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BORN BEVERLEY, 1893. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SON OF THOMAS STRAKER (1850-1913) AND ELIZA IRELAND (1854-1932). SON OF A BLACKSMITH. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. WAS CAUGHT PILFERING A FRUIT WHAREHOUSE, IN WALKERGATE, BEVERLEY, AGED 12 AND APPEARED IN THE NEWSPAPERS. HE WORKED AS A DRILLER, LIVING WITH HIS FAMILY AT 21 LAUNDRESS LANE, […]

BORN BASFORD, NOTTINGHAM ON 25/02/1899. SON OF ALBERT EDWARD STRAKER AND ELLEN PARR. HIS MOTHER, LIVED AT THIS HULL ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN NOTTINGHAM. SERVED WITH THE 5TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/04/1918, AGED 19. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. UNMARRIED. HE LEFT HIS ARMY EFFECTS TO HIS MOTHER ELL […]

BORN NORTH FERRIBY 1898. KNOWN AS "TOM". SON OF GEORGE STRAKER & AMELIA CAMPBELL, AT 80 NICHOLSON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A MOULDER, EMPLOYED BY THE BRITANNIA, OIL AND CAKE MILLS, WINCOLMLEE, HULL. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 3.5 INCHES TALL, 125 LBS, AND 35 INCH CHEST. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 21/05/1916, AGED 17 AND 9 MONTHS. TRAN […]

BORN NORWAY 1873. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. UNTRACED.

BORN HULL 27/10/1887. SON OF HENRY & MARY AGNES (SALTMER). NEXT OF KIN SISTER CLARA HOLLINGS, LEEDS.

BORN BEVERLEY 1890. SON OF JOHN & LAVINIA STRAUGHAN ABOVE. LISTED ON KINGS HALL CHURCH ROH, SYMONST ST. HULL HEROES WEB SITE.

BORN HULL 1885. ENLISTED GRIMSBY. WIFE CLARA (HARDY) LIVED GRIMSBY.

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF JOSEPH EDWIN STRETTON & FLORENCE (MARKHAM) OF SCARBOROUGH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). KILLED AT SEA, ON 20/08/1917, AGED 21. LISTED IN THE  HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 22/10/1917, BY HIS PARENTS, BROTHER, COUSIN AND SWEETHEART, GLADYS.

BORN WASSAND, YORKSHIRE, 16/03/1860. ELDEST SON OF THE LATE HENRY STRICKLAND-CONSTABLE (1821-1909) & CORNELIA CHARLOTTE ANNE DUMARESQ (1837-1911). EDUCATED AT ETON. COMMISSIONED TO THE HORSE GUARDS, IN 1880. PROMOTED CAPTAIN, IN 1884, MAJOR IN 1911, AND LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN 1913. HE MARRIED MARGARET ELIZABETH PAKENHAM (1873-1961) […]

BORN HULL 04/04/1888. SON OF JOHN ROBERT STRICKLAND (1861-1944) & ANNIE PILSWORTH (1862-1926), OF 104 WALKER STREET, HULL (1921 ADDRESS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. MARRIED MIRIAM PETCH (1888-1973), AT HULL, IN 1912. HIS WIFE MIRIAM AND SON WILLIAM (1913-1967) LIVED AT 16 HAROLD'S AVENUE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE WAS […]

BORN HULL 31/10/1876. SON OF GEORGE AND SARAH ANN STRIDE. A SEAMAN, WITH HIS BROTHERS, WALTER AND THOMAS. HE MARRIED IN 1901. HIS WIFE, SARAH ANN POTTER (1881-1953), LIVED AT 2 HOPE TERRACE, WALKER STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).  HE HAD 5 CHILDREN. SERVED ON THE TRAWLER, "SPEETON". LOST AT SEA, ON 31/12/1915, AGED 39. TWO DAUGHTERS, IVY AN […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. SECOND LIEUTENANT, DUDLEY STRINGER. Born in Hull in March 1884, Dudley was the eighth of twelve children to John (1843-1896) and Eleanor Stringer (1848-1921). Five of his siblings died in infancy, and his father too passed away in 1896, leaving his mother to raise the family. They moved to Goxhill in Lincolnshi […]

BORN FALKIRK 1880. SON OF GEORGE AND JANE STRONG. ENLISTED FALKIRK. HIS FAMILY LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. ATTACHED TO 'B' COMPANY 11TH BN HIGHLANDERS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 15TH SEPTEMBER 1916. HULL HEROES WEB SITE.

BORN HULL 1883. ORIGINAL HULL PAL. SON OF DANIEL & CAROLINE ABOVE. ALSO LIVED AT RUTLAND TERRACE, NORFOLK STREET. KILLED IN ACTION. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CHARLES WELTON STUART 11/1078. Born in July 1883, Charles was the youngest of three children to Daniel and Caroline Stuart of 6 May Villas, May Street, Hull. An Upholsterer b […]

BORN HULL 07/07/1884. SON OF CHARLES STUART (1854-1922) & MARY JANE LANCASTER (1853-1922), OF 1, APPLEBY TERRACE, ST PAULS STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A BRICKLAYER'S LABOURER. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, FREDERICK (1894-1955) AND ONE SISTER, AMY (1896-1971). BOTH PARENTS DIED IN 1922. HE WAS A STOCK BROKER'S CLERK. HE MARRIED […]

BORN HULL 25/10/1894. SON OF REUBAN STUBBINS & MARY ANN CRACROFT, AT 29, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. SON OF A FISHERMAN. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 2 BRUNSWICK TERRACE, SCULCOATES (1901 CENSUS) AND 105 SOMERSET STREET, (1911 CENSUS). BEFORE JOINING UP, HE WORKED AT J&A SMITHS. HE ENLIS […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF WILLIAM & LILLY MATHILDA SMITH (1865-1947), OF 2, ELDON GROVE, GRANVILLE STREET, HULL AND 112 HESSLE ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND . HIS FATHER RAN THE BUTCHER'S SHOP AT 112, HESSLE ROAD. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS, SYDNEY, HERBERT AND ALFRED. HE MARRIED CLARA CHAPMAN (1891-1940), AT ST LUKES CHURCH, HULL, ON 18TH […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF SARAH ELIZABETH YABSLEY (1846-1927) & EDWIN SMITH STUMBLES (1846-1909), OF 10 JACKVILLE TERRACE, FERRIES STREET, HULL (1901) HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1909. HE WORKED AS A LABOURER, LIVING AT 14 CROWLE AVANUE, CROWLE STREET, HULL (1911). ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER, THE R […]

Born Brighton, Sussex, 1889. Son of Charles and Susannah Sturt, of Brighton. He resided in Hull. Was a Professional Soldier. Joined the army aged 14 and served with the 12th Royal Lancers (1911 Census). Discharged after 13 years service, on 25th August 1915 Re- Enlisted in Oxford. Served with the 16th Royal Irish Rifles. Died of wounds, […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF WILLIAM SUDDABY (1856-1910) & THIRZA SMITH (1858-1931), AT 4 WALTERS TERRACE, CRAVEN STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL & 17 WELTON TERRACE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL. A SAWMILL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 02/08/1916, AGED 20, AT NO: 8 HOSPITAL, BOUL […]