BORN HULL 1899. FULL NAME WAS PERCIVAL WILLIAM KING, OF LONDON. STEP BROTHER OF MRS MARGARET WATSON, OF 2, ADELAIDE TERRACE, SCOTT STREET, HULL. GRAVE/PLOT 542/52296. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 02/08/1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. HE IS RECORDED KILLED ON HULL’S SCOTT STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 09 October 1916)
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM KING 12/475. Born in Hull and the step-brother of Margaret Ellen Watson of 2 Adelaide Street, Scott Street, Hull, but other than that details are hard to come by. William enlisted at City Hall joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. He was wounded in France and shipped back to the UK for treatment, but died in hospital at Netley on 12th July 1916. He is buried in Western Cemetery, Hull.
Christine Barley writes 21/1/2016: William King was my Great Uncle, his full name was Percival William King born 1899, he joined up in 1914 when he was 15, and gave the name William King and his age as 19 on enrollment . He was the half brother of Ellen Matson and had several other half siblings, his Mum had died a couple of years before he joined up. He sent a postcard to the family from Hospital at Netley on the 6th July 1916 and he seems to have been in good spirits, saying he would see them all soon, but six days later he died of Tetanus. He was 17 years old when he died.
