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ARTHUR HELM
BORN HULL 1884. SON OF WILLIAM HELM (1852-1894) & SARAH JANE HALL (1854-1932) AT 7 ALLANDALE, MIDDLEBURG STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). HE HAD AN OLDER BROTHER, WILLIAM, AND SISTER, GERTRUDE. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1894. HIS MOTHER MARRIED JAMES MITTON AND DIED IN 1932.
ARTHUR HELM WAS AN UPHOLSTERER, LIVING WITH HIS WIFE, AT 1 WYNBURG STREET. (1911 CENSUS). HE MARRIED, ON 24/12/1910.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, 03/12/1915. ARRIVED FRANCE, 03/06/1916. POSTED TO THE 7TH EYR, 27/10/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, 05/11/1916, AGED 32. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
LEFT A WIDOW, ADA MAY TEALL (1887-1929) & DAUGHTER, AT 87 FIELD STREET, HULL. THEY THEN MOVED TO, 4 SEDMAN'S AVENUE, WITTY STREET, HULL AND 10 CHURCHILL CRESCENT, DURHAM STREET, HULL. SHE LATER MOVED TO 6 ROUGH CLIFF ROAD, WITHERNSEA AND 14 MILL LANE, LUDDERNOW FOOT, HALIFAX (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). WHEN HIS WIDOW DIED, IN 1929, HIS DAUGHTER WENT TO THE GIRLS HOSTEL, GREAT ALBION STREET, HALIXAX.
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