BORN HULL 1898. YOUNGEST SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM VARLEY & GERTRUDE BRISTOW, OF 34, GEE STREET, HULL. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/09/1918, AGED 20. LEFT PARENTS, SISTERS, BROTHER (IN FRANCE) AND FIANCEE, PHYLLIS BARKER. (HDM 25/10/1918)
Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL RUPERT WARD VARLEY, 225330. Born in October 1897, Rupert was the second of three children to Charles and Gertrude Varley of 34 Gee Street, Anlaby Road, Hull. Enlisting at Hull City Hall he joined the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 2nd Hull Pals, in the trenches of the Western Front. Rupert was killed in action in the small hours of the morning of 6th September 1918 as the Pals attempted to drive the Germans back beyond the Ploegsteert Road and over the River Lys. They had relieved the 11th East Lancashire Regiment overnight and their new positions were dangerously exposed. When the attack began at 3am they came under murderous fire from enemy positions around Soyer Farm. Rupert’s body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial; he was 20 years old.
Varley, Rupert Ward
First name:
RUPERT WARD
Military Number:
225330
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
06/09/1918
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
20
34 , GEE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
