BORN SIGGLESTHORNE, 1886. SON OF GEORGE ARTHUR PLAYFOOT (1861-1906) & ALICE PLAYFOOT, OF SIGGLESTHORNE & 3, CAVE TERRACE, CAVE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF AN AGRICULTURAL WORKER AND WIDOWED MOTHER, BOTH FROM SKIRLAUGH. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS.
HE MARRIED, FLORENCE HURTLEY, AT HULL, IN 1910. THEIR DAUGHTER DOREEN WAS BORN IN 1911 AND DIED IN INFANCY. THEY THEN HAD TWO SONS, ALFRED AND JOSEPH . THEY LIVED AT 15, ARTHURS TERRACE, ST PAULS STREET, HULL AND 15, CAVE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A BREWERY LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS CORPORAL, WITH THE 8TH EYR. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 09/09/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 14/07/1916, AGED 30. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
HIS WIDOW, MARRIED WILLIAM TWELL, A LABOURER, ON 26/05/1917.
HIS BROTHER, GUNNER, JOHN ROBERT PLAYFOOT, 222483, 223RD ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, WAS KILLED ON 28/05/1918, AGED 19.
NB: PTE. ARTHUR PLAYFOOT, 24895, 1/4TH EYR LIVED 2 CAVE STREET, HULL
