BORN HULL 1892. SON OF GEORGE ALFRED AND LAVINIA ALCOCK, AT 62 RUGBY STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE WORKED AS A SHIP'S TRIMMER. EX EMPLOYEE OF AMOS SMITH OF HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, IN FEBRUARY 1914. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 1803, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 18/04/1915. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 03/05/1915, AGED […]
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11 SOMERSET AVENUE, WITHERNSEA STREET, WILMINGTON, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
14/09/1915
Aged
22
BORN SOUTH CAVE, 1892. SON OF HANNAH & THE LATE RICHARD BERRY, of 8 INDUSTRIAL TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL & 11 SOMERSET AVENUE, WITHERNSEA STREET, WILMINGTON, HULL. BEFORE ENLISTING HE WORKED FOR SANDERSON'S PAINT WORKS. ALFRED IS RECORDED ON THE WILMINGTON ROH, SUTTON AND THE BEAN STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 11 Octo […]
BORN HESSLE 1899. LIVED HESSLE. ENLISTED HULL. EX PRIVATE, 51549, EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/09/1918, AGED 19. GRANDSON OF GEORGE & ANNE BLAGG & SECOND SON OF ELIZABETH BLAGG (1874-1948), OF 6 ITlINGS LANE, HESSLE, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). HE HAD BROTHERS , ARTHUR, FRANK AND FRED AND SISTERS, CLARICE, EVERLI […]
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BORN NEWLAND, HULL 1894. AN ADOPTED. SINGLE MAN. HE LIVED AT 1 QUEENS COTTAGE, QUEENS ROAD, HULL WITH AUNT SARA ANN BYLES, (1911 CENSUS) & LATER IN WITHERNSEA. HE ENLISTED AT WITHERNSEA. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/08/1915, AGED 21. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO ANOTHER AUNT,MISS GERTRUDE […]
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7 WOODLAND VILLAS, RENSBURG STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
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Died on
04/10/1917
Aged
36
BORN BEVERLEY 1881. ELDEST SON OF ROBERT DESBOROUGH (1853-1943) & ANNIE WEST (1860-1935), OF 7 WOODLAND VILLAS, RENSBURG STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. WAS A REGULAR ARMY SOLDIER (1901 CENSUS). HE LIVED AT BEVERLEY, KIRK ELLA, WHITTINGDON, STAFFORDSHIRE AND LAMBETH, LONDON. HE MARRIED ALIC […]
BORN HULL 1891. ORIGINAL HULL PAL. 1918 VOTERS ADDRESS. LISTED ON ST VINCENT'S CHURCH MEMORIAL PLAQUE, QUEENS ROAD, HULL AS CHARLES J EDWARDS. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CHARLES SYDNEY EDWARDS 12/1399. Born in July 1891, the youngest of three children, Charles lost his mother and father quite young and the 1911 Census finds him lod […]
BORN HULL 1880. SON OF GEORGE & ELIZABETH EVANS & 5 CHILDREN, AT 96 CUMBERLAND STREET, HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/08/1916, AGED 36. BURIED AT BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY, BELGIUM. GIVEN NO; 3368 IN HULL TRINITY MINSTER RECORDS.
BORN BEDFORD 31/03/1890. NEPHEW OF MRS ELEANOR K. KINGSTON, OF 40 GLOUCESTER ROAD, TOTTENHAM, NORTH LONDON (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT ST PANCRAS, LONDON - 1914. A SERGEANT IN THE 6TH DUKE OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY. HE SERVED IN FRANCE FROM AUGUST 1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 22/09/1915, AGED 25. HE LIVED IN HULL. HE IS BUR […]
59 NEW KING STREET, KING EDWARD STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Died on
22/03/1916
Aged
29
BORN CARDIFF 1887. ENLISTED HULL. ELDEST SON OF CHARLES GRAVES, HULL. KILLED BY BOMB. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 28/03/1916. HDM ADDRESS - 3/05/1917. LABOURER. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH.
2 THOMAS PLACE, COTTINGHAM ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
04/05/1915
Aged
35
BORN HULL 1879. SON OF MARIA HEBDEN, OF 6 QUEEN'S TERRACE, TERRY STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. A TERRITORIAL SOLDIER. RECALLED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. WENT TO FRANCE WITH COLONEL SHAW. SERVED IN "C" COMPANY, THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRES. REPORTED MISSING ON 3RD MAY 1915. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH APPEAR IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 3RD SEPTEMB […]
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19 PROSPECT PLACE, CHURCH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
28/08/1915
Aged
28
BORN HULL 1887. SON OF ROBERT HODGSON (1865-1904) AND BETSEY HODGSON (1864-1891). STEP SON OF MRS LILY HODGSON, OF 19 PROSPECT LACE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 28/08/1915, AGED 28. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO LILY, HIS SISTER, MRS […]
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BORN HULL 1897. SON OF GEORGE W & ADA E LEAK. ENLISTED HULL. LISTED ON HULL'S DIVISION ROAD ROLL OF HONOUR. COMMEMORATED ON THE BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY, WEST-VLAANDEREN, BELGIUM.
BORN JULY 1898. SON OF KATHRINE LEWENDON. HE LIVED AT 6 CLAREMONT AVENUE, FIELD STREET. GRANDSON OF JACOB & DRUSILLA BURCHELL AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/10/1917, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFTTO HIS GRANDMOTHER, DRUSILLA. HE IS BURIED AT BEDFORD HO […]
499 Eastern Avenue, Toronto, Canada
Died on
10/06/1916
Aged
32
Born Hull, 14/05/1885. Son of Charles and Margaret Murray, of Grimsby. He had two brothers and four sisters. He emigrated to Canada where he married and then returned briefly to England, for work. He was working as a Boiler Cleaner, living with his sister, at 144 Daubney Street New Cleethorpes (1911 Census). He returned to Canada, where […]
BORN HULL 1888. SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM OFFEN & HARRIET OFFEN, 24 LUCY'S PLACE, PORTER STREET. HE WAS SINGLE AND LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED SIX YEARS IN CHINA WITH THE 1ST KOYLI, BASED IN HONG KONG. HE CAME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS IN 1914, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SIX YEARS. HE RETURNED TO THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. KILL […]
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10 KINGS CROSS TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
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Died on
24/09/1915
Aged
22
BORN HULL 1893. ONLY SON OF GEORGE AND EMMA POWLEY. HE LIVED & WORKED ON WAINLESS FARM, COTTINGHAM, WITH HIS FIVE SISTERS (1911 CENSUS) HE JOINED THE NER SERVICE ON 22/02/1913. WORKED AS A CHAIN HORSE LAD IN WEST HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 02/09/1914. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 24/09/1915, AGED 22 . HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY […]
BORN HULL 1878. ONLY SON OF JAMES SEWARD (1847-1911) AND MARY ANN NORTHCOTT (1850-1899), OF 155 BEAN STREET, HULL. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER, HERBERT, AND TWO SISTERS, IDA AND LILIAN. A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, IN 1901, AGED 23. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT , 6 INCHES TALL, BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR, 122 LBS WEIG […]
BORN YORK 1892. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF WILLIAM & SARAH A. SEMPERS, OF 33 ALNE TERRACE, YORK. WORKED AS A GENERAL WAREHOUSEMAN (1911 CENSUS). SERVED AS A GUNNER, WITH THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. LISTED AS DIED OF WOUNDS - HULL DAILY MAIL 18/10/1917, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ELIZABETH LEE, WHO HE MARRIED IN HULL, IN 1915.
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BORN BEVERLEY 1895. LIVED BEVERLEY. SON OF GEORGE & MARGERY P. SHORT, OF 3, CHERRY TREE TERRACE, BEVERLEY. HE WORKED IN A TANNERY AND THEN AS A GROOM. DESCRIBED AS 5'4½", 112lbs, 34" CHEST, FAIR PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, WESLEYAN RELIGION. MEMBER OF THE BEVERLEY ODDFELLOWS. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 23/10/1915. FORMERLY, 2328, 3/1ST EA […]
BORN SUTTON UPON HULL, 04/12/1892. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. ELDEST SON OF SHEPLEY VICKERS SMITH (1864-1940) & CLARA HARRIS (1870-1926). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, SHEPLEY VICKERS SMITH (1898-1918). HIS FATHER WAS AN ASSISTANT SUPERINDENTENT WITH PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE AND HAD SERVED IN THE SAME REGIMENT. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 14 FREEHOLD STRE […]
