ON NEEDLERS ROH. HULL ADDRESS UNTRACED. Son of Joseph Alfred and Mary Ann Lumley, of 17, Pit Row, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. CORPORAL JOSEPH LUMLEY 11/226. Born in 1894, Joseph was the third of four children and only son of Joseph and Mary Ann Lumley of 16 Cross Street, Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham. Joseph followed his father twice. First he followed him down the pit, the 1911 Census has him working as a Miner like his Dad; secondly, when life underground didn’t suit him, he left his own birthplace for his father’s and moved down to Hull where he found work as a Sugar Boiler at Needlers. He was in Hull when war came, and queued outside City Hall on Monday 7th September 1914 as the army began filling the ranks of the 2nd Hull Pals battalion, the 11th East Yorks. A veteran of Egypt and the Somme Joseph was wounded in the left shoulder at Oppy Wood but returned to the ranks soon after. He was killed in action on 3rd December 1917 and buried in Roclincourt Military Cemetery; Joseph Lumley was 23 years old and someone’s only son.
