BORN HULL 1884. ONLY SON OF THOMAS MESSENGER & MARY ANN ARNOT, AT 37 , SOUTHCOATES LANE, HULL.
HE WAS A PLUMBER BY TRADE, WORKING IN DOMESTIC HOUSES AND ON SHIPS FOR MR T. CAWKILL, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL.
HIS WIFE, ROSE MESSENGER LIVED AT 6 PORTER’S PLACE, PORTER STREET, HULL & c/0 MRS BOOTHBY OF 8, SUTTON TERRACE, STUDLEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. TRAINED AT RIPON, SALISBURY. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. REPORTED THAT HE DIED OF SHRAPNEL WOUNDS TO HIS HEAD, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 32. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS DEATH IS ALSO RECORDED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
First name:
GEORGE HENRY
Regiment:
Military Number:
13/1127
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
32
