BORN HESSLE 1897. SON OF ERNEST CHARLES & JANE JESSOP OF 7 GEORGE YARD, HIGH STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND CLIFF ROAD, HESSLE. EMPLOYED BY THE HULL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. E ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, IN 1914. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 21. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE GEORGE HERBERT JESSUP 10/708. Born 1897, the eldest of three children, to Walter and Julia Jessup of Hessle, Hull. The family ran a shop in the village and George worked there as a Grocer’s Assistant. When war came he rushed to enlist and queued in those long uneven lines of September 1914 to join the fledgling Pals Battalion. He was a veteran of Egypt, the Somme and Oppy Wood and had no doubt grown accustomed to the shellfire, barbed wire, machine guns, midnight raids in No Man’s Land, gas attacks, strafes from the skies above and the constant loss of friends and comrades that had been his life for two years. He was killed in action on 12th April 1918, near the French village of Bethune, whilst fighting with C Company in an attempt to hold the line against the onslaught of the German Spring Offensive. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial. He was 21 years old.
