BORN HULL, 1895. NEWINGTON. SON OF JAMES GARYBURN (1857-1907) & MARY ANNIE GRAYBURN, OF 10 ARTHUR TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL AND 105 SELBY STREET (CWGC ADDRESS) . HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. ONE OF THREE BROTHERS KILLED IN THE WAR.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM GRAYBURN 11561. He was born in 1895, the sixth of eight children to James and Mary Ann Grayburn of 7 Talbot Terrace, Toogood Street, Hull. An Errand Boy on the 1911 Census, William enlisted in his home town and was sent to the Pals in the trenches of the Western Front. He was fatally injured during the fighting around Soyer Farm and died of wounds on 26th September 1918. William was buried at Pont-D’Achelles Military Cemetery; he was 23 years old. I think too that William’s death merely compounded the misery of his parents. His brother John had been killed in action on 20th July 1917 while fighting with the 13th Battalion. His other brother George was killed on the same day with the Border Regiment on 26/09/1918.
THE THREE SONS LOST WERE
PRIVATE, GEORGE GRAYBURN, 4390, 5TH BORDER REGIMENT WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/09/1916, AGED 34.
PRIVATE, JOHN GRAYBURN, 13/775, 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/07/1917, AGED 27.
PRIVATE, WILLIAM GRAYBURN, 11561, 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 26/09/1918, AGED 22.
