BORN HULL 1892. SON OF WALTER GOVIER (1861-1945) & FLORENCE MARY LEWIS (1863-1937), OF 46 SCOTT STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS FROM SUSSEX. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN AT DOVER, KENT. SON OF A RAINT STRIKER AND DELAER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. HIS SISTERS WERE BOX MAKERS. HE WORKED AS A PAINT GRINDER.
HE MARRIED LUCY ANN CARTER (1893-1974), AT HULL, IN JULY 1913. HIS WIFE LUCY ANN (BORN 21/7/1893), LIVED AT 50, BEETON STREET, HULL AND 13, GERTRUDE TERRACE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE LEFT TWO CHILDREN, WALTER ALBERT AND ELIZABETH MARGERIE.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 27349, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 66TH MACHINE GUN CORPS. REPORTED MISSING, ON 22/03/1918, AGED 25. COMMEMORATED ON THE POZIERES MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, LUCY.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S SCOTT STREET. ROLL OF HONOUR WITH HIS BROTHER, PTE. BENJAMIN GOVIER, EYR & LATER LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT.
