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BORN HULL 1893. SON OF THOMAS & LYDIA MARIA WEBB ABOVE - HDM ADDRESS. BROTHER CYRIL ALSO FELL. 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. BURIED AT ANZAC CEMETERY, SAILLY-SUR-LA-LYS, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "WORTHY OF EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE". Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE SYDNEY WILLIAM WEBB 22472. Born in Septemb […]

BORN WOODFORD, ESSEX 1889. SON OF CHARLES STANLEY & LILLY WEBB. AN AUCTIONEER'S CLERK. LIVED 22 DRAGON ROAD, HARROGATE (1911 CENSUS). HIS WIFE ANNIE ELIZABETH LANGTHORNE, LIVED AT 72 HARDY STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE HULL PALS, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. SURVIVED THE A […]

BORN POPLAR, EAST LONDON, 1882. SON OF HENRIETTA & WILLIAM WEBB. WIFE MARGARET (PONUS) LIVED AT 14 GARDEN SUBURBS, BRISTOL. HE SERVED ON THE HULL SHIP "JAFFA", LOST 02/02/1918. HE WAS AGED 39. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. Jaffa SS was built as a steel British Merchant steamship in 1897. Dimensions: […]

BORN HULL 1883. HULL PAL. SON OF WILLIAM EDGAR WEBB & CHARLOTTE ANN (ARRAN). ull Pals Memorial Posts. PRIVATE WILSON WEBB 10/774. Born 1884, Wilson was the younger of two sons to William and Charlotte Webb of 4 Barnsley Street, Hull. A Painter by trade, Wilson joined the queues for the fledgling battalion in those heady days of Septembe […]

BORN HULL 1893. KNOWN AS "ARTHUR". ONLY SON OF JOHN MILLS WEBB & MARY ELIZABETH (JACKLIN) WEBB, OF 39, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THREE SISTERS, EMILY, FLORENCE AND DORIS. BEFORE THE WAR ARTHUR WORKED AS A NER RAILWAY PORTER, AT KINGSTON STREET DEPOT. HE ENLISTED IN THE EYR TERRITORIALS ON 28/04/1910, AT THE AGE OF […]

BORN WEMBDON, BRIDGEWATER, SOMERSET 1851. SON OF THE LATE JOHN (1809-1871) & ELIZABETH WEBBER (1813-1899). ABLE SEAMAN. MARRIED ON 27/06/1875, AT SCULCOATES TO 1ST WIFE ALICE MARY WHITING (1854-1904). THEY HAD SIX CHILDREN. MARRIED AT HULL IN APRIL 1916, TO 2ND WIFE SARA ASHLEY OF 4 PLEASANT PLACE, GOODWIN STREET, HULL. LISTED ON T […]

BORN HULL 1878. SON OF ABEL & ALICE WEBBER. HUSBAND OF BEATRICE WEBBER, OF 104 EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL. LOST AT SEA. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 17/06/1918. WITH PHOTO. * Eros, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley in 1903 and owned at the time of her loss by Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co. Ltd., Hull, was a Brit […]

BORN HULL 1884. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION. MOTHER PAULINA NICHOLS & STEPDAD LAWRENCE NICHOLS ABOVE. BROTHER CHARLES H WEBBER & SISTER GERTRUDE. 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS.

Born 4 Jun 1869 • Woodbury, Exton, Devon, England. Son of George Webber (1849-1875) and Mary Ann Bassett (1844-1923). Joined the Navy in 1884 and served on HMS Impregnable. Served as Coastguard, on Sutton-on-Sea, King's Lynn, Hawsker and Bridlington. Married Margaret Cox (1872-1945) and had five children (1911 Census). He retired in 1912 […]

BORN LONDON 04/12/1896. STRAND. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL'S WALKER STREET MEMORIAL. HIS SISTER JANE LIVED IN FLEET STREET, HOLBORN, LONDON. COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL On 22 March 1918, the British sloop HMS Gaillardia, built by Blyth Shipbuilding in 1917, struck a British laid mine in the Northern Barrage, Pentland […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF CHARLES ALFRED WEBSTER (1862-1943) & MARY HERD (1861-1939), OF 422 HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. HE HAD A YOUNGER, BROTHER, STANLEY AND OLDER SISTER GERTRUDE, WHO BOTH LIVED AT HOME WITH THEIR PARENTS. BORN HULL 1893. HE WORKED FOR HIS FATHER'S PLUMBER BUSINESS, AT THORNTON LODGE, HOLDERNESS ROAD. HE WAS WELL KNOWN […]

BORN HULL 1882. SON OF THOMAS WEBSTER (1852-1926) & MARY ANN PEGDEN (1854-1930), OF 19 , LISTER STREET, HULL.. HE MARRIED MITTIAM GRACE MUSSON, AT HULL, IN 1905. THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS. EMPLOYED AS A MARINE ENGINEER. HE LIVED AT 134 CLUMBER STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE 1ST EAST […]

BORN HULL, 02/11/1889. SECOND SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM WEBSTER (1854-1941) & EVELINE ROSE PEARSON (1862-1922), OF 113. WESTBOURNE AVNEUE, HULL. HIS MOTHER WAS THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF ZACHARIAH CHARLES PEARSON, THE HULL PHILANTHROPIST. HIS FATHER WORKED FOR ROSE DOWNS AND THOMPSONS, THE HULL SEED CRUSHING COMPANY. HE WAS ONE OF ELEVEN […]

BORN HULL 1896. YOUNGEST SON OF WILLIAM WEBSTER & CHARLOTTE WEBSTER (1860-1924), AT 26 PEASE STREET, HULL AND 36 PEARSON STREET, PROSPECT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WAS A FORMER WHEELER STREET SCHOLAR AND A CLEANER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. ALSO A MEMBER OF THE HULL & DISTR […]

Born Burton Agnes, Driffield, Yorkshire, on 27/09/1893. Son of George and Mary Jane Webster, at North Lodge, Wilberforce, York. A Blacksmiths son working at North Burton, Hunmanby, East Yorkshire (1911 Census) Served as a Private, with the Royal Marine Light Infantry, Portsmouth Bn. R.N. Divison. Killed at Gallipoli, on 06/05/1915, ag […]

BORN HULL 04/11/1898. SON OF ALFRED WEBSTER (1871-1936) & FRANCES ELEANOR FOSTER (1868-1940), OF 4 WHARRAM STREET, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. WORKED AS AN OIL MILLER AT THE BRITISH OIL AND CAKE MILLS, HULL. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 10 INCHES TALL, 36 INCH CHEST, 134 LBS WEIGHT. ENLISTED BEVERLEY, ON 03/06/1916. FORMERLY, […]

BORN HULL 1889. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM AND LYDIA WEBSTER, OF 1 ALEXANDRA TERRACE, LONDESBOROUGH STREET, HULL. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. HIS WIFE LIILIAN MAY WEBSTER & 4 CHILDREN LIVED AT 128, BALFOUR STREET, HULL. PRIOR TO WAR HE WORKED AS A FISH & FRUIT SELLER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. REPORTED M […]

BORN HULL, J1893. SON OF JOHN AND ANNIE WEBSTER, OF 8 SARAH ANN TERRACE, ST PAUL STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED EMILY ROBINSON, AT HULL, IN 1915. HIS WIFE ETHEL EMILY WEBSTER & 3 CHILDREN, LIVED AT 16 ANNIE TERRACE, WALLER STREET, HULL & 2 VICTORIA AVENUE, ST MARK STREET, HULL (War Pension address). EMPLOYED AS AN OIL MILLER. ENLISTE […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF OCTAVIUS WEBSTER (1862-1931) & MARY EMILY SHAW (1869-1906), OF 14 ROSE TERRACE, ALFRED STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER, ETHEL SMITH. A CASUAL LABOURER, WORKING IN PONTERFRACT. HE JOINED THE REGULAR ARMY THERE, ON 03/03/1911. DESCRIBED IN HIS ARMY RECORDS, AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, […]

BORN HULL 1879. JAMES SERVED AS WEBSTER, BUT 'KELLY' WAS HIS TRUE FAMILY NAME. HIS WIFE, FLORENCE KELLY & TWO CHILDREN LIVED AT 14 NEWPORT TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 1317, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 3RD MACHINE GUN COMPANY.  DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 27/05/1916, AGED 37. NEWS O […]