Area: Cottingham, East Riding

BORN COTTINGHAM, 19/11/1895. SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM ASHTON (1860-1927) & MARY HANNAH LAWSON (1859-1937), OF 151 HALLGATE, COTTINGHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A PLUMBER AND GAS FITTER. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. WORKED AS A PLUMBER AND IRON MONGER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 16/11/1914, AGED 20. SERVED AS A PRIVATE, IN […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1897. SON OF HERBERT ATKINSON AND LUCY HOPPER, OF COTTINGHAM AND DUNSWELL. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN COTTINGHAM. SERVED IN THE 23RD TYNESIDE SCOTTISH. DIED A PRISONER OF WAR, ON 01/07/1918, AGED 21. BURIED IN GERMANY. HE LEFT £57 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER HERBERT WHO WAS A FARMER. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE […]

BORN YORK 1884. SON OF THE LATE REBECCA PENROSE (1847-1912) & MARK BARAM (1847-1888), YORK. A WAGGONER. HE LIVED WITH HIS BROTHER, CHARLES, ON HARLAND RISE FARM, COTTINGHAM. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 10/09/1915. PROMOTED TO LANCE SERGEANT. HE SERVED WITH THE 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 30/03/ […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1896. ENLISTED HULL. DIED AT HOME. ADOPTED SON OF HENRY & ADA EVANS, COTTINGHAM. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON COTTINGHAM METHODIST CHURCH WW1 PLAQUE. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES MONTAGUE BARBER 21247. Born in 1896, James lost his parents before he had chance to know them and was adopted by Henry and Ada Evans of […]

BORN NAFFERTON 22/04/1881. SON OF HENRY BARR AND ANNE FORBES - 1 BELGRAVE VILLAS, CARTWRIGHT LANE, BEVERLEY. SERVED SIX YEARS WITH THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS IN 1906. WORKED AS A CARTER AT MARKET GREEN , COTTINGHAM. WORKED AS A GALVANIZER IN CANADA. ENLISTED IN THE CEF ON 11/03/1915. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 6 FOOT 2 INCHES TALL, 41 I […]

BORN YORK 1893. SON OF FRANCIS BRYAN BIELBY (1853-1932) & MARY JANE WISE (1855-1910), OF 71 GOODWIN STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND NORTH MOOR FARM, COTTINGHAM, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A FARM WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 17/04/1915. TRANSFERRED […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1888. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF WALTER AND MARY BILTON, OF 204 KINGS STREET, COTTINGHAM, HULL . HE WAS A VAN DRIVER BEFORE THE WAR. KILLED IN ACTION ON 18/7/1917, AGED 29. HE WAS SINGLE AND HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS MOTHER. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE COTTINGHAM ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DA […]

BORN HULL, 12/08/1890. SON OF THOMAS BOND (1868-1942) & EDITH JULIA BOND (1865-1890), OF HULL, OTTRINGHAM AND COTTINGHAM. HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS. WORKED AS A RAILWAY CLERK, LIKE HIS FATHER. HE EMIGRATED TO CANADA, IN 1914. ENLISTED IN CANADA, ON 23/09/1914. JOINED THE 11TH COLUMBIA BLACK WATCH. A CANADIAN SCOTTISH REGIME […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1/04/1896. SON OF FRED BRUMBY (1861-1925) & ANN GRANTHAM (1860-1948), OF 1, FINKLE STREET, COTTINGHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. HE WORJED AS A NURSERYMAN, IN COTTINGHAM (1911 CENSUS) BEFORE JOINING THE ARMY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1ST COLDREAM GUARD. WENT TO FRANCE WITH […]

BORN SOUTH DALTON, YORKS, 1887. SON OF LAVINIA (ANN) NORRIS (1854-1924) & WILLIAM BRYAN (1844-1924), OF BRICKYARD HOUSES, DALTON HOME, BEVERLEY. HE MARRIED FANNY POOLE, ON 05/05/1913, AT HEALAUGH, TADCASTER.. HE WORKED AS A GAMEKEEPER. LIVED AT RAYWELL, COTTINGHAM. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 09/02/1916, AGED 29 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. […]

The Salvation Army was active in Cottingham in 1915. Many of them fought in the war and survived. The only member of the Salvation Army Band to lose his life in the war was Robert Bursell, when he was sixteen, though he looks younger. Robert Ernest Bursell (born 1899) was the son of Frederick, a labourer with Cottingham Urban District Co […]

BORN HULL 1899. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM GUY BURSTALL & RUTH SKINNER, OF COTTINGHAM AND WEST GARTH, DRIFFIELD. EDUCATED AT  HYMERS COLLEGE, HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE ON THE 6TH JULY 1917. HE SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND WAS ATTACHED TO THE 1ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT ST QUENTIN, ON 24/ […]

BORN HULL 1886. YOUNGEST SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & CHARLOTTE ABOVE. ON COTTINGHAM ROH.

BORN COTTINGHAM 1898. SON OF JOHN CHARLESWORTH, AT PARK ROW, COTTINGHAM. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED 11/10/1917, AGED 19. UNMARRIED HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER. HE LEFT A YOUNGER SISTER, RACHEL. HE IS BURIED AT CONDE-SUR-L'ESCAUT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, […]

BORN SHEFFIELD, 1896. SON OF TOM AND MARY ELLEN CHARLESWORTH. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, WITH THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. DIED ON 21/02/1915, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS FATHER TOM. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL.

Son of Nehemiah Churchill and Hannah Plumb. John Churchill (Lance Corporal, Regimental Number 8109) was not a native of Cottingham. He had been born in Netherton, near Dudley in Staffordshire on 6th June 1885 and had only joined the East Riding Constabulary in February 1914. He was stationed in Cottingham and lodged with Mr Teasdale of […]

BORN HULL 1872. SON OF GEORGE & ANNA COOK - 15 FLORENCE VILLAS, ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL. LISTED AS SHIPS CAPTAIN ON THE HULL ELLERMANS WILSON LINE WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR. THIS WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE LEFT £614 TO WIDOW CLARA COOK. IIBIS SS was built in 1898 by Neptun AG, Rostock, Germany as the HEDWIG SS a German cargo steamer for Flen […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1893. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM AND ADA COUPLAND. HIS TWO SISTERS LIVED AT 47, EDGAR STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A MILL HAND. HE MARRIED ALICE HAYTON, AT HULL REGISTRY OFFICE ON 27/03/1915. HIS WIFE AND TWO SONS, LEONARD (1915-1918) AND THOMAS (1916-2001), LIVED AT 129, NORTH GATE, COTTINGHAM, EAST YORKSHIRE (WAR PEN […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1891. SECOND SON OF EDWARD & LUCY DICKINSON OF GEORGE STREET, COTTINGHAM (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A JOINER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER. EMPLOYED AS A BRICKLAYER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/06/1917, AGED 26. COMMEMORATED AO THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, A […]