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Pte. Kenneth Hague

British Army 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

from:Filey

(d.1st July 1916)

Ken Hague was killed in action on 1st July 1916 in France. He left behind him a wife, Alice, and four girls, Alice, Ethel, Christiana and Marjorie. He was born in Sheffield in 1879 and married Alice Sayers on 29th January 1899. Before joining up, he had worked as a file cutter. Why he volunteered for the Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry is not known, but he left Sheffield and went out with them to South Africa to fight the Boer War in March 1901. He came home in May 1902 and settled down to family life. He and Alice and the two younger girls moved to Filey in North Yorkshire, where Alice was originally from.



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