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BORN AT 3 KILN LIME WALK, GREAT YARMOUTH 1896. SON OF ALBERT ALEXANDER WATERS (1871-1937) & ELLEN ROWLAND (1871-1956), OF 52, REDBOURNE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 29/03/1918, AGED 21. UNMARR […]

BORN HULL 20/03/1895. SON OF ALEXANDER HUTCHINSON WATERS (1859-1900) AND MRS KATE KINGSTON, OF 51 HEDON ROAD, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. A SAWMILL LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6.5 INCHES TALL, 148 LBS WEIGHT, 37 INCH CHEST, BROWN EYES, DARK BROWN HAIR, . ENLISTED HULL, ON 30/09/1914. SERVED WITH THE HULL PALS IN EGYPT […]

BORN HULL 1881. NEWLANDS. SON OF JOHN WATERS & HANNAH HEPWORTH (1856-1920), OF DRAX. HE HAD SEVEN SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS. HE MARRIED AT GARFORH ON 21/11/1908. HUSBAND OF MARY WAITE, AT HAWKSHAW COTTAGE, GARFORTH.  THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN, GEORGE, LILIAN, ANNIE & ALICE. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A CARTER. HE ENLISTED AT GOOLE. SERVED […]

BORN ALDERSHOT 05/06/1860. SON OF JAMES B & ANN MOWETT. MARRIED MARTHA ANSELL, AT ST LUKES, HULL, ON 29/10/1879. 14 CHILDREN - SONS FRANK NORMAN & GEORGE ROBERT WATERS ALL SERVED IN THE WAR. SHIP FOUNDERED. HE LEFT £359 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW, MARTHA AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS. NO CWGC RECORDS OF DEATH

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF EDWARD STEPHENSON & ANNIE ELIZABETH WATERS, OF 39 , EXCHANGE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). CORN MERCHANY CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 255TH ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED IN FRANCE, ON 15/09/1918, AGED 24. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL'S, EXCHANGE STREET ROH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF JAMES CHARLES WATERSON & JANE ANN WATERSON ABOVE. WAS AN APPRENTICE MARINE ENGINEER. HE ENLISTED IN THE RFA IN MARCH 1914 AND WAS SENT TO FRANCE IN JANUARY 1915. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT LOOS, ON 25/09/1915, AGED 19. HIS BROTHER GUNNER, F. WATERSON WAS A HULL POLICE MAN AND STATIONED AT PARLIAMENT STREET. THE […]

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF GEORGE WATKIN & MARY ELIZABETH ETHERINGTON, OF 12 PITT STREET, ALBERT AVENUE, HULL. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1915. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN APRIL 1913. HIS WIFE ELSIE (BLACKBOURNE) & DAUGHTER PHYLLIS - 13 ROSEBERY STREET, ALBERT AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS A […]

BORN HULL 11/12/1895. SON OF CHARLES ROBERT & RACHEL ANN WATKIN, OF 37 WALCOTT STREET, HULL. EDUCATED AT CONSTABLE STREET BOARD SCHOOL. WAS A BOILER SCALER.. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 07/11/1914. TRANSFERRED TOTHE 7TH EYR. SERVED WITH BEF IN FRANCE, AS A SIGNALER FOR ROYAL ENGINEERS. PROMOTED TO LANCE CORPORAL. WOUNDED ON 10TH AP […]

BORN HULL DEC 1875. SON OF ROBERT & ELIZABETH WATKINSON 1881 MARRIED SEPT 1897 HULL - WIFE MARGARET ANN (FALL) LIVED IN SWANSEA. Khartoum, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull in 1899 and owned at the time of her loss by Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., Hull, was a British fishing vessel of 303 tons. On March 26th, 1916, […]

BORN FILEY 1891. LIVED IN HULL. ENLISTED AT HULL. SON OF ANN ELIZA WATKINSON. HE LIVED WITH HIS GRANDPARENTS AND UNCLE AT 31 QUEENS STREET, FILEY, WHERE HE WORKED AS A FAMILY BOOT DEALER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE,  8799 ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 10TH WEST SURREY REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/08/1917, AG […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF ROBERT (1854-1924) & ANN WATKINSON (1855-1941) OF 11, FIELD STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. (HDM 08/08/1917). SON OF A CLERK AND TIMEKEPPER AT THE LOCAL OIL SEED MILL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, WILLIAM AND ONE SISTER, BEATRICE. EMPLOYED AS A RATE COLLECTOR. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 16/06/1916. SERVE […]

BORN HULL 1885. SECOND SON OF THE LATE MR GEORGE LAING AND JULIA KATE WATMOUGH, 404 HESSLE ROAD. EMPLOYED AS A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER AND SALESMAN. MARRIED LILY ROBINSON IN 1910. HIS WIFE LILY WATMOUGH LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. FORMERLY 4503, Northumberland Fus. and 151002 R.H.A and R.F.A. HE WAS K […]

BORN HIBALDSTOWE, LINCS 1892. SON OF THOMAS WATMOUGH (1853-1939) & EMMA RABY (1854-1927), OF 38 WELESLEY STREET, HULL . ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE MARRIED ELSIE MARY ANSTEE ON 24/07/1913. HIS WIFE ELSIE MARY LIVED AT 9 , WASHINGTON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) & LATER MOVED TO RICHMOND, SURREY. HE STUDIED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LON […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1887. SON OF EMMA BROOKS (1846-1922) & FREDERICK WATSON (1843-1904), AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS.  HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. LIVED IN BEVERLEY. WORKED AS A CLERK FOR A COAL MERCHANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE SERGEANT, IN THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 21/09/1916, AGED 30. BURIED AT CORBIE, ON […]

BORN HULL 1891. LIVED GLASGOW. ENLISTED AYR. SON OF HENRY WILSON WATSON (1855-1929) & MARGARET RAMSEY GLEN, OF 3 FREDERICK TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS). BOTH PARENTS CAME FROM SCOTLAND. HIS FATHER WAS A HAIRDRESSER IN HULL. THE FAMILY LATER LIVED AT AT ASHTON UNDER LYME AND BLYTHSWOOD,  GLASGOW. HE ENLISTED IN AYR. […]

Born Hull, 1900. Son of Harry Watson (1853-1912) and Friederika Anna Maria Portz (1855–1915). He resided at, 4, Poplar Terrace, Bean Street, Hull (War Pension address). Served as Private, 75293, Northumberland Fusiliers. Died pf Tuberculosis, on 18/01/1922, aged 22.

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF JOHN & EMMA WATSON, OF 6 BROOKSIDE VILLAS, GRANGE STREET, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL. EX 22728 DUBLIN FUSILIERS. TRANSFERRED TO THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED AT THE SOMME, ON 06/09/1916. INVALIDED TO THE QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL, WHALLEY, LANCASHIRE. RETURNED TO DUTIES WITH THE MACHINE GUN COPRS. KILLED IN ACTION, O […]

Jack Watson was a well known Hull Fisherman. He worked for 15 years with the St Andrew's Fishing Company. He was washed away, on the Steam Trawler "Electric", and drowned with Joseph William Pettman, on 18/09/1916. Jack Watson left a widow and five children (three under 14), living at 13 Crown terrace, Walcott Street. His death was repor […]

BORN HEDON 1881. SON OF THE LATE JAMES WATSON (1848-1909) AND MARGARET YETTS RUTHERFORD (1855-1920), of HOLYROOD HOUSE, HEDON, HULL. SON OF A SOLICITOR OF MESSRS, WATSON, CARRICK & SONS, PARLIAMENT STREET, HULL. HE BELONGED TO A FAMILY WELL KNOWN IN HULL AND HOLDERNESS. HE WAS EDUCATED AND TRAINED FOR A MILITARY CAREER AND HAD SEEN S […]

Born Rosedale Abbey, Pickering, North Yorkshire, on 22/06/1873. Son of Tom Bailey (1845-1826) and Sarah Watson; Husband of Mary Jane (Thorp) Watson, of  34 Market Place, Beverley and later 19, Avondale Terrace, Shirebrook, Mansfield. Educated at Middlesbrough. A former labourer. He joined the army at Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1895, aged […]