BORN HULL 1898. SON OF FRANCIS ORR (1858-1937) & JANE ANN ORR (1873-1913), OF 3 MARVEL COURT, MARVEL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS & WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 5 FITZROY STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD HULL. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS, AND THREE SISTERS.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 8TH KING’S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 01/07/1916, AGED 17.
COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME , FRANCE.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ON ST VINCENTS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH MEMORIAL, QUEENS ROAD, HULL AND ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL AT ST MARYS, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL.
HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1913. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS AUNT, MRS JEANNIE COSTELLO, AT 5, FITZROY STREET, HULL.
HIS BROTHER, JOHN FRANCIS ORR, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 28/10/1914, AGED 19.
