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BORN WEST HARTLEPOOL 1897. SON OF THE MARY E & LATE WILLIAM J WRIGHT. BROTHERS CLAUDE AND ALBERT E & SISTER MAUD WRIGHT. HE WAS A BUTCHER, LIVING AT 3 CRYSTAL VILLAS, VICTOR STREET. EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, JOHN ENGLISH & CO., HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 12/12/1915. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. […]

BORN HULL 1892. THIRD SON OF JAMES STATHER WRIGHT (1849-1905( AND EMMA WOODS (1856-1918), OF  52 BRIDLINGTON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 62 , ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. THIRD OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A BARBERS ASSISTANT. LIVING AT 62 ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 27153,  EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE […]

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 HULL 1893. WIFE EMILY WRIGHT. SON OF ROBERT & SARAH WRIGHT. SERVED AT SEA. DROWNED AGED 24. S/S 'DURBAN', A steam trawler, built for the Humber Steam Fishing & Ice Co., Hull (H378). In December 1914 vessel Rqd by the Royal Navy as an auxiliary vessel No FY 1209. In October 1915 returned to owners. In 1917 vessel Rqd by Roy […]

BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST SON OF ALBERT ARTHUR WRIGHT. (1876-1961) & ELIZA SUCH (1879-1944), OF 7 QUAKER'S COURT, WINCOLMLEE, HULL (1901), AND 4 WELTON TERRACE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. A LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 135 LBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST, BROWN EYES, BROWN HAI […]

BORN HULL 1884. HUSBAND OF MINNIE WRIGHT, WHO LIVED AT 45 , CLUMBER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONLY SON OF JAMES AND KAZIA ANN WRIGHT, OF 22 PEEL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 23 HAMLYN AVENUE, HULL. HE HAD ONE SISTER, ETHEL PORTER. WORKED AS A JOINER BY TRADE. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 150 LBS WEIGHT, 35-37 INCH CHES […]

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 COTTINGHAM 1887. SON OF WILLIAM WRIGHT, OF 66 PULMAN STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) HE ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION 26/10/1917, AGED 30. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE SHARED EVENLY BETWEEN WILLIAM DALBY, MARY E DALBY AND EVERLYN DALBY. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL TO THE MIS […]

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 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 […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ARTHUR HAYWARD WRIGHT 10/856. Born in Hull in 1895, the eldest of four children to John and Ada Wright of 96 Legsby Avenue, Grimsby. One of the original Pals, Arthur was a Clerk before the war but queued to enlist in the long lines outside Hull City Hall in the heady days of September 1914. He was with th […]

Born Hull 1898. Son of Frederick George and Sarah Wright, of Albert Dock, Hull (CWGC Address). Living at 16 Londesborough Street, Hull (1911 census). His father was from Norfolk and worked as a bridge foreman. AS PER SOLDIER'S DIED IN THE GREAT WAR RECORDS - HE WAS BORN IN HULL. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REG […]

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 1894. 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 AN ENGINEERING CLERK, AT ROSEDOWN AND THO […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF HENRY & RUTH WRIGHT, OF HULL. HARRY HUMBERSTONE WRIGHT WAS A MARRIED MAN. HIS WIFE HARRIET WRIGHT LIVED AT 62 LEIGHTON STREET, WESTOE, SOUTH SHIELDS. HE ENLISTED IN SOUTH SHIELDS. SERVED WITH THE 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED ON 18/06/1918, AGED 31. BURIED AT PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE, PAS DE CA […]

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 1893. SECOND SON OF MARIA HITCHIN (1865-) & HENRY FISHER WRIGHT (1865-1954), OF 43 LINNAEUS STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) & 16 MARLBOROUGH AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, EDNA. STANLEY WAS EMPLOYED AS A FITTER'S APPRENTICE (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. […]

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 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 […]