Private, William Lee, cut his throat in Billet, on Beverley Road, on the 19/10/15. He was a Hull man aged 36. He served as 23186, in 3rd Battalion of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. His wife lived at 53 Luke Street, Liverpool. (Hull Daily Mail 20/10/15)
Robert Hume, a discharged soldier from Hull, cut his throat at the Royal Bathing Spa, Scarborough, aged 53. (HDM 25/6/17)
Amaziah Harrison, a former soldier and Town Beadle for the Hull Corporation, “cut his throat, through insanity”, after being discharged from the army. He died on 20/06/1918, aged 48. His war pension was immediately ended and his widow, died three months later. Their only daughter, Bessie Ann was looked after by the Hull Performance Art Centre, on Anlaby Road, Hull
2/Lt., Henry Croom Jackman, cut his throat at Shoreham in Kent. He died on the 28/11/15, aged 20. (HDM 2/12/15)
2/Lt., Theodore Hamilton Beit, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, found dead by a sporting rifle, in his room on 26/1/17. A string was attached to the trigger, the other end to the deceased man’s boot. He was 18 years old and the son of Baron Otto Beit and Lady Beit, 49 Belgrave Square, London. (HDM 3/2/17)
Lieutenant, Arthur Franklin, found dead lying in a pool of blood in the waiting room at Worthing Station. He had a single bullet wound to the head. (HDM 19/12/19)
