BORN HULL 1884. HULL PAL. SON OF HORATIO ROSS WATT & MARY MARSHALL, OF 8, PORTLAND STREET. WIFE RUTH HEATHCOATE MARSHALL LIVED AT 10, PORTLAND STREET, HULL..
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES WEIGHTON MARSHALL 11/116. Born in April 1884, James was the fourth of six children to Horatio and Mary Marshall of 12 Portland Street, Hull. A Confectioner by trade. he married Ruth Heathcote Taylor. in September 1912 and the couple had two daughters, Jessica and Eveleen. The family lived next door but one to James’s parents at 8 Portland Street, Hull. When war came James queued outside City Hall on the morning of Monday 7th September to enlist for the brand new Pals Battalion, ‘The Tradesmen’, 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. A veteran of Egypt, the Somme and Oppy Wood he was killed in action on 24th March 1918 as the Pals were pushed forward into the maelstrom of the German Spring Offensive; his body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; he was 34 years old. His widow Ruth Heathcote, moved to 7, Berkley Terrace, Convent Lane, Hull (War Pension address).
His death compounded the family misery. His eldest brother, Frederick, had been killed in action on 25th January 1915. He had four daughters. The war took from that one family two sons and orphaned six children.
