BORN HULL 20/06/1892. SON OF HARRY KAY (1858-1 1928) & SARAH ANN BIRCH (1857-1940), OF 7, LUCAS SQUARE, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS.
HE WAS A SPECIAL RESERVE IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. DISCHARGED ONCE, BUT PATRIOTICALLY REJOINED THE COLOURS, IN AUGUST 1916 AND POSTED TO FRANCE IN DECEMBER, 1916. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/04/1917, AGED 26. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, HARRY. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/04/1917. *
HERBERT KAY IS BURIED AT ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “IN LIFE DEARLY LOVED IN DEATH DEEPLY MOURNED”
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, FRED KAY, 13TH EYR, WAS KILLED, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/16, AGED 23. HE IS LISTED ON HULL’S, MARFLEET ROLL OF HONOUR.
