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OLIVER HANSON
BORN HULL 13/10/1888. SON OF OLIVER HANSON (1858-1903) AND ADA HODGSON (1864-1956), OF 6, LORNE TERRACE, LORNE STREET, HULL.. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS AND FOUR BROTHERS.
EMPLOYED AS A RULLYMAN.
HE MARRIED, AT HULL, ON 20/05/1907, AGED 19. HIS WIFE ANNIE BREWER (1890-1923) AND TWO DAUGHTERS, OLIVE AND VIOLET, LIVED AT 12. DE GREY TERRACE, LORNE STREET, HULL(1911 CENSUS).
POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 08/07/1915. HE SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/10/1915, AGED 27. BURIED AT ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN, SEINE-MARITIME, FRANCE.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE LORNE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR AS KILLED.
HIS NAME IS ALSO RECORDED IN THE ST PAUL CHURCH BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE 1914-1918 (133 NAMES). THE BOOK CAN BE VIEWED AT THE HULL HISTORY CENTRE Ref No: L DL SP/1).
Seine-Maritime 76120
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