BORN HULL 1886. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM HUNT & ANNIE ELIZABETH HAYTON, THIS ADDRESS. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST MARY’S CHURCH MEMORIAL, LOWGATE.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ALBERT EDWARD HUNT 12/65. Born in 1886, Albert was the fourth of five children to John and Ann Hunt. An Electric Crane Driver by trade, he had married Ethel Lowe and the couple lived at 1 Providence Place, Woods Lane, Hull where they raised two children Arthur (1909) and Lily May (1911). One of the original Pals, Albert had queued to join the new battalions enlisting at City Hall on 11th September 1914. He trained throughout Yorkshire in 1915 and sailed for Egypt that December where he helped defend the Suez Canal from the Turks before finally arriving in France in early 1916. It appears life in the trenches had taken its toll on him mentally for he went AWOL from camp in Withernsea on 19th November 1917, ditching all his kit and making a run for it. He was caught and charged before being returned to the front line. Albert was killed in action on 29th September 1918 during the attack on Ploegsteert Wood and is buried at Underhill Farm Cemetery in Belgium. John Hunt had lost his wife in 1913 and the war had already claimed his youngest son Herbert William Hunt, who died on the Somme in November 1916.
