BORN HULL 31/12/1894. SON OF JOHN EDWARD LILLEY (1864-1936) & MARY ANN TULLOCK, OF 7 HOLDERNESS VILLAS, RHODES STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). SON OF A TRAFFIC FOREMAN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE MARRIED SISTERS. (HDM 27/05/1919). THIRD OF EIGHT CHILDREN. ONE OF THREE BROTHERS WHO DIED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
GEORGE LILLEY ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE HULL PALS. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 22418, WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/08/1918, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MARY ANN. HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS, BUT THERE IS NO CWGC RECORD OF THIS CASUALTY?
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 7TH SEPTEMBER 1917. THE THREE LILLEY SONS, LOST IN THE WAR, WERE,
PRIVATE, SYDNEY LILLEY, 12/571, 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 20.
PRIVATE, GEORGE EDWARD LILLEY, 22418, 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/08/1918, AGED 24.
PRIVATE, FRED LILLEY, 184495, MACHINE GUN CORPS, DIED OF WOUNDS ON 0102/1919, AT NOTTINGHAM HOSPITAL, AGED 30.
