BORN HULL 17/12/1894. (AKA AS PTE. A. O. JARRATT). SON OF ARTHUR & MARY JARRETT – 26 FOUNTAIN ROAD AND 1, LINNAEUS STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A CLERK FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS, AT FERRYBRIDGE.
JOINED THE HULL PALS. ENLISTED 17/09/1915. SERVED IN EGYPT. ARRIVED FRANCE, ON 08/03/1916. REPORTED WOUNDED IN SEVERAL PLACES AND MISSING 13/11/1916, AGED 22. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE SENT TO HIS MOTHER. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY MAGAZINE, VOLUME 7 NO 73, JANUARY 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE OSWIN ARTHUR JARRETT. Born on 17th December 1894, Oswin was the son of Arthur and Mary Jarrett of 26 Fountain Road, Hull. He was baptised in St. Paul’s, Sculcoates on 20th March 1895. A Clerk by trade he enlisted in July 1915 originally in the 14th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment before transferring to the 12th in time to sail from Devonport bound for Alexandria, Egypt in December. He served defending Suez until late February 1916 when the Pals left for France and the trenches of the Western Front.
Oswin is the last to be remembered of 138 men killed while serving with the 12th Battalion at Beaumont Hamel as part of the Battle of the Ancre, the final phase of the Somme campaign on 13th November 1916. There is a footnote to his war records.
“Death not confirmed. 2nd Lt AJ Edwards states 14529 Private, J Vickers was with this man at 8pm on 13/11/1916. He was then suffering from wounds in several places. I consider this man should be reported missing there being no evidence that he was killed.”
Oswin’s body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
