Hull Pals Memorial Post. Private ALBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL 11/435. Born in 1885, Albert was one of five children to John and Ellen Marshall. A Labourer by trade, he married Ada Maria Rey in Thornton Hall, Hull on Christmas Day 1910 and the couple lived at 4, Melrose Terrace, South Parade, Hull. When war came, Albert enlisted at City Hall on Tuesday 8th September 1918 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. His war was the Pals war; taking in Egypt, the Somme, Oppy Wood, the Spring Offensive and all the while he remained unscathed while at home his family fell apart. His father having already passed away, Albert lost his mother in May 1917 and then his wife to Pulmonary Tuberculosis in March 1918, leaving nothing much left to come home to. Having been there right from the start, he almost made it through to the end; alas he was fatally wounded during the fighting around Soyer Farm and died on 29th September 1918. Albert is buried in La Kreule Military Cemetery; he was 33 years old.
His war pension went to Elsie Jane Tattersall at 152, Bean Street, Hull (War Pension Address).
