BORN HULL 1888. SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM PULFORD & AMELIA (MATHEWS), OF 18 BALFOUR CRESCENT, NORNABELL STREET, HULL. SONN OF A COOPER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN.
HE MARRIED AT ST PHILLIP’S CHURCH, HULL, ON 02/10/1909. HUSBAND OF JANE TAYLOR (1889-1961), OF 4 GEORGES TERRACE, KENT STREET, HULL, 10 ALEXANDRA TERRACE, LONDESBOROUGH STREET, HULL AND 10 OXFORD TERRACE, WILLIAMSON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS AN OIL MILLER (PRESSMAN). DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 3 INCHES TALL, 123 LBS WEIGHT, 35 -37 INCH CHEST, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 04/12/1915. CALLED UP FOR SERVICE, ON 10/04/1916. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 21/07/1916. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 27. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, FRANCE.
HIS NAMES IS RECORDED AS KILLED , ON NORNABELL STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (HDM 08/11/1916).
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30TH OCTOBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
HIS BROTHERS, WERE ALSO OIL MILLERS AND GEORGE PULFORD WAS LOST AT SEA, ON THE STEAM SHIP “ERA”.
