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Lieutenant Edward Moore Robson M.C. Home at Pembroke Lodge. Pocklington, Yorks. Born at Pocklington in East Yorkshire in 1890, he became a barrister at Lincolns Inn in London. Joined the 5th Btn as a 2nd Lt at Pont de Nieppe near Armentieres on July 19th 1915 and fought in all the subsequent actions. He was killed on April 11th aged 28 […]

Born Driffield. Enslisted Beverley. resided Aldbrough. Formerly 26289, East Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to the 10th Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action on 20/09/1917. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium and the Aldbrough Village Memorial.

Born Thorngumbold, East Yorkshire, 1892. Son of Alfred Brown (1855-1946) and Ann Grange (1856-1928), of Far Barn, Paull, East Yorkshire. Son of a Farm Hand. He had three brothers and two sisters. He worked as a Farm Hand, on Boress Hill Paull (1911 Census). He enlisted in Beverley. Served as Private. William Brown, 33702, in the 2nd Y […]

Alfred John Briscol, served on HM Fleet "Messenger Hillingholme". He was killed in action, on 20/04/1916, in the North Sea. He was aged 34 and the first from the village of south Newbald to die in the war. He was married in Hull in 1911 and was well know in the merchant Navy community sailing many times from Hull. He was a member of the […]

Born Aldbrough, 1899. Son of Sarah Ann Pearce, of Elm Tree Row, Front Street, Aldbrough. Enlisted Beverley. Killed in action, on 27/03/1918, aged 19. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the Missing and the Aldbrough Village Memorial.

Born Seaham Harbour, Durham, 1881. Son of John and Annie Petrie; husband of Eveline Petrie, of 509, Anlaby Road Hull. He was educated at a private school. Worked as representative  S. Mordan and Co, Ltd and was well known amongst Jewellers, in Hull, London and throughout the Country. He married Everlina Johnson, at Sculcoates, Hull, in […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF WILLIAM AND HANNAH TINDLE, OF 30 BISHOP LANE, HULL. SECOND OF FIVE SONS. A WAREHOUSEMAN. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 21/08/1917, AGED 29. BURIED AT DIVISIONAL COLLECTING POST CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, BELGIUM. HIS ELDEST BROTHER, JOHN TINDLE, SERVED IN THE […]

Born Hull, 14/12/1899. Son of Francis Thompson (1876-1949) and Annie Eliza (Minnie) Butters (1878-1956), of 84 Welbeck Street, Hull (1911 Census) and 53 Staniforth Place, Hessle Road, Hull (Pension Ledger Address). Son of a Fish Dealer. He had three brothers and two sisters. He enlisted at Hull in 1916, aged 17. served as Private, No 57 […]

Born Brandesburton, 1887. Son of Henry Whitelock Metcalf, and Clara Elizabeth Metcalf, of Brandesburton, Hull. Educated at Hymer's College, Hull. Worked as a Chemist's Assistant, in Barnsley, Yorkshire. Enlisted Luton, Bedfordshire. Served as Acting Sergeant, in the 1/4th Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action at Loos, on 13/10/1915, […]

Eldest Son of W & H Cooper, of 99 Craven Street, Hull. Second Engineer, HMT "Lady Ismay". Previous to joining the Admiralty, he was employed at the fitting shops, of Grimsby. He is pictured in the Hull Daily Mail, on 17/02/1916. *

Born Lockington, Beverley, 1895. Son of Harriet Hayton, of Lund, Beverley. Employed as a Horseman on Farm Enlisted Driffield. Served as a Driver, Army Service Corps, 120th Coy. Died in Greece, on 12/04/1918, aged 22.

Borm Brandesburton, 1886. Son of John James and Hannah Shipley. Resided a Hull. Worked as a Waggoner on Sutton Farm. Enlisted Beverley. Formerly 2641, Yorkshire Regiment, Posted to the 4Th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Served as Private, 229074, 1st (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers). Killed in action, on 19/09/1918, aged 32. His army […]

Born Barton, Lincolnshire, 1865. Skipper, Henry Bust, was Captain, of the salvage steamer "Salvo N0:1", which turned turtle in a gale, off Peterhead, Scotland, on 06/02/1915. He drowned with his son and four other crew. He left a grown up family at 8 Wilfred's Terrace, Nornabell Street, Hull. His son was not married and aged 23. Their de […]

Born Hickling, Norfolk 1893. Son of Frederick George and Sarah Wright, of Albert Dock, Hull (CWGC Address). Living at 16 Londesborough Street, Hull (1911 census). His father was from Norfolk and worked as a bridge foreman. AS PER SOLDIER'S DIED IN THE GREAT WAR RECORDS - HE ENLISTED IN NORWICH. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 18002, NORFOLK REGIMENT […]

Born Aldbrough, Yorkshire, 1899. Son of William Francis Butler and Mrs. Ada Elizabeth Butler, of "Roseville," Aldbrough, Hull. Enlisted Hull. Formerly 114021, 5th Territorial Reserves. Transferred to the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers. Died action, on 27/05/1918, aged 18. Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, France. He is also record […]

Born Goxhill, Lincolnshire, 1891. Son of Henry and Alice Ann Bust, of Hull. Drowned with his father, Henry Bust, on the Hull salvage steamer, "Salvo No:1", which upturned, in a gale at Peterhead, on 06/02/1915. He was unmarried and aged 23. He left £166 in his will to his mother, Alice and this Probate address.

Captain Miles Radcliffe 2nd Bn. Border Regiment, 2nd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers 12th December 1914, aged 31. Special Memorial 2. Born Oldham, Lancashire, 10/10/1883. Son of Henry Miles Radcliffe, JP (1851-1908) and Eva Bertha Platt (1858-1950); He had one brother, Claude and two sisters, Gwendoline and Phyllis.  he marrie […]

Born Hull, 1882. Son of John Edward Tadman (1857-1897) and Rhoda Elizabeth Kirkwood. a Merchant Seaman. He married Ethel Margaret Kilvington, at Hull, in 19109. they lived at 49 Washington Street, Hull (HDM 28/02/1916). The Dido Steamship was a British Merchant steamer of 4,769grt. On the 26th February 1916 when on route from Hull for In […]

Born Hull 25/05/1898. Son of Oswald Malcolm Ellis (1871-1940) and Edith Josephine Smith (1873-1935). Lived 27 Denzil Avenue, Southampton. Eldest of two sons. GUY ELLIS was studying for his Intermediate Civil Service exam when, on 29th September 1915, he joined the London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles) at Dukes Road W.C. at the age of s […]