BORN HULL 1887. LIVED & ENLISTED NEWCASTLE. SON OF STEPHEN & JANE ALLAN. WIFE ROSINA, BYKER, NEWCASTLE. SOLDIERS DIED & CWGC RECORDS. HE IS BURIED AT FLATIRON COPSE CEMETERY, MAMETZ, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GARVE READS, "AT REST".
Lance Sergeant
16 KINGSLEY TERRACE, NEWCASTLE, TYNE AND WEAR, NORTH EAST ENGLAND, United Kingdom
Died on
02/07/1916
Aged
22
Born Elswick, 02/08/1894. Son of Henry Thompson Chapman and Mary Agnes Chapman, of 41, Kingsley Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne. A Lance Sergeant in the 16th Northumberland Fusilers. He died of wounds, received on the Somme, on 02/07/1916, aged 22. He left £106 in his will to his father, Henry, who was a Saddler. He died in Hull and is burie […]
92 CLAVERING PLACE, NEWCASTLE, TYNE AND WEAR, NORTH EAST ENGLAND, United Kingdom
Died on
09/05/1918
Aged
34
A Railway Porter. He enlisted in Hull, joining the 17th Northumberland Fusiliers, know as the 'Railway Pals'. As per CWGC records, he was the son of Isabella McCall, of 92, Clavering Place, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Native of Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Scotland. Killed in action on 9th May 1918, during the German Spring Offensive. His age was give […]
BORN NEWCASTLE, 1874. ENLISTED NEWCASTLE. BURIED HULL. SON OF MRS E MURPHY, 23 SUNDERLAND STREET, NEWCASTLE. CWGC ADDRESS.
BORN HULL. ENLISTED HARROGATE. DIED HOME. BURIED ST ANDREWS & JESMOND CHURCHYARD, NEWCASTLE.
94 NEWGATE STREET, NEWCASTLE, TYNE AND WEAR, NORTH EAST ENGLAND, UK
Died on
30/09/1916
Aged
31
BORN HULL 6/01/1885. SON OF JOHN & ELIZABETH OCKELTON, NEWCASTLE ABOVE. ENLISTED NEWCASTLE ON 27/11/1915. EX 28117, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. ARRIVED FRANCE ON 6/07/1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE 8TH YORK AND LANCS ON 10/09/1916. HIS BROTHER JAMES HAD BEEN KILLED ON THE SOMME FOUR DAYS EARLIER. ROBERT WAS UNMARRIED, HIS PARENTS DECEASED AND HI […]
Able Seaman
BORN HULL 04/04/1871. SON OF LUDWIG FREIDERICH (LOUIS) WITT AND EMMA LAMB. HIS FATHER WAS A SHIP STEWARD, FROM GERMANY, HIS MOTHER, WAS BORN IN HULL. HUSBAND OF GEORGINA DEBNAM WITTY (1876-1925), OF 76 CLARE STREET, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE (PROBATE ADDRESS). HE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, ON 15/05/1890. LOST AT SEA, ON 24/01/1918, AGED 47 […]
