BORN HEMPHOLME, YORKS, 1896. SON OF ELIZA FAIRBANK (JUDGE) & TOM FAIRBANK (STEPFATHER) AT 65, NICHOLSON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. DIED OF INFLUENZA, ON 26/10/1918, AGED 22. BURIED IN FRANCE, HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION READS, “NO ONE KNOWS HOW MUCH WE MISS HIM ONLY ACHING HEARTS CAN TELL”
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN WILLIAM JUDGE 11/529. Born in 1896 in Hempholme, East Yorkshire John was the son of John and Eliza Judge of 5 Elen’s Terrace, Fountain Road, Hull. He enlisted during the second week of September 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. One of the Originals he served in Egypt before shipping to France in March 1916 where he fought on the Somme, at Oppy Wood and during the German Spring Offensive. In the end it was not war which killed him, but Spanish Flu. John died on 26th October 1918 and is buried in Pont-De-Nieppe Communal Cemetery; he was 22 years old.
