BORN HULL 05/04/1885. SON OF THOMAS BUSBY (1846-1908) & ELIZABETH BRADBURY (1852-1889), OF 22, NEW PARADE, SUTTON BANK, DANSOM LANE, HULL. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HIS THREE BROTHERS, BILL, SAM AND JOEL, LIVED AT 11, GLADYS GROVE, COURTNEY STREET, WITH HIS MARRIED SISTER, EDITH LYONS. HIS OTHER MARRIED SISTER, ALICE DRAPER, LIVED AT 214, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL.
HIS MOTHER DIED IN CHILDBIRTH. HE WAS ADOPTED BY A KINDLY NEIGHBOUR- EMILY BOGG, OF 25, NEW PARADE, DANSOM LANE, WHO ALSO DIED IN CHILDBIRTH WHEN HE WAS YOUNG.
HE MARRIED IN 1907. HIS WIFE, ANNIE LOUISA WILSON (1888-1982) & 3 CHILDREN LIVED, AT 107, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS), 2 BLANCHE GROVE, COURTNEY STREET AND 5, JAMES RECKITT AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, ERNEST, HILDA AND GEORGE. HE WORKED AS A SAW MILL LABOURER FOR RECKITTS.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED WITH THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. HE WAS KILLED, AT ARRAS ON 28/06/1917, AGED 32.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN BUSBY, DIED AT OPPY WOOD, ON 03/05/1917, AGED 28. NEITHER BODY WAS RECOVERED. THEY ARE BOTHE COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL, TO THE MISSING, FRANCE.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WALTER PERCY BUSBY 11/1309. Born in June 1885, Walter was one of thirteen children to Thomas and Elizabeth Busby both deceased by the outbreak of war. Walter married Annie Louisa Wilson in September 1907 and the couple resided at 107 Courtney Street, Hull with their three children. A Labourer by trade, he enlisted at City Hall joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. A veteran of Egypt, the Somme and Oppy Wood Walter was killed in action on 28th June 1917 and his body was never recovered. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; he was 32 years old. His name rests under that of his younger brother John who was killed in action on 3rd May 1917 at Oppy Wood and also never found. There are photographs showing the two brothers and Walter with his family.
