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BORN HULL 1874. BEFORE THE WAR JOHN HAD SERVED 34 MONTHS IN THE BOER WAR WHERE HE RECEIVED TWO CAMPAIGN MEDALS. HE THEN WORKED AT EARLES SHIP BUILDING YARD. HE MARRIED ON 09/04/1898. LEFT WIDOW, ELIZABETH WRIGHT AND SIX CHILDREN AT 18 SALISBURY TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND WAS KIL […]

BORN HESSLE 1874. MARRIED AT ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, BOULEVARD, ON 20/04/1897. HIS WIFE ELIZA PADDISON (1875-1960) LIVED AT 8 SUBWAY STREET, HULL. SON OF GEORGE SELLERS (1842-1903) & ELIZABETH WRIGHT. A MARINE ENGINEER. LOST AT SEA, ON 09/05/1917, AGED 43. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. The fishing vessel, W […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF EDWARD WRIGHT AND ADA MARY CREAM, OF 6 RODNEY STREET, HULL. ELDEST OF EIGHT CHILDREN. SERVED AS A ROYAL ENGINEER BUGLER FOR TWO YEARS IN 1908. MARRIED IN HULL, ON 02/04/1914. HIS WIFE FLORENCE MAUD MARLING, LIVED AT 79 CHILTERN STREET, HULL. WORKED AS A FRUIT MERCHANT CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 17/10/1914, AGED […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF GEORGE HENRY & MARY WRIGHT, OF 175 CLEVELAND STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). WIFE HANNAH BRADY WRIGHT, LIVED AT 12 SEATON STREET, HULL AND IN LEEDS. EMPLOYED AS A TIMBER MERCHANT'S CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. KILLED ON 20/01/1918, AGED 26. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN […]

BORN HULL 1878.  SON OF MARY ELLEN MOODY & THOMAS WRIGHT, OF 27 DALTRY STREET, HULL.(1911 CENSUS). HUSBAND OF SUSANNA DAWSON (1863-1950), AT 9 LILLY GROVE, REGENT STREET, HULL. A FORMER NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY COAL TEAMER FOR TEN YEARS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 23/04/19 […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF HENRY GRASBY WRIGHT (1854-1904) & KATE BRADBURY WRIGHT, OF 66 BRIDLINGTON STREET, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE WAS ONE OF THREE SONS LOST IN THE WAR. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 5 WATERHOUSE LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS), WHERE THEY RAN A TOBACCONIST BUSINESS. HE WORKED AS A BUSINESS ASSISTANT. HE ENLISTED IN THE […]

BORN SUTTON 14/07/1895. STEP SON OF ELIZABETH SIMPSON (1876-1963) AND SAMUEL STEPHENSON (1873-1949). HE HAD FIVE STEP BROTHERS AND TWO STEP SISTERS. WORKED AS A FARM HAND, AT LAYFIELD HOUSE, BELLFIELD VAENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED LEEDS. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 24560, WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. DIED […]

BORN HULL 1883. EX RECKITTS BRICKLAYER. WIFE MARY WRIGHT & 4 CHILDREN ABOVE. SON OF HENRY & ELIZABETH MARY WRIGHT. ALSO LIVED AT 87 CEYLON STREET, HULL.

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & JUDITH BURN WRIGHT, OF 48 GREAT THORNTON STREET, HULL AND 71 WALKER STREET, HULL. SON OF A WHITE SMITH AND LOCKSMITH. THE FOURTH OF SIX CHILDREN. HE  HAD ONE BROTHER, GEORGE AND THREE SISTERS, EDITH, MARY AND JUDITH. HE WORKED AS A WHITESMITH. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED A SAPPER, IN THE 208TH EAST RI […]

Second Mate, S.S. Thames, Mercantile Marine, †14/08/1917, (Served as MACDONALD). Son of the late Samuel and Charlotte Wright; husband of Honor Wright (nee Feeney), of 10, Villiers St. Sunderland and above address. Born in Ireland, 1876. Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial Thames SS was a British Steam Coaster of 403 tons built in 1910 by Goole […]

PRIVATE SAMUEL ESMOND WRIGHT 10/1370. Born Hull, 1897, Samuel was the youngest of five children, to Samuel (1858- 1986) and Lily Hodgson (1864-1929), of 9 Pleasant Place, Walker Street, Hull. He enlisted at City Hall, originally in the 10th Battalion before being transferred to the 11th, and he served in Egypt before arriving in France e […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF HENRY GRASBY WRIGHT (1854-1904) & KATE BRADBURY WRIGHT, OF 66 BRIDLINGTON STREET, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE WAS ONE OF THREE SONS LOST IN THE WAR. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 5 WATERHOUSE LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS), WHERE THEY RAN A TOBACCONIST BUSINESS. HE MARRIED WINIFRED HIGGINS AT HULL, IN 1915, HIS WIFE […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF EDWIN WRIGHT AND OLIVE ELIZABETH ADDISON (1855–1942), OF THWAITE GARDENS, COTTINGHAM (PENSION ADDRESS). A GARDENER AT THWAITE HOUSE WITH HIS FATHER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 403, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. DROWNED, ON […]

BORN HULL 1895. SCULCOATES. SON OF ROBERT ANTHONY WRIGHT (1870-1938) & ELLEN WINSTANLEY (1869 -1937), OF  5 DERBY AVENUE, BRIGHT STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. BROTHER OF JOHN ROBERT WRIGHT. HE HAD TWO SISTERS, MARY EMMA AND ALEXANDRA. EMPLOYED AS AN OIL MILL PAINTER.  ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT […]

PRIVATE THOMAS McMORRAN WRIGHT, 12/1215. Born in Hull, 1884. Thomas was one of seven children to Harriet Wright. A Salesman by trade, he was employed by Messers, Rymers, of Cave Street, Hull. He married Jessie Robbs at St. Mark's Church on 1st May 1910 and the couple lived with their son Thomas Jnr at 8 Mason View, Cumberland Street, […]

BORN ABERDEEN 1893. SON OF GEORGE AND ELLEN WRIGHT. HIS FATHER WAS A FISHERMAN. HIS MOTHER, ELLEN, WAS BORN IN HULL AND LIVED AT 60, MARMADUKE STREET, HULL. HE SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY AS A MARINE FIREMAN. HE MARRIED EMILY FRANCES SPINK (1896-1981), FROM 6 EDGAR STREET, HULL, AT ST BARNABAS CHURCH, HESSLE ROAD, ON 21/06/1914. THEY HAD […]

BORN HULL 1898. ONLY CHILD OF GEORGE WILLIAM BAXTER WRIGHT & HANNAH MAY WRIGHT, OF 5 BELMONT STREET, NEWBRIDGE ROAD, HULL. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. EMPLOYED AS A GROCERS APPRENTICE. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 32-34 INCH CHEST HE ENLISTED, ON 12/12/1915 AT HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 24629, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. MOBILIZED ON […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF WILLIAM AND CLARA WRIGHT, OF 28  PARK VILLAS, COTTINGHAM, HULL. ASSISTANT SCHOOL MASTER AT NORTON COUNCIL SCHOOL, IN MALTON. SECRETARY OF THE MALTON, RIFLE CLUB. A MEMBER OF THE ST JOHN'S AMBULANCE BRIGADE. MEMBER OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH CHOIR. SERVED AS SECOND LIEUTENANT, IN THE 17TH WELSH FUSILIERS. KILLED I […]

Born Grimsby 1900. Son of John William Wrightham (1868-1947) and Jane Eliza Balch (1868-1941), of 14 Somerset Terrace, Gillette Street, Hull (War Pension address). Son of a Cooper. He had four brothers and one sister. Enlisted Hull. Served with the 5th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Killed in action, on 12/09/1918, aged 18. He is […]

BORN BRIDLINGTON 1877. SON OF JOHN & JANE ANN WROOT. HE MARRIED FLORENCE ADA ROGERS, IN 1901. WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY SINCE 1910 IN WEST HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH DISTINCTION AT GALLIPOLI. SUFFERED FROM YELLOW JAUNDICE IN GREECE. WAS KILLED IN FRANCE, ON 15/09/1916, AGED 39. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE […]