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Sidney Hall was born in Camberwell, South London, on 16 Nov 1881. He moved north to Beverley in the 1880s and thereafter resided with William and Mary Wright in the Lairgate area and had one child, Margaret, born in 1876. In subsequent census Sidney is described as their “nephew”. William was a painter and decorator and Sidney followed him into the trade, and was described in the 1901 census as “a housepainter and wallpaper hanger”. He married Alice Woodger in Driffield in April 1909. Alice was a domestic servant, born in Kelleythorpe in 1889. Their only child, Vera, was born in 1910, by which time they were living at 11 Queensgate, later moving to 21 Queensgate, Beverley.
A photograh of Sidney appeared in the Beverley Guardian in Feb 1917 stating he was in the Yorkshire Regiment. The cap badge suggests that he was in the Green Howards but there is no further record of this. A “Sidney Hall “did serve in the 12th and then the 6th Battalions of the East Yorkshire Regiment; similarly a “Sidney Hall” served in the 11th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Sidney was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
After the war Sidney resumed his job as a house decorator. He died aged 65 in 1946 and was buried at Queensgate Cemetery, Beverley on 22 Nov 1946. Alice died in 1972.
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