BORN HULL 1888. SON OF MARK HOTCHKIN (1864-1930) & MINNIE HOTCHKIN (1868-1951), OF 7 SOPHIA’S TERRACE. SPYVEE STREET, HULL.
HUSBAND OF EVELYN MARSDEN (1894-1979), OF 2 CROFTON AVENUE, EGTON STREET, HULL. A FORMER RECKITTS WORKER, HE LIVED AT 3 STUDLEY STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 35-37 INCH CHEST, 134 LBS WEIGHT. MARRIED EVELYN, AT DRYPOOL CHURCH, HULL, ON 06/03/1915 AND MOVED TO 2 CROFTON AVENUE, EGTON STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS AND WAS KILLED WITH HIS BROTHER, FRED HOTCHKIN, IN THE SAME ATTACK, AT SERRE. HIS PENSION WENT TO HIS WIDOW AND SON ROBERT (1915-2001).
Hull Pals Memorial Posts. PRIVATES ERNEST AND FRED HOTCHKIN 12/1225 and 12/1226. Ernest was born in 1888 and his brother Fred in 1894. They were two of six children to Mark and Minnie Hotchkin, of 7 Sophias Terrace, Spyvee Street, Hull. Ernest married Evelyn Tride on March 6th 1915 and the couple had a son, Robert, who will never have known his father. Ernest and Fred had queued together outside City Hall on 21st December 1914 and joined the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. They trained together, served in Egypt together, and died together on 13th November 1916 on the Somme. They are still out there together as neither brother was ever found and their names are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing. Two telegrams arrived together on the same morning. Heartbreaking. Ernest was 28 years old and Fred was aged 23.
Serre, 13th November 1916 | Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914 – 1918 (ww1hull.com)
