BORN HULL 1890. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM HUNT & ANNIE ELIZABETH HAYTON, THIS ADDRESS. MARRIED RUTH NAYLOR IN 1911. HAD A DAUGHTER WINIFRED HUNT (1893–1933). EMPLOYED WITH HULL’S NER. ENLISTED HULL. LISTED AS KILLED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL 16/12/1916. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS WIDOW, RUTH. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS OLDER BROTHER, PTE, ALBERT EDWARD HUNT, 10TH EYR WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/09/1918, AGED 31.
First name:
HERBERT WILLIAM
Military Number:
27777
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
05/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
26
