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JAMES ERNEST JACK
BORN HULL 1880. SON OF GEORGE JACK (1848-1920) & JANE ANN JOHNSON (1851-1913), OF 100, ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HIS FATHER WAS A GAS WORKS MANAGER. THE FAMILY LIVED IN BRIGG, LINCS, AND COTTINGHAM.
HE MARRIED AT HULL, OCT 1908. HIS WIFE, TERESSA CORLYON AND DAUGHTER MARJORY, LIVED AT 14, OCEAN TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS) AND 4, REGENT TERRACE, PROVIDENCE ROW, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL.
HE WORKED AS A MUSICIAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 9.5 INCHES TALL, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 06/11/1914. SERVED WITH THE 23RD RGA. DISCHARGED ON 7/09/1919, WITH BRONCHITIS AND RECORDED AS 100% DISABLED. DIED ON 01/10/1919, AGED 39. BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS BROTHER, BOMBARDIER, SIDNEY JOHNSON JACK (1892-1919), WAS A REGULAR ARMY SOLDIER WHO ENLISTED IN 1912 AND SERVED AS 115, 2ND NORTHUMBRIAN BRIGADE, RFA. HE WAS BADLY GASSED AT THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES AND DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY, ON 1 MAR 1916. HE LIVED AT 4, RIPON VILLAS, BRUNSWICJ AVENUE, HULL AND DIED AT HULL, ON 29/03/1919 AGED 26. HAVING BURIED TWO SONS IN 1919, THEIR FATHER DIED IN APRIL 1920.
Kingston upon Hull HU5 4AY
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