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Jack (John Henry) Duffill was born in Beverley Aug 1881, the second of five sons of John Henry Duffill, painter of Beverley, and his wife Sarah Ann. In 1904, employed as a tanner’s labourer, he married Margaret Witty of Beverley, and they had three sons, Harold Witty Duffill born 1905, Donald born 1913, and Gerald born 1915.
Jack began his military service in Jan 1909 when he enlisted for a period of four years in the Alexandra Princess of Wales' Own Yorkshire Regiment Territorial Force. He joined the Regiment 5 Aug 1914 and embarked for France 18 Apr 1915. Jack was wounded 23 Apr 1917. He was one of 118 members of the Battalion who were wounded on that day. It was reported in the Beverley Guardian 5 May 1917, that he was wounded in the right shoulder and hospitalised in Reading. He was discharged from the Regiment 12 Apr 1919 and was awarded the British War and Victory medals and the 15 Star.
In 1925 Jack became a postman in Beverley, the 1939 Register also lists this as his occupation. His wife Margaret died in 1938 and the 1939 Register shows details of his second wife Florence May Tomlinson, whom he married in 1939. John Henry Duffill died in Beverley aged 91 in 1972.
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