79 Main Street, Skidby. List the names of 42 men who served including 6 died in WW1
BORN SKIDBY 1897. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF THE LATE JOHN WILLIAM CHARLTON AND ELIZABETH (SPEAKE), OF SKIDBY, 38, WITHAM, HULL AND 84, BLENHEIM STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A FARM SERVANT. HE WAS SINGLE AND HAD NO CHILDREN. ENLISTED HULL ON 24/10/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT. SENT TO FRANCE, ON 08/03/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE SENT TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER. COMMEMORATED ON THE SKIDBY WW1 MEMORIAL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE THOMAS WILLIAM CHARLTON 12/1085. Born in January 1897, Thomas was the seventh of eight children and youngest son of John and Elizabeth Charlton, of Skidby, East Yorkshire. A Farm Servant by trade he enlisted at Hull City Hall on 24th October 1914 joining the fledgling 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. He’d given his date of birth as 1895- he was too young to serve. His secret was never uncovered and he served in Egypt before arriving in France in March 1916. Thomas William Charlton was listed as missing following the attack on Serre on 13th November 1916 and later confirmed as dead, one of the last casualties of the disastrous Somme campaign. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; he was 19 years old.
