BORN HULL 1887. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM EARLEY (1861-1940) & MARY ALICE DREWERY (1864-1941) OF 226, WATERLOO STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A BAKER AND CONFECTIONER.
HE MARRIED IN 1916. HIS WIFE, MARY HANNAH HYDE, LIVED IN PONTEFRACT (CWGC). THEY HAD ONE SON, FREDERICK, BORN 13/03/1917.
HE ENLISTED IN PONTEFRACT. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF EURPYENIA, AT THE 4TH SCOTTISH GENERAL HOSPITAL, GLASGOW, ON 09/05/1918, AGED 31. BURIED AT HULL HEDON ROAD CEMETERY, AGED 31. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “ETERNAL REST GIVE UNTO HIM O LORD LOVING WIFE MARY & SON FRED”.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH WW1 MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARY.
Son of George William and Mary Earley, of 226, Waterloo St., Hull; husband of Mary Hannah Earley, of 4, Driver’s Terrace, Wakefield Rd., Pontefract, Yorks (War Pension Address).
