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BORN HULL 1897. ENLISTED HULL. DIED. EX 4936 EYR. SON OF TIMOTHY WELSH ABOVE. ARMY RECORD ADDRESS. DOCK LABOURER

BORN HULL 1887. LIVED GOOLE. KILLED IN ACTION. REGULAR SOLDIER. BURIED AT VENDRESSE BRITISH CEMETERY, AISNE, FRANCE

BORN SWINEFLEET 1883. SON OF RICHARD WALSH (1852-1930) & KATE DEMPSEY (1857-1924), OF 3 ALPHA AVENUE, GLASS HOUSE ROW, STONEFERRY, HULL & 3, ALPHA AVENUE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/04/1918, AGED 3 […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN WELTON (1857-1941) & ALICE BLANCHARD, OF, 163, WOODCOCK STREET (1911 CENSUS & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE WAS SON OF A RAILWAY ENGINE DRIVER. EMPLOYED AS A 'CORN MAN' AND FARM WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 2ND DECEMBER 1917, AGED 26. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS […]

BORN HULL 1894. SECOND SON OF WILLIAM WEYMESS (1856-1917) & FANNY MARIA LONG (1859-1934), OF 78, ENGLISH STREET, HULL. SON OF A SCOTTISH, SEA CAPTAIN. THE FOURTH OF FIVE CHILDREN. ELDER SISTERS, JANE AND EDITH WHO LIVED AT 78 ENGLISH STREET. OLDER BROTHER, WILLIAM WHO WORKED IN SCUNTHORPE. YOUNGER BROTHER STANLEY, WHO LIVED AT 2 HALL […]

BORN HULL 1895. THIRD SON OF WILLIAM WEYMESS (1856-1917) & FANNY MARIA LONG (1859-1934), of 78 ENGLISH STREET, HULL. SON OF A SCOTTISH, SEA CAPTAIN, FROM DUNDEE.. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. EDUCATED AT TRINITY HOUSE NAVIGATIONAL SCHOOL. EMPLOYED AS A FRUIT BROKER'S CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY ON 08/09/1914, AT THE OUTBR […]

BORN DUNDEE, SCOTLAND 1856. HE JOINED THE MERCHANT NAVY, ON 27/08/1875 AS AN APPRENTICE. RECEIVED HIS MASTER'S CERTIFICATE, ON 17/11/1888. WAS CAPTAIN OF THE CARGO SHIP "NIMROD". DIED OF SICKNESS, ON 18/12/1917, AGED 62. BURIED AT LES BARAQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, SANGATTE, FRANCE. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON HULL'S TRINITY HOUSE MEMORIAL. HE M […]

BORN GOXHILL, LINCS, 1890. MARRIED 28/2/1911. SON OF THOMAS WEST. HUSBAND OF ANNIE GETRUDE WEST, LIVING AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE IS BURIED AT BARTON-UPON-HUMBER NEW CEMETERY, LINCOLNSHIRE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "HE ANSWERED HIS COUNTRY'S CALL".

BORN HULL 29/12/1901. SISTER MRS EMMA MARTIN LIVED ABOVE. GRAVE/PLOT 179/42. BROTHER ARTHUR WAS ALSO KILLED.

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF JOHN ROBERT WEST (1863-1910) & SARAH ELIZABETH WEST (1862-1909), OF 20 YORK STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. HIS SISTER, MRS EMMA MARTIN, LIVED AT NOS 3 & 15 BRIGHTON TERRACE, CUMBERLAND STREET, HULL. HE WORKED AS AN OIL MILL LABOURER. DECRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5 INCHES TALL, 12 […]

BORN READING, 1887. SON OF DAVID WEST (1853-1891) & EMILY BUNCE (183-1927), OF 26 CONNAUGHT ROAD, READING. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER.  A PRINTER MACHINE MINDER IN READING (1911 CENSUS). SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS STATE THAT HE RESIDED IN HULL. HE ENLISTED IN READING. SERVED WITH THE 2ND ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT (1911 CENSUS).  P […]

BORN HULL 1894.  SON OF HENRY WEST (1844-1911) & SARAH DOUGLAS (1855-1930), OF 6, KING'S CROSS TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL. SON OF A NER RAILWAY LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. WORKED AS A BRICKLAYERS LABOURER (1911 CENSUS). EMPLOYED AT SANDERSON'S PAINT WORKS, ENGLISH STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. DIED […]

Born Hull 1882.  Third son of George Walton West (1853-1928) and Alice Ann Kennington (1855-1936), of 73 Brunswick Avenue. Hull. His father was a sewer foreman, for the Council's Works Department. He had four brothers and two sisters.  A City Engineer's Bricklayer, working in West Hull. He enlisted in Hull. Served as a Sergeant, with the […]

Born Etton, East Yorkshire, 1878. Second son of Charles and Elizabeth West, of Etton, Beverley, Yorkshire. Second of seven children. Employed as a Farm labourer, at Hay Wold, North Dalton (1911 Census) Enlisted Driffield. Served with the 4th Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princes of Wales' Own). Died of wounds, as a Prisoner of war, on […]

BORN HULL 11/09/1898. SON OF CHARLES HENRY WEST (1861-1909) AND MRS DRUSILLA ANNE O'DELL (1861-1941), OF 8 HAROLDS TERRACE, SCARBOROUGH STREET, HULL (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). A TRIMMER, ON THE TRAWLER "CHRYSOLITE". DIED OF LOBAR PNEUMONIA, AT HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY, ON 29/12/1916, AGED 19. HE LEFT TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HIS NAME […]

BORN HULL 1885. A HULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER. SON OF GEORGE THOMAS WEST (1844-1931) & ANN ELIZABETH GIBSON (1852-1929), OF 19 MIDDLETON STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS AN INSURANCE AGENT AND COLLECTOR. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HIS BROTHER, CLEMENT WAS A CLEGYMAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS RIFLEMAN, 12935, KING'S […]

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF THOMAS WEST (1865-1920) & CHARLOTTE EMILY TINDLE (1864-1937), OF 1, CUTHBERT STREET, GREAT UNION STREET, HULL. (1901 CENSUS) AND 18, SEWARD STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ONE OF THREE BROTHERS LOST IN THE WAR. LIKE HIS FATHER GEORGE WAS A BRICKLAYER BY TRADE. HE LIVED WITH HIS WIFE, MATILDA BARWICK (1888-1962) AN […]

BORN MARKET WEIGHTON, 1893. SON OF JOHN WEST (1865-1918) & LOUISA JACKETTS (1868-1966), OF 62 BALFOUR STREET, HULL AND 11, SOUTHCOATES LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, JOHN PENROSE WEST (1890-1915) WHO DIED IN HULL, ON 27/10/1915, AGED 25 AND THREE SISTERS, LOUISA, AMELIA AND EDITH, LIVING AT GRANVILLE HOUSE […]

BORN NEW ZEALAND 31/12/1891. WIFE OF MRS ANNIE WEST AT 73, EDGAR STREET (CWGC ADDRESS). THIS WAS HIS ADDRESS FROM THE HULL DAILY MAIL, NAVAL RECORDS & 1918 VOTERS. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, DIED OF INFLUENZA, ON 12/11/1918, AGED 27. BURIED HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY, AGED 27. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE WALKER STREET MEMORIAL […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF FREDERICK & MARY A WEST, OF 25, STANLEY STREET, HULL AND 71 NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR HIS FATHER'S UNDERTAKER BUSINESS. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, IN THE 10TH EYR, ON 02/09/1914, AGED 26. HE JOINED THE HULL COMMERCIALS AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND SERVED WITH THE 10TH […]