EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT
Only son of Lilian Arnold, of 14, Worship St., Hull, and the late Robert Arnold.
BORN HULL 1896. ONLY SON OF LILLIAN & THE LATE ROBERT ARNOLD, OF 14 WORSHIP STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD 4 SISTERS. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. DIED OF INFLUENZA, ON 09/11/1918, AGED 22.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN WARD ARNOLD 12/1186. Born in 1896, John was the fourth of five children and only son of Robert and Lilian Arnold of 14 Worship Street, Hull. He enlisted at City Hall originally joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. He saw the war through playing his part in all the major set-pieces of the Pal’s war from Egypt to the Somme and Oppy Wood to the Spring Offensive. He transferred to the 11th when the battalions merged in February 1918 and continued to fight, turning the German advance around and playing his part in driving them back toward the Belgian border. Bullets, bombs and gas could not kill John, but Spanish Flu could. He died on 9th November 1918, two days from the Armistice. He is buried in Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery; he was 22 years old.
