BORN HULL 1890. SON OF JOHN INKERMAN HEDGES (1860-1931) AND KATE WREN (1860-1936), OF 16 GOODRICK TERRACE, CAVE STREET, HULL AND SCULCOATES LANE, HULL. SON OF A GARDNER. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN AND FOUR SONS WHO DIED DURING THE WAR. HE WORKED AS A GARDENER’S LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 2/6TH SHERWOOD FORESTER. HE MARRIED ETHEL BARKER AT HULL, IN 1917. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/09/1917, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS WIDOW ETHEL AT 22, ALBION STREET, HULL.
HIS BROTHERS, NOEL & FRANK HEDGES WERE KILLED IN ACTION. ANOTHER BROTHER GEORGE CHRISTOPHER HEDGES, DIED IN HULL, IN JULY 1915, AGED 26.
HE LEFT SISTERS, KATE, ALICE AND ESTHER AND A SURVIVING BROTHER, HERBERT, WHO ENLISTED ON 18/09/1917 AND SERVED AS A CLERK, IN THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT DEPOT, YORK.
TWO OTHER BROTHERS, JOHN WREN HEDGES, DIED IN 1906, AGED 11 AND ERIC FOSTER HEDGES DIED IN 1909, AGED 11, AND SISTER EDITH ISABELLA HEDGES DIED IN 1902, AGED 5.
