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Pte, 716, Stanley Horsfield, was the first 10th East Yorkshire casualty of the war. He was the son of Geoffrey and Kate Horsfield at 10 Curzon Street. Stanley Horsfield, was a Painter by Trade and one of the first to join the Hull Pals Regiment. He was killed by a ‘Minnie’ explosion on the 29th … Read more

The first Hull man killed in the War, was Private, Frederick George Mileham, 18th Queen Mary’s Own Hussars. He died on the 24th August 1914. He was a regular soldier, who before the war had served in Egypt and India. He was 35 years old and the fourth son of George and Mary Ann Mileham … Read more

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.