BORN HULL 1900. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY HART AND GERTRUDE MAUD FOSTER. THE FAMILY LIVED WEST END COTTAGES, WEST GATE, BRIDLINGTON, AND 2 WALKER’S YARD, KIRKGATE, BRIDLINGTON. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HIS HULL ARMY ADDRESS WAS 2 JOSEPH PLACE, YORK STREET, HULL. A LABOURER. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE BRITISH OIL AND CAKE COMPANY, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 05/06/1915, AGED 15, BUT CLAIMING TO BE 19 YEARS OLD. HE WAS 5 FOOT, 2 INCHES TALL, 120 LBS WEIGHT, 33 INCH CHEST SIZE. HE SERVED IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, “C” COMPANY, 9TH PLATOON. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 21/12/1915, AT ROUEN. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/06/1916, ALMOST A YEAR AFTER HE HAD JOINED. HIS AGE WAS 16, BUT HIS RECORDS STATE THAT THE WAS 20 YEARS OLD.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 16/7/1916.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MOTHER, MRS GERTRUDE MAUD FOSTER, WHO MOVED TO BOWSERS LANE, BRANDSBURTON, EAST YORKSHIRE.
HIS BROTHER, GEORGE HERBERT HART WAS ALSO KILLED IN ACTION.
