BORN HULL 15/04/1894. ELDEST SON OF ROBERT DUKES (1870-1940) & PATIENCE VIVIAN TREZISE (1871-1951), OF 13 HOPWOOD STREET, HULL AND 42 PEEL STREET, HULL. BROTHER TO MARY JANE AND MICHEL DUKES. HE MARRIED ELIZABETH NORMAN (1887-1965), IN SEPTEMBER 1915. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN, AND LIVED AT 36 CAVE STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS 06/01/1922). HE WAS A POSTMAN, BEFORE THE WAR.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 21/06/1915. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 14/05/1916. WOUNDED AND TAKEN PRISON. AWARDED THE SILVER WOUND BADGE AND DISCHARGED IN 1919. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 05/01/1922. BURIED AT HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY. HIS NAME IS LISTED AS DIED ON CLIFTON STREET SCHOOL ROLL OF HONOUR. NO CWGC RECORD. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 06/01/1922.
I am grateful to Dave Richardson for the following information.
The plaque at Clifton School was put up by the Old Cliftonians Sports and Social Club, so the individuals will probably have been known to the organisers and their deaths linked to their injuries/illness sustained in the war.
George Dukes – died 5th January 1922, Death notice in Hull Daily Mail 6th January 1922.
George Dukes enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery (Service number 755684) on 21/06/1915. At some point he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was discharged from the Army on 28/02/1919 and was awarded the Silver War Badge (discharged from army because of serious wounds making him unfit for service). The Sliver War Badge Roll originally had him discharged from Hospital, but this has been manually amended to “P. of W. Rec Camp Riponâ€. His death three years later may have been linked to the wounds he received.
