BORN HULL 1893, SON OF ROBERT GASCOIGNE HUTTON (1870-1914) & HARRIET STARK (1873-1912), OF 3 BROOKSIDE VILLAS, ST MARKS STREET, HULL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, WHILLIAM HENRY AND THREE SISTERS, OLIVE, HILDA AND ADA
A CELLAR MAN AND BLACK LEAD WORKS WORKER, AT MESSRS LAMBERT, BARKER & GAINS CO., MAY STREET. HIS ARMY RECORS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT, 3 INCHES TALL, 34-36 INCH CHEST, 114 LBS WEIGHT, CHURCH OF ENGLAND RELIGION.
HE MARRIED AT ST PETERS, HULL, ON 22/11/1913. HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH ANN BIBBY AND TWO DAUGHTER, IVY , LIVED AT 29 WARWICK STREET, HULL (1913), 9, BRIGHT TERRACE, BRIGHT STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS) AND 11, YORK TERRACE, PELHAM STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ANOTHER DAUGHTER, MURIEL, SADLY DIED PREMATURELY, IN 1917, AGED 16 DAYS.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 30/11/1915. TRAINED AT ASTLEY CAMP, WITHERNSEA. CHARGED FOR ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE, HESTITATING TO OBEY AN ORDER, HAVING A DIRTY RIFLE. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 22/12/1916. SERVED WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRES (HULL COMMEMRCIALS). KILLED IN ACTION, ON 05/11/1917, AGED 23.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 19TH NOVEMBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ROBERT GASCOIGNE HUTTON 22603. Born 1893, the eldest of six children to Robert and Harriet Hutton of 2 Brookside Villas, St. Mark’s Street, Hull. At the time of the 1911 Census, Robert was employed as a labourer in the Lead Works. He married Elizabeth Bibby in October 1913 and the couple moved into 9 Bright Terrace, Bright Street in the city. Robert took on a new job as a Cellar Man and didn’t sign up immediately at the onset of war. He finally enlisted in November 1915 as Conscription loomed and this may have played a part in his decision. He was called up in May 1916 and joined the Pals in France. Robert Gascoigne Hutton was killed in action on 5th November 1917 in the trenches opposite Arleux as winter set in. He was buried at Roclincourt Military Cemetery. He was 23 years old.
