John Houlbrook (1925-?) [R210477, Merchant Navy]
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- born 28 March 1925 in Halifax (Q2 1925 Halifax née Walker)
- son of Herbert Houlbrook & Catherine Mary (née Walker)
- attended Spring Grove School, Huddersfield
- lived at 22 Cecil Street, Huddersfield, circa 1940
Records:
- 1921 Census (FindMyPast) – 31 Launceston Street, Halifax (parents, father: clay miner at Walterclough Colliery, Southowram)
Links:
Articles:
- Huddersfield Examiner (02/Nov/1940) – Bombed and Torpedoed: Local Boy’s Grim Experience
Notes:
- according to one tree on Ancestry, he died in Adelaide, Australia (no date given)
- John’s sister Joan Victoria Houlbrook (born c1920) travelled to New Zealand in 1948 aboard Atlantis and then married there in 1950
- n.b. the John Houlbrook who died in 2020 at Mexborough is likely to be the person of that name whose birth was registered Q2 1925 Doncaster née Jarvis, so not the same person
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Huddersfield Daily Examiner (17/Apr/1946):
HUDDERSFIELD BOROUGH COURT
A “LOSING DO”?
As an excuse for their disorderly conduct in Buxton Road late last night, John Kilgallon (20), seaman, 81, Close Hill Lane, Newsome, and John Houlbrook (21), seaman, 23, Water Street, who pleaded guilty, said that they were celebrating the latter’s twenty-first birthday.
It was stated that the two accused were involved in an incident outside the Co-operative dance hall. Both were serving in the Merchant Navy and were due back to report to their ships today. “Apparently they had been having an evening out,” said Supt. Binns (prosecuting).
“It was John’s twenty-first birthday,” said Kilgallon, “and we just had a bit of a celebration.”
Houlbrook: We had come home, and we were having a bit of a celebration, that’s all.
The Bench ordered both men to be imprisoned until the rising of the Court.
Before G. C-H. Willans and Oliver Rodgers, Esqs.
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