BORN HULL 1887. KNOWN AS ‘HARRY LARVIN’. A HULL PAL. SON OF JOHN AND ANN LARVIN – 1 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, MARLEBOROUGH TERRACE, NORFOLK STREET, HULL. BROTHER TO PATRICK AND SISTER, ELIZABETH ANN LARVIN. HE WORKED AS A LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 01/10/1914. SERVED WITH THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL PALS) IN EGYPT IN 1915. TRANSFERRED TO FRANCE, ON 08/03/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 29. COMMEMORATED ON THE THEIPVAL MEMORIAL.
HIS MOTHER APPEALED FOR INFORMATION, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 23/12/1916.
HIS NAME IS ALSO LISTED ON ST CHARLES BORREMEO CHURCH WAR MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE THOMAS HENRY LARVIN 12/783. Born in 1887, Thomas was the eldest of three children to John and Ann Larvin of 1 Ann’s Place, Marlborough Crescent, Norfolk Street, Hull. A Labourer by trade he enlisted at City Hall on 1st October 1914 joining the fledgling 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. One of the Originals, Thomas’s war was the history of the Pals- training throughout 1915 in various camps around Yorkshire before leaving Devonport in December bound for Alexandria, Egypt. After a posting protecting the Suez Canal from potential attack by the Turks, they left Port Said bound for Marseilles on 29th February 1916 landing on March 8th before taking the train north to Armentieres and from there to the trenches of the Western Front. Thomas was killed in action on 13th November 1916 at Serre during the last pointless attack of the Somme campaign. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; he was 29 years old.
