BORN DALSTON, LONDON 05/10/1886. ELDEST SON OF DANIEL HENRY HUSSEY (1866-1939) AND EDITH NEEDLER (1866-1913). HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN HACKNEY, EAST LONDON. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN HULL. HIS STEP MOTHER MARGARET, LIVED AT 1 SIDMOUTH STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, WILFRED AND WILLIE NEEDLER HUSSEY.
A FORMER BLUNDELL’S. WORKER, IN HULL. HE MARRIED IN 1910. WIFE LILLIAN L’ANSON AND FIVE CHILDREN, LIVED 28 SISSONS STREET, 13 FREDS TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET & 177 , SCULCOATES LANE, HULL AND 64 CHURCH STREET, DRYPOOL, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE TRIED TO ENLIST ON 10/12/1915 – BUT WAS CLASSED AS UNFIT WITH EXTENSIVE SCARRING ON THE RIGHT THIGH DUE TO AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT. HE WAS 5 FOOT 6 INCHES TALL WITH ONLY A ‘FAIR’ PHYSIQUE. HE RE-ENLISTED AND WAS MOBILIZED IN HULL ON 5/06/1917. JOINED REGIMENT IN FRANCE ON 7/11/1917. WOUNDED BY SHELL ON LEFT CALF ON 5/12/1917 AND AGAIN GUNSHOT IN THE LEFT LEG ON 14/01/1918. RETURNED TO ENGLAND. DIED OF TETNUS WOUNDS AT HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY ON 1/05/1918, AGED 31. HIS NAME IS RECORDED AT ST MARY CHURCH, SCULCOATES LANE. BURIED HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY.
HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS WIDOW, LILIAN WHO MOVED TO 64, CHURCH STREET, DRYPOOL.
