Private Arthur James Hull, 10th Battalion Devonshire Regiment – Salonica casualty
16/11/2025
Arthur James Hull was born in 1884 at Taunton, in Somerset, one of 14 children of Francis, a labourer, and Emma Hull. He married Ada Hodge in 1909 and was a gamekeeper on the Yarner Estate, near Bovey Tracey in Devon, when he joined up at Newton Abbot in June 1916.
Arthur was killed in action, aged 33, on the night of 24/25 April 1917 during an attack on Petit Couronne, in Salonica, in which his battalion suffered 420 casualties; killed, wounded or missing. He is buried in Doiran Military Cemetery in Greece and commemorated on the parish church and civic war memorials at Bovey Tracey.
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