BORN 1891 BEDLINGTON, NORTHUMBERLAND. SON OF THE LATE HARRY GARTH AND ROSABEL HUTCHINSON. BOTH PARENTS WERE DECEASED. HIS ONLY BROTHER JAMES LIVED 6, VICTORIA VILLAS, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A RULLEYMAN, AND EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, ROBINSON & SONS, UNDERTAKERS, WHERE HE WORKED IN THE LIVERY STABLES. MARRIED 11/05/1915. HIS WIFE, FLORENCE MARY ANN LINDER, LIVED 33, MIDLAND STREET, HULL, AND 31, BROOK STREET, HULL (HIS ARMY ADDRESS) AND 1, EMILY’S TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 11/12/1915. MOBILISED ON 10/04/1916. ARRIVED FRANCE, 13/07/1916. SERVING WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED IN THE SHOULDER ON 03/04/1917. WOUNDED BY GUNSHOT IN THE RIGHT THIGH ON 12/05/1917. DIED OF WOUNDS, O4/06/1918, AGED 27. HE IS BURIED AT ST SEVER MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HIS WIDOW MOVED TO 1. EMILY’S TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).