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131202 Gunner Joseph Hull, Anti-Aircraft Depot, Royal Garrison Artillery. "Suicide whilst of unsound mind" on 1st January 1917, aged 19. Son of Thomas and Eilzabeth Hull, of 3, Rose Street, Farington.
SUICIDE OF A FARINGTON SOLDIER.
An inquest was held at Leeds, yesterday, by the City Coroner on the body of Gunner Joseph Hull (20), 3, Rose-terrace, Farington, near Preston, who was found dead on the Great Northern Railway, at Beeston, Leeds, on Monday night.
Thomas Hull, the father, stated that before enlisting in the Army in November last his son was employed at a rubber works in Preston. Witness handed coroner a letter which his wife had received from their son on Tuesday morning. It had been posted on the night of the tragedy, and complained of pains in the head.
Gunner G. Davies said he met Hull at Beeston about 7.30 p.m. on Monday, and the deceased man asked him to go to a chemist's with him. As he came out of the shop Hull drank half of the contents of a bottle which contained bromide of potash, for insomnia. They then returned to the camp - a corporal spoke to the finding of Hull's body on the railway.
A verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind" was returned.
(Lancashire Daily Post, 4 January 1917)
SUICIDE OF A FARINGTON SOLDIER.
An inquest was held at Leeds, yesterday, by the City Coroner on the body of Gunner Joseph Hull (20), 3, Rose-terrace, Farington, near Preston, who was found dead on the Great Northern Railway, at Beeston, Leeds, on Monday night.
Thomas Hull, the father, stated that before enlisting in the Army in November last his son was employed at a rubber works in Preston. Witness handed coroner a letter which his wife had received from their son on Tuesday morning. It had been posted on the night of the tragedy, and complained of pains in the head.
Gunner G. Davies said he met Hull at Beeston about 7.30 p.m. on Monday, and the deceased man asked him to go to a chemist's with him. As he came out of the shop Hull drank half of the contents of a bottle which contained bromide of potash, for insomnia. They then returned to the camp - a corporal spoke to the finding of Hull's body on the railway.
A verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind" was returned.
(Lancashire Daily Post, 4 January 1917)