Blain
Pte, James Blain, enlisted in the 13th EYR, at Hull City Hall in September 1914. He died of wounds in 1916, having served in Egypt and France. He left his wife Gertrude and 5 children at Holborn Street, Hull.
Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914 - 1918
The story of Hull in World War 1
Pte, James Blain, enlisted in the 13th EYR, at Hull City Hall in September 1914. He died of wounds in 1916, having served in Egypt and France. He left his wife Gertrude and 5 children at Holborn Street, Hull.
Henry George Bacon, left a wife and seven children at 90 Porter Street, Hull, when his ship sank in the Indonesian sea, on the 17th November 1917.
Pte, Walter Morrod, killed with the East Yorkshire Pioneers at Gallipoli left a wife and 5 children at 2 Anvil Terrace, Spring Street. He was killed on 21st August 1915, aged 23 years old.
Pte, Mark Armstrong, from 6 Alaska Street, was killed at Serre on the 13th November 1916. He left his wife Jane and six children.
Sydney Herbert Hick, Royal Navy died on the 20th August 1918, leaving a widow Violet and a 10 day old baby.
Pte, James Clater from Holland Street left 7 children when he was killed on the 27th January 1918. Skipper, John Henry ROUSE, was lost with all hands, on the Steam Trawler, ‘Oxford’, on the 10th September 1914. He left his wife Elizabeth and 9 children at 35 Scarborough Street.
Pte. William Oswald Stones, KRRC, was killed on the 25th July 1916. He left his Wife Emma and 8 orphans, at 79 Clarendon Street.
Pte, James Henry Beal was killed in 1915 aged 37. He left his widow Mary Elizabeth Beal and ten children at 10 Claremont Avenue, Day Street.
My name is Paul Bishop. I have lived and worked in Hull, for the last 35 years. My interest in the Hull Memorial started in the mid 1980’s, when I lived in Folkestone Street, off Sculcoates Lane, in Hull. While waiting outside a white, telephone box (this was before mobile phones!), I noticed the ‘Great … Read more
Pte, Joseph Frederick Childs, formerly of the Manchester Regiment died of wounds on the 4th June 1922. He was 31years old and the son of James and Margaret Childs from 16 Spittle Street. His brother William Herbert Childs had also died of wounds in Hull on the 2nd December 1915, aged 22. Their father, Pte, … Read more