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Jack Abbott was born in Beverley the 10 Oct 1893 the son of William Abbott, tanner’s labourer, and Lucy Smith Abbott (nee Bradley) they married in Seaforth, Liverpool in 1890. Jack was brought up on Railway Terrace in the 1890s and later Trinity Grove, off Grovehill Road, and 13 Regent Street. By 1914 he was living with his widowed mother at 6 Empson Terrace, Grayburn Lane. He spent four years between 1908 and 1912 as a member of the Beverley Church Lads’ Brigade. He served as a Corporal and as a Drummer. He was described as someone who “gradually developed into a really excellent and trustworthy lad”. Upon leaving school he worked as a shop assistant at the Maypole grocery shop on Toll Gavel, Beverley.
Jack enlisted in the army in Hull on 11 Jan 1915. He served as a Private in the 3rd Reserve Northumbrian Field Ambulance, RAMC, (Territorial Force). On 29 Jan 1916, whilst still in the UK, he was transferred to the Army Service Corps as a driver. On 7 Sep 1916, after agreeing to overseas service, he went out to the Balkans and served on the Salonika Front. He was on this mountainous and inhospitable front until late May 1919. Jack received the War and Victory Medals.
Jack returned to Beverley and married shortly after he and his wife, Laura, lived with his mother on Empson Terrace until at least the mid-1920s. They had a son John born 1922. Jack worked as a clerk in a paint manufacturer’s factory, by 1939 he was a provision store manager of the Maypole Dairy Co. Ltd branch, at 24 Charles Street, Hull and living at 146 Portobello Street. Jack died in 1989, aged 89; Laura died aged 103 in 1998.
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