BORN HULL 1885. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM & ADELINE CAMPEY MARSHALL. HUSBAND OF ETHEL (NIGHTINGALE) OF 107, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL AND AT 115, WEST PARADE, SPRING BANK, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A CLUB STEWARD AT THE KINGSTON RECREATION CLUB, NEPTUNE STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 32. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 30/05/1918. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE TOM CAMPEY MARSHALL 24897. Born 1884, the youngest of seven children to James and Adaline Marshall of 55 High Street, Bridlington. Tom worked as a Club Steward prior to enlistment, and married Ethel Hardaker in April 1914. The couple lived at 16 Neptune Street, off Hessle Road in Hull. Tom enlisted at City Hall on 10th December 1915, just a few days before the dreaded Conscription Act became law, when men still had the chance to be viewed as ‘Volunteers’ and not ‘Conscripts’ who were viewed as the lowest-of-the-low. A member of ‘D’ Company, Tom was killed in action on 12th April 1918 as the Pals fought to hold the line in the face of the German Spring Offensive. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial. He was 34 years old. Ethel went on to marry Richard Nightingale in Beverley in June 1919 and the couple lived on Sculcoates Lane in Hull. She died in September 1967. I can’t be certain, but I believe Ethel lost her second husband to war also. If my trail is correct, Richard Nightingale died in Hull in December 1940 as Nazi’s rained fire down from the skies’ and once again, the city held firm.
