON 6TH JANUARY 1917. HE WAS LATER CONFIRMED AS KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 32. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HIS SITER MYRA EASTER LOST HER HUSBAND, JAMES EASTER, IN THE WAR.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES WILLIAM ANDREWS 12/1141. Hard to be certain due to number of men in Hull with this name of military age, but I believe our James was born in 1884 the eldest son of Joseph and Jane Andrews of 19 Balfour Street, Hull. What I do know for sure is that he enlisted at City Hall in 1915 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. I know too that fate led him to front line trenches opposite the remains of the French village of Serre in the misty silence of the morning of 13th November 1916, and that he trudged through mud up to his waist in places to attack German positions there in what was the last pointless action of the Somme campaign. I know too that he died that day and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery. If this was our man, he was 32 years old.
Andrews, James William
First name:
JAMES WILLIAM
Military Number:
12/1141
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Euston Road Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France
Age:
32
