BORN HULL 1889. SON OF ROBERT AND JANE SCAIFE, OF 12 HOPE TERRACE, WALKER STREET, HULL. ROBERT HAD SERVED IN THE BOER WAR AND WORKED FOR THE HULL BREWERY COMPANY.
HE LEFT A WIDOW FANNY & YOUNG SON MATHEW SCAIFE, AT 2, EBENEEZER TERRACE, WALKER STREET, HULL. THIS WAS GIVEN AS HIS ARMY ADDRESS.
HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER AND DIED OF WOUNDS 23/11/1914, IN A GERMAN HOSPITAL RECEIVED AT MONS. HE WAS AGED 27. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH ARE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 23RD MARCH 1915. * HIS MOTHER CONTINUED TO REMEMBER HIS DEATH, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, 23/11/1919.
HE IS BURIED AT LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, AISNE, FRANCE.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE WALKER STREET MEMORIAL WITH HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM WHO WAS KILLED ON 23/02/1915.
ANOTHER BROTHER ARTHUR ALSO SERVED. THE THREE BROTHERS ARE PHOTOGRAPHED TOGETHER IN THE HULL TIMES ON 22/05/1915, AND THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 23/03/1915. *
PTE., ARTHUR SCAIFE, 1ST EYR, WAS WOUNDED AT YPRES AND HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 21ST MAY 1915. *
