BORN HULL 1881. YOUNGEST CHILD OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLBROOK (1844-1885) AND LUCY MEEK (1844-1912) OF 1, REGENT PLACE, UPPER UNION STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 10, SPENCER SQUARE, SPENCER STREET, HULL.
HE WAS A HULL DOCK LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 16/03/1915. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIEMENT. EMBARKED FROM SOUTHAMPTON, TO FRANCE, ON 28/04/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 1ST JULY 1916, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. AGED 34. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS ELDER SISTER, GERTRUDE (1874-1945) AND BROTHER, WALTER (1878-1963). MISS GERTRUDE HOLBROOK, LIVED AT 1, SUNBEAM TERRACE, BURLEIGH STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. SHE WAS REFUSED A WAR PENSION FOR “NO PRIOR DEPENDENCE”. (WAR PENSION RECORDS)
HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON THE SCOTT STREET MEMORIAL, AS PTE. W H HOLBROOK, EYR, (HULL DAILY MAIL, 09/10/1916).
IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, WILLIAM HENRY HOLBROOK IS ON THE RIGHT OF THE PICTURE, WITH HIS BROTHER, WALTER ERNEST HOLBROOK.
