Hull Pals Memorial Post: Born in September 1897, Harry was the youngest of twelve children to Samuel and Charlotte Storr of 72 Weatherill Street, Goole. An Office Boy at the time of the 1911 Census, Harry was underage when he enlisted at Hull City Hall during the first week of September 1914. At best he was 17, at worst still only 16. Perhaps he thought it was safer to enlist in a town where no-one knew him. Either way his lie was believed and Harry joined the 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, “The Commercials”, 1st Hull Pals.
The familiar story of the Originals is repeated here. Harry left Devonport for Alexandria, Egypt on 8th December 1915 and served there until late February 1916 when the Pals left Port Said for Marseilles and then north to the trenches of the Western Front.
Harry was killed in action on 4th June 1916 during the 70 minute bombardment which took the lives of so many of his comrades and finally put an end to the myth that the 10th Battalion were “lucky”. He is buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery; he was 18 years old: still too young to be serving abroad.
Both Harry and Walter Raney (Day 14) travelled from Goole to Hull in order to enlist, and whilst I cannot be sure, it is very easy to form a picture of them travelling together, signing up together, training together, shipping together, and dying together.
