BORN LIVERPOOL 1894. SON OF HOHN HYAMS (1835-1891) AND ANN HARBACH SMITH (1843-1885). HE HAD FOUR SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS. HE WAS LIVING IN HALIFAX (1891 CENSUS) AND PETERBOROUGH IN 1897. HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD.
HE MARRIED SARAH ANN WOOD, AT ST PETERS, PETERBOROUGH, ON 20/10/1897, AGED 22. HIS WIFE WAS BORN IN MANCHESTER, ON 10/2/1880 AND WAS OLDER. THEY HAD TWO SONS, HORACE REUBEN HYAMS, BORN 10/1/1905 AND HOMER ROY HYAMS, BORN ON 21/3/1908. HE MOVED TO HULL AND LIVED AT 7, ELIZAS TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL (1911 CENSUS & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED INDEPENDENTLY AS A CHINA REPAIRER.
ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EYR. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 03/05/1915, AGED 21. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS WIFE WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 22 SHILLINGS. SHE REMARRIED – SERGEANT, W. GRAY, 27230, WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 5TH MAY 1918.
HIS BROTHER, JOSEPH (BERT) HYAMS, EMIGATED TO NEW ZEALAND AND SERVED WITH THE 1ST AUCKLAND REGIMENT DURING WW1. HIS OTHER BROTHER, HOMER HYAMS EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA, IN 1916.
