No.200294, Lance Sergeant , Charles HULL
Aged 26
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Born in Luton in 1891 (1st qtr 3b:447) son of (née PRUDEN)
1891 census...Aged 1 month, he was at Mr Campions Cottages, Sundon, nr Luton with his father Albert HULL [25] engine driver's assistant born Sundon; his mother Kate [25] born Hexton. 1901 census...Aged 10, he was at 45 Henry Street, Luton with his parents; sisters Jane [7] and Daisy [5] both born in Luton. 1911 census...He has not been found in this census. At 28 Midland Road, Luton were his parents; sisters Rose Amelia [22], Mary Jane [18] and Daisy. He married Emily Violet WEBB [30-10-1891] in 1st qtr 1915 in Bury St.Edmunds, later of 10 Ipswich Terrace, Bury St.Edmunds. There was an illegitimate step daughter Lilian WEBB [2905-1913] and a daughter Florence Emily HULL [21-5-1915]. She married George COPPING in Bury St.Edmunds in 1919. |
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He enlisted in Luton, resided Bury St.Edmunds. His medal index card has not been found, so the medals shown here are an assumption. The war diary :- 20 Jul 1917.. 0540 GOC 162 Bde inspected a rehearsal by the new 6 rifle sections. 0600-1100 R.S.M. and party laid out stores at place of assembly in proper dumps. These stores had been taken up by the T.O. to the entrance of K.M1 communication trench near P.31.D.4.4. The afternoon passed without incident. 1900 The whole raiding party marched arriving at the place of assembly at about 2015. Stores were issued and the party detailed in orders placed the four trench bridges in position and made the gap in our own wire. Everything was quite ready by about 2050 and all stores issued. The raiders left the place of assembly at 2055 in accordance with programme and the raid was carried through very successfully in accordance with programme - details are given in Appendix B. By sheer bad luck the enemy had put up an intense bombardment of 5.9" H.E shells onto a very small area near the place of assembly and almost the whole of the casualties are due to this except for the missing and probably two or three killed in UMBRELLA HILL and perhaps 8 or 10 wounded there. 2145 About this time the Raiders followed by the supports came back to our front line with so many men and in view of the tremendous noise and dense smoke some confusion was inevitable but the officers and N.C.Os of these parties quickly appreciated the situation and with the assistance of some parties organised by the reserve commander Capt C.H. Miskin [Christopher Harold MISKIN, MC] managed to retain most of their men in our front trench which was comparatively safe as the enemy barrage was plastering a zone some 50 yds to 150 in rear of our front line and on a front of about 200 yds, with occasional shots further to our rear and to the flanks. After some reconnaissance it was found possible to move our men to the flanks i.e. towards SAMSON'S RIDGE and SNIPER'S SPUR along the front line and so out of the barrage. They were then passed down communication trenches or in small parties in the open. The garrison had been relieved and all except wounded evacuated by 0130.
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