BORN HULL 1890. SON OF ANNIE & THOMAS GILL, OF 8, CLARENCE AVENUE, EXCHANGE STREET, HULL. A DOCK LABOURER.
HIS WIFE MABEL, LIVED AT 2, LILLIAN TERRACE, WOODHOUSE STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, HAROLD, DOROTHY AND FRANCIS THOMAS.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE 12TH EYR (3RD HULL PALS). DIED OF TYPHOID FEVER CONTRACTED ON ACTIVE SERVICE, ON 03/11/1914, AGED 24.
HIS WIDOW MABEL MARRIED VALENTINE WILKINSON RASPON ON 24/12/1917. HE WAS A DISCHARGED EYR SOLDIER. THEY MOVED TO 3, NORMAN TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE THOMAS GILL 12/862. Born in 1890. Thomas was the eldest of three children to Thomas and Annie Gill. His younger brother Harold had died in 1904, and Thomas Snr followed in 1910, so when Thomas married Mabel Pearson on 13th August 1910, they set up home moving Annie and Thomas’s younger sister in with them at 10 Wansley Terrace, Clifton Street, Hull. The couple named their firstborn after Thomas’s lost brother, Harold, and in total they had three children- Harold, Dorothy and Francis. A Dock Labourer by trade, he signed up to fight for King and Country on 3rd October 1914, but I doubt he was even fitted for a uniform. Thomas Gill died of Typhoid Fever in Hull Sanitorium on 3rd November 1914 and is buried in Western Cemetery; he was 24 years old.
