BORN HULL 1894. SECOND SON OF WILLIAM WEYMESS (1856-1917) & FANNY MARIA LONG (1859-1934), OF 78, ENGLISH STREET, HULL. SON OF A SCOTTISH, SEA CAPTAIN. THE FOURTH OF FIVE CHILDREN. ELDER SISTERS, JANE AND EDITH WHO LIVED AT 78 ENGLISH STREET. OLDER BROTHER, WILLIAM WHO WORKED IN SCUNTHORPE. YOUNGER BROTHER STANLEY, WHO LIVED AT 2 HALL STREET, HULL AND SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.
EMPLOYED AS A SHIP’S CHANDLER (1911 CENSUS) AND PAINT LABOURER. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT 3 INCHES TALL, 119 LBS WEIGHT, 34-36 INCH CHEST, DARK COMPLEXUION, DARK BROWN EYES, DARK BROWN HAIR, “VERY FAIR” PHYSIQUE, CHURCH OF ENGLAND RELIGION.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 08/09/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS, 04/08/1916, AGED 22, AT NO 33 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. HE IS LISTED AS KILLED ON HULL’S ENGLISH STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 23 September 1916). HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 1 YEAR AND 322 DAYS.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, LEONARD WEYMSS, 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/04/1917, AGED 21YRS.
HIS FATHER DIED AT SEA, ON 18/12/1917, AGED 62 AND IS INTERRED AT THE BRITISH MILITARY CEMETERY, CALAIS.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE GEORGE WEMYSS 11/429. Born in July 1894, George was the fourth of five children to William and Fanny Wemyss of 78 English Street, Hull. Working as a Painter’s Labourer when war broke out, he queued up outside City Hall to enlist on 8th September 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. After training throughout 1915 and a stint in Egypt, George and the Pals arrived in France on 8th March 1916 before heading north to the trenches of the Western Front. He was hospitalised in April with a bout of impatigo, but returned to the line a week or two later and was in reserve trenches during the Somme attack that summer. George suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was evacuated to the 33rd Casualty Clearing Station, where he died of wounds on 4th August 1916. George is buried at Bethune Town Cemetery; he was 22 years old. To compound his parents misery George’s brother Leonard was killed in action on 9th April 1917 whilst serving as a Corporal with the 2nd Yorkshire Regiment. William and Fanny Weyss lost their two youngest sons.
