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Serjeant

Louis Charles Victor Hull

Service number 4388153
Military unit 2nd Bn Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)
Address Unknown
Date of birth 19 Jan 1918
Date of death 16 Dec 1943 (25 years old)
Place of birth Catford, London
Employment, education or hobbies Unknown
Family history

Son of William Ernest and Louisa Ada Hull of Lewisham, London.
Louis was baptised at St Mary's Church Lewisham on 10th March 1918, as Louis Charles Victor Miles and the baptismal records only record a mother's name. Also on the 1921 census he is recorded again as Miles not Hull and has being a step son. Ernest and Louisa married between April and June 1918 so Ernest may have been Louis's father with them marrying so soon after his birth.
Siblings: William Ernest (1919), Harold Raymond (1920) and Violet (1921).
Married Peggy Irene Reast of 52 Bradder Street, Mansfield in the summer of 1943, so they were only married for a few months. Peggy was only 21 years of age (DOB 12/3/1922). She had twin boys, Colin and Keith in the summer of 1944 but Colin died at or soon after his birth.
Peggy married Douglas Davenport in 1947 and she had 2 sons with him. In 1960 they emigrated to America and she died in 2012 just before her 90 th birthday

Military history

Louis had served in the Green Howards in India between 1937-39.
Died as the result of an accident.

Extra information

Louis's connection to Mansfield is thro' his wife, Peggy.

Photographs

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