BORN HULL. SON OF REBECCA WELBOURNE (1847-1918) AND WILLIAM HALDENBY (1843-1915), OF LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL AND 5 VILLAGE PLACE, OSBORNE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS LOST AT SEA DURING THE WAR. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HIS SISTER MRS POSKITT LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. A BOTTLE CLEANER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. LEFT FOR THE DARDENELLES, ON 14/07/1915. KILLED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 23. COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER REBECCA, AND SISTER, KATE GRANTHAM.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 19TH OCTOBER 1915. *
HIS MOTHER HAD LOST HER HUSBAND AND SON IN 1915 WITHIN A MONTH OF EACH OTHER. SHE DIED ON 14/05/1918, AGED 71.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, 7490, WILLIAM HALDENBY, SERVED WITH THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRES. HIS BROTHER, FRED HALDENBY, SERVED AS PRIVATE, 521, 11TH EAST YORKSHIRES.
