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Vincent Harold Marson was born on 19 Dec 1895 in Driffield, the first child of Arthur Frederick, an oil miller and Eliza Marson. The family lived at 48 Eastgate South, Driffield at the time, Arthur and Eliza went on to have a daughter, Gladys, and two more sons, Charles Frederick and Harry in subsequent years. Though it was with the birth of their last child, Florence that tragedy struck the family and changed Vincent's childhood drastically. In Nov 1903, when Vincent was seven years old, his parents were removed from their home in Brook Cottages, suffering from Enteric Fever, or Typhoid. Eliza was pregnant at the time and, isolated in a separate ward in Driffield Workhouse, she gave birth to Florence on Thursday 12 Nov 1903. Florence survived just twelve hours and was born, baptised and died the same day. The following day Eliza passed away, followed the next day by Arthur. All three were buried together on 16 Nov 1903.
After the loss of their parents Vincent and his siblings were dispersed among the wider family. Charles Frederick was adopted by his maternal aunt and uncle William and Clare Lyth of Hilderthorpe, Harry was fostered by his maternal grandfather, John Lowe, of Beckside, Beverley. Gladys was sent to live with her uncle, George Lowe, in Hull and, by 1911, Vincent was living in Beverley with his uncle, Charles Marson and his paternal grandmother Ann Elizabeth. By then he was a glue maker and went on to be an active and popular member of Beverley Town Boys 1st Cricket Team.
At the outbreak of war Vincent was working at Hogson and Sons and enlisted early in the Beverley Terriers, the 5th Battalion of the Princess Alexandra's Yorkshire Regiment. Vincent Harold Marson, Private was killed in action whilst attached to one of the Hull Battalions on 25 Apr 1917. At the time his address was given as 168 Norwood, Beverley and Mr C F Marson as his next of kin.
Vincent is buried at Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, he was awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the 15 Star. He is remembered on the Beverley War Memorial and the Beverley Minster War Memorial
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