BORN BIRMINGHAM, 1888. SON OF EMILY & THE LATE AUGUSTINE JAMES KELLY, OF 55, GREAT UNION STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS), 8, BRIGHT TERACE, BRIGHT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND PICKERING HOMES, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN NORTHERN IRELAND. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS, PATRICK, EDWARD AND JAMES AND TWO SISTERS, KATE & MARY
MARRIED AT STOURTON, LEEDS, ON 27TH JANUARY 1913, AGED 26. HUSBAND OF FLORENCE KELLY, OF 12, ATKINSON STREET, STOURTON, LEEDS (CWGC ADDRESS). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, FLORENCE, THOMAS AND JOHN EDWARD KELLY. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED WITH THE 2ND WORCESTSHIRE REGIMENT FOR 3 YEARS (PAPERS MISSING). HE WAS A LABOURER IN THE BROTHERTON & CO CHEMICAL WORKS, LEEDS. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FFOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 112 LBS WEIGHT, 36-38 INCH CHEST, TATTOOS ON BOTH FOREARMS.
HE ENLISTED AT LEEDS, ON 8/12/1915. MOBILIZED ON 28TH NOVEMBER 1916. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 10TH FEBRUARY 1917. SERVED WITH THE 1/5TH YORK & LANCS REGIMENT. DIED OF HEAD WOUNDS, ON 18/04/1918, AGED 30. BURIED IN FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW FLORENCE. THEIR SON JOHN DIED IN INFANCY OF PNEUMONIA.
HIS BROTHER, JAMES KELLY, DIED AT SEA, MINESWEEPING, ON 26/08/1915, AGED 33.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, EDWARD KELLY, 17229, 2ND HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 06/08/1915, AGED 36.
