BORN HULL 1891. SON OF WILLIAM HAWLEY PULLEN (1869-1941) AND MARY ANN LOCK (1865-1934), OF 23 GILLETT STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL AND 2 IRELAND TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL (HULL AILY MAIL OBITUARY ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. A HESSLE ROAD, FISH WORKER. THIS WAS HIS ARMY ADDRESS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7 INCHES TALL, 35.5 INCH CHEST, 139 LBS WEIGHT, “GOOD” PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 16/11/1914. TRAINED IN BEVERLEY AND RIPON. SERVED WITH THE HULL PALS IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WOUNDED BY SHRAPNEL IN THE SKULL, ON 19/07/1916. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 20/07/1916, AGED 24. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 1 YEAR AND 247 DAYS. HE IS BURIED IN FRANCE. HIS FAMILY WROTE. “HE BRAVELY ANSWERED THE CALL AND NOBY DID HIS DUTY”.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MARY ANN. HIS NAME IS RECORDED AS KILLED, ON THE GILLETT STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916). HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 08/08/1916. *
NOTE: HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM VALENTINE PULLEN, RNRT, SERVED AT SAME ADDRESS. 1918 VOTERS.
