Partis, Daniel

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF DANIEL & MARGARET PARTIS. ORIGINAL HULL PAL. DIED OF WOUNDS. HIS ELDER BROTHER JOHN PARTIS, WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 05/08/1915 AT GALLIPOLI.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE DANIEL PARTIS 13/1418. Born in September 1897, Daniel was the youngest of six and only son of Daniel and Margaret Partis of 13 Garden Terrace, Courtney Street, Hull. An Oil Miller by trade he enlisted at Hull City Hall in April 1915 joining the 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, “T’Others”, 4th Hull Pals. He was seventeen and underage. He trained in the UK throughout the rest of 1915 and didn’t immediately take to the strict discipline required of a soldier. After being disciplined for overstaying a pass, he had further brushes with the authorities, firstly for “Irregular conduct in attempting to release an accused soldier from escort”, and secondly for “Quitting the station without leave until apprehended by military police in Retford 8.54pm 8th February 1916”. Two months later he was in France and transferred to the 11th Battalion. Still only 18. He served on the Somme and at Oppy Wood before being wounded in the abdomen during the German Spring Offensive and withdrawn to 56th Casualty Clearing Station where he died of wounds on 30th March 1918. Daniel Partis is buried at Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension; he was 20 years old.