Callous Hull husband - wife on the Streets A young labourer, George Weldrake, was charged with living off the immoral earnings of his wife and sentenced to six months hard labour. The wife said she lived in Marias Place, Porter Street, Hull. Her husband had work but was bone idle. She admitted taking men to the house and remaining with them, on some occasions through the night. Her husband had generally been in the back, sometimes he bolted upstairs, in one case he had gone away drinking with a man who had been in the house! Prisoners little lad said his father worked one day in seven. He spent the rest of the time in bed, and often came home drunk at night. The Hull Daily Mail, 10 February 1914, refers The Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private G. Weldrake, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, who won his M.M. for a daring daylight patrol during which he killed several of the enemy machine gunners himself allowing his patrol to seize the position and the German machine guns Military Medal, G.V.R. (20293 Pte. G. Weldrake. 1/R. W. Kent. R.); British War and Victory Medals (201212 Pte. G. Weldrake. R. W. Kent R.), very fine (3)
