Goldspink, Henry Dalton

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF HENRY & LYDIA ANN GOLDSPINK ABOVE 1911 CENSUS & 9 MINNIES TERRACE, WALLER STREET – 1901 CENSUS.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE HENRY DALTON GOLDSPINK 28054. Born 1898, the second of eight children and eldest son, of Henry and Lydia Goldspink of 9 Minnies Terrace, Waller Street, Hull. Henry Snr worked for a Timber Merchants in the city. Henry Jnr was killed in action during the fighting for Oppy Wood on 3rd May 1917, aged just 19. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. His father died less than a year later, leaving Lydia to raise her remaining seven children alone. The youngest at that point was 2. With no Welfare State it is virtually impossible to imagine how that could be done, but she managed.