Walter Henry Harold HUME
Date of Birth:
14 Apr 1888
Date of Death:
26 Jan 1967
Walter was born at Napier.
He married the divorcee Emma Coates (nee Heap) {born c 1869) in 1918.
They had no children.
Emma died in 1954 & in 1966 he married a widow Ella Perrin (nee Shing).
Walter started as a telegraph linesman in Wellington.
He served in WW1 as a sapper for the NZ Engineers in the wireless troop.
In 1919 he moved to Levin as a fish merchant. He then became a billiard saloon proprietor before becoming a horse trainer around 1941.
In 1946 he moved to Trentham as a horse trainer, however Emma stayed in Levin.
He retired around 1957.
Relatives mentioned in profile:
Walter Henry Harold Hume, James Allison Hume, Harriett Smyth Denby, Emma Matilda Heap, Ella May Shing, Julian James Coates, William Noel Perrin.