BORN HULL 1880. A HULL PAL. SON OF BENJAMIN JARVIS & ELIZA JARVIS (1852-1894), OF 15 BURLEIGH PLACE, PROVIDENCE ROW, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL AND 9 WATERLOO TERRACE, WELLINGTON LANE, HULL. HUSBAND OF ADA, OF 2 SELKIRK STREET, HULL. FATHER, OF RICHARD, HAROLD AND ADA ALKIMIA
HE WORKED FOR THE HULL OIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, STONEFERRY, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (3RD HULL PALS). HE DIED OF ABDOMEN WOUNDS, ON 17/08/1916, AGED 36. HE LEFT A WIDOW, ADA, AND THREE CHILDREN. HIS PHOTOGRAPH AND DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON ON 21/08/1916.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, ARTHUR HAROLD JARVIS, 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 9TH AUGUST 1915, AGED 25.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE RICHARD JARVIS 12/11. Born in April 1880, Richard was the second of seven children to Benjamin and Eliza Jarvis. He married Ada Fisher in 1902 and the couple lived at 6 Penzance Terrace, Providence Row, Hull with their three children- Richard, Harold and Ada. A Fitter’s Labourer by trade he enlisted at City Hall on 14th September 1914, only the 11th man in the long queue to join the fledgling 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. Richard was wounded in the hip and abdomen and withdrawn to 1st Casualty Clearing Station where he died on 17th August 1916. He is buried in Choques Military Cemetery, France; he was 36 years old.
