BORN GOXHILL, LINCS, 10/04/1884. LIVED IN HULL. SPN OF ISAAC JOHN FARROW (1844-1899) AND HARRIET SPITTLEHOUSE FARROW (1849-1884).
MARRIED AT GOXHILL, IN 1905. HIS WIFE ROSA AUDAS FARROW (1884-1935) AND THREE CHILDREN, LIVED AT 18, WESLEY SQUARE, BOOTHFERRY ROAD, HULL. HE RESIDED IN NEW HOLLAND BEFORE THE WAR AND WORKED IN THE GOODS DEPARTMENT, FOR THE GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED WITH THE 11TH EYR, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WOUNDED ON 28/06/18. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 11/07/1918, AGED 34. LEFT A WIDOW AND THREE CHILDREN. HE IS REMEMBERED ON THE DANSOM LANE MEMORIAL.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 27TH JULY 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE HERBERT FARROW 12/1535. Born in April 1884 in Goxhill, Lincolnshire Herbert was the son of Isaac and Mary Farrow. The family were farm hands by trade and Herbert a Horseman though he left the family and moved north of the Humber to Hull. He married Rosa Audas in October 1905 and the couple lived at 18 Wesley Square, Boothferry Road, Hull with their three children Louisa, Herbert and Ernest. When war came Herbert enlisted at Hull City Hall originally joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment before later transferring to the 11th when the two merged in February 1918. He fought in Egypt and on the Somme, survived Oppy Wood and Arras, and faced down the German Spring Offensive at Armentieres. Herbert was fatally wounded at La Becque on 28th June 1918 and withdrawn to the hospital centre at St. Omer where he died on 11th July. He is buried in Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery; 34 years old and a husband and father of three.
