BORN HULL 1897. SON THE LATE THOMAS & MARGARET HACKETT, THIS ADDRESS AND 5 HESSLE PLACE, PORTER STREET. A DOCK LABOURER. ENLISTED HULL. 07/09/1914. EX 12049, EYR. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 104 LIBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST, BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR, PALE COMPLEXION. SERVED IN MALTA FROM 17/08/1915. ARRIVED FRANCE, 04/05/1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AS LANCE CORPORAL ON 18/06/1916. WOUNDED IN ACTION, 17/07/1917. REJOINED UNIT ON 12/09/1917. KILLED IN ACTION, 09/10/1917, AGED 23. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS FATHER THOMAS. HIS SISTER MARY ANN LIVED AT 47 WEST PARADE, HULL. JAMES HACKETT IS COMMEMORATED AT THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL. HIS NAME APPEARS ON THE ST CHARLES CHURCH MEMORIAL, AND ON THE GIBSON STREET ROLL OF HONOUR.
Hackett, James
First name:
JAMES
Military Number:
23048
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
09/10/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
23
5 FEATHERSTONS ENTRY, HIGH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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