BORN HULL 05/11/1888.SON OF HENRY AND SARAH ANN WOLFE, AT 15 GLASGOW STREET, HULL & 14, BRUNSWICK TERRACE, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL.
HE MARRIED, LILLY JULIA WHITE, IN HULL AND LIVED AT 58, CHILTERN STREET, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS, 25/09/1917).
BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER, AT THE CENTRAL DRY DOCK AND WAS A WELL KNOWN LOCAL FOOTBALLER.
HE ENLISTED IN THE 1ST EYR, ON 26/06/1915. SERVED IN FRANCE, FROM 28/06/1916. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 26/09/1916, AGED 26. BURIED ON THE SOMME. A COMRADE, WROTE, “HE WAS A GOOD SOLDIER, AND WELL LIKED BY OFFICERS AND MEN.”
HE LEFT WIDOW, LILY, AND TWO YOUNG SONS, LAURENCE AND JOHN..
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 26TH SEPTEMBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE WAS COMMEMORATED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
HIS DEATH IS ALSO RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 4.
NOTE: ALFRED WOLFE, ASC – 79 CHARLES STREET. LEWIS & SYDNEY WOLFE, LIVING AT 64 MORPETH STREET, HULL.
