BORN HULL 1890. ELDEST SON OF KENNETH WATT MURESS (1856-1906) & MARY ELIZABETH NEWTON (1857-1937), OF 114 POST OFFICE ENTRY, HIGH STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A DRUG PACKER (1901 CENSUS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.
HE MARRIED BERTHA HANSELL ( 1889-1963), IN HULL, JANUARY 1915. THEY LIVED AT 2 RUGBY TERRACE, HARROW STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, BEFORE WAR BEGAN. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. WAS THE GYMNASTIC INSTRUCTOR FOR THE 1ST EAST YORKISHE BATTALION. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 08/09/1914. WOUNDED AT LE CATEAU ON 27/09/1914. SPENT TIME RECOVERING AT CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL. HE RETURNED TO HIS UNIT. PROMOTED SERGEANT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/09/1915, AGED 25.
COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES, MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS NAME IS ALSO LISTED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
HIS DEATH IS REPORTED WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 14TH OCTOBER 1915.
HIS PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL AND HULL TIMES, ON 17TH OCTOBER 1914. *
HIS TWO BROTHERS, THOMAS EDWARD MURESS AND GEORGE WILLIAM MURESS, BOTH SERVED AT SEA, DURING THE WAR.
