BORN GLOUCESTER 1885. SON OF DANIEL McPHAIL MERRYLESS (1860-1936) AND ELIZA HARRISON (1862-1911). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN AT THIS ADDRESS. MARRIED SCULCOATES, HULL, JULY 1913. HIS WIFE VIOLET BREWER AND DAUGHTER JOYCE MERRYLEES (BORN 1914), LIVED AT 7 WASHINGTON VILLAS, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL. HE HAS BEEN N THE ARMY FOR FOUR YEARS AND SERVED ABROAD. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/10/1915, AGED 30. LEFT A WIDOW AND CHILD.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 29/10/1915 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, and in the hull times, on 30/10/1915. *
BURIED: Vermelles, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
HIS BROTHERS, PRIVATE, ARTHUR MERRYLEES, 13/1468, 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 29/06/1916, AGED 17, AND CORPORAL, ALBERT MERRYLEES, 206179, 10TH HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED ON 20/10/1918, AGED 30.
HE LEFT SURVIVING BROTHERS, GEORGE, THOMAS, AND DANIEL, AND SISTERS, BEATRICE, MAUD, AND MABEL.
