BORN HULL 1886. SON OF WILLIAM ALFRED AND HANNAH HARPER, OF 203, REGENT STREET, HULL. OCCUPATION FISH WORKER AND LATER TRAM DRIVER.
HE MARRIED AT HULL ON 28/09/1913. HIS WIFE, EDITH PRISCILLA MORILL, & DAUGHTER EDITH HARPER, LIVED AT 4, BEECH GROVE, WESTBOURNE STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 27/10/1914. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH AND 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENTS. SENT TO FRANCE 10/06/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 30. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH WAR MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
PRIVATE WILLIAM HERBERT HARPER 14/84. Born in 1886 William was the second of four children and eldest son of William and Hannah Harper. A Tram Driver by trade, he married Edith Priscilla Morrill on 28th September 1913 and the couple lived at 4 Beech Grove, Westbourne Street, Hull, with their daughter Edith Jnr. When war came William answered the call of King & Country enlisting at City Hall in October 1914 joining the 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment before transferring to the 12th on his arrival in France in June 1916. He was killed in action at Beaumont Hamel on the Somme on 13th November 1916 and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery; he was 30 years old.
