BORN HULL, 09/04/1886. SON OF EDWARD JAMES OLLETT & CLARA LEDGER, OF NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL AND 36 LABURNHAM AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE BRITISH GAS COMPANY, BANKSIDE, HULL.
MARRIED IN 1905. HIS WIFE WAS THE LATE JANE ANN OLLETT, WHO DIED IN 1914, AGED 30. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN.
HE ENLISTED, HULL. TRANSFERRED TO THE SCOTTISH REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, ON 09/04/1917, AGED 31.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER, EDITH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 20TH APRIL, 1917 AND 15TH AUGUST, 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE BRITISH GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY WW1 MEMORIAL, WHICH IS KEPT AT THE FAKENHAM GAS MUSEUM, NORFOLK. HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON HULL’S NEW GEORGE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 03 November 1917).
HE IS BURIED AT ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “EVER IN THOUGHT FROM MOTHERLESS CHILDREN ALBERT, PHYLLIS, ROBERT”.
HIS BROTHER, L/CPL, ROBERT OLLETT, 11/691, 11TH EYR, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/07/1917.
