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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 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 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 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 HULL 14/01/1883.  SON OF THE LATE JOHN HENRY & ELIZABETH WATSON, OF 58, WITTY STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HIS WIFE, MARGARET ANN WATSON, LIVED AT 84, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL. THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN (WAR PENSION RECORDS). HE FORMERLY WORKED FOR THE GREAT NORTHERN STEAM FISHING COMPANY. HE WAS KILLED BY A MINE EXPLOSION, ON THE […]

BORN BELFAST 1897. SON OF ELLEN JANE WARD. HE LIVED IN WAKEFIELD AND HULL. KNOWN AS 'JERRY' WATSON. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MESSRS. BLUNDELL & SPENCE LTD, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER, WHO PLAYED FOR THE WORKS TEAM, WITH 'WILF' COLLEY. JERRY WATSON WAS DESCRIBED AS "A 'CENTER THREE QUARTER' OF GR […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF THOMAS WATSON & JEMIMA TOMLINSON, OF 7 ARTHUR TERRACE, ST PAULS STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE MARRIED IN 1913, AGED 16. WIFE ELSIE REBECCA (SENIOR). A FORMER BLUNDELL'S PAINT WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 03/05/1915, AGED 18. COMMEMORAT […]

Born Cottingham, 1890. James was the youngest of four children to Arthur (1859-1894) and Edith Watson (1858-1903), of Wood House, Cottingham. The 1911 Census finds him living with his siblings at 38 Victoria Avenue, Hull and working as a Bank Clerk. War changed all that forever. James queued in the long uneven lines of 1st September 1914 […]

Born 1891. Son of Stephen Watson (1858-1931) and Margaret Ann Ellis (1862-1935), of "The Haven," Patrington, Hull (CWGC Address). Son of a farmer. He worked as a horseman. He had one brother and two sisters. Served in Coldstream Guards, No. 4 Coy. 1st Bn. He died of wounds, on 22/07/1917, aged 26, at No:4 Casualty Clearing Stataion. Bur […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF HARRY WATSON (1853-1912) & RACHEL PORTZ (1856-1915), OF 50 RUSSELL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN FRANKFURT, GERMANY. HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN HULL AND WORKED AS A PAINT FACORY LABOURER. ARTHUR WORKED AS A PAINT MIXER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED […]

William Jordan Rice Watson is commemorated on the St John The Baptist Church Memorial, Newington, Hull. Records suggest that he served during the 1914-18 War, but he not die until 1951? Born Hull 30 June 1873. Son of Jordan Rice Watson (1849-1873) and Emily Watson 91851-1883). Baptised at St James Church, Hull, 13 Jul 1873. Raised by st […]

BORN BURY, LANCASHIRE 1887. ONLY SON OF JAMES WATSON & SARAH FIRTH (1863-1918), OF, 18, AYLESFORD STREET, BOULEVARD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF AN ENGINE FITTER. HE HAD TWO SISTERS, MARY ANN AND SARAH. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN BUSINESS CIRCLES AS AN ACCOUNTANT'S CLERK, BEING IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF WILKINSON ACCOUNTANTS, SCALE LANE, HUL […]

BORN HULL 1888.  SON OF EMILY WATSON (1852-1916) AND THOMAS JAMES WATSON (1845-1912), OF 5, SELBEy STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS). SON OF A CARPENTER. HE HAD FOUR ELDER BROTHERS, CHARLES, HERBERT, GEORGE AND ALBERT, A YOUNGER BROTHER, WALTER AND SISTER, ISABELL PORTER. HE LIVED WITH HIS BROTHER HERBERT AND WIDOWED MOTHER, AT 191, SOMERSET S […]

BORN HULL 12/8/1857. SON OF JOHN HENRY WATSON AND MARY ANN WATSON. MARRIED IN HULL, 07/08/1878. HUSBAND OF MARY ELIIZABETH LILL, AT 38 WITTY STREET, HULL. A MARINE ENGINEER. LOST AT SEA, ON 21/03/1917, AGED 57. Expedient, built by Mackie & Thomson, Govan in 1893 and owned at the time of her loss by Great Northern Steamship Fishing C […]

Born Etton, Yorkshire, 1895. Only son of William and Ann Elizabeth Watson, of Etton, Beverley, Yorkshire. He had three sisters, Gertrude, Gladys and Maretta. He worked as Plough Boy On Farm, in Etton (1911 Census). He enlisted at Beverley. Served as Gunner, 141168, D Battery, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action on 24 […]

BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM HARD & ETHEL MARY WATSON, OF 214 ANLABY ROAD AND 1 COLLEGE STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. EDUCATED AT HYMER'S COLLEGE, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR, HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE YORKSHIRE PENNY BANK. HE WAS A GIFTED SINGER, DANCER AND PIANIST AND PLAYED FOR EIGHT YEARS AT MADAME SHARRAH'S SCHOLL OF MUSIC, HUL […]

BORN HULL 1878. SON OF JAMES & LAVINIA WATSON, OF 16 SOVEREIGN PLACE, WILLIAM STREET, HULL . MARRIED TO ANNIE WITH FOUR CHILDREN. EX RECKITTS WORKER AT THE MORLEY STREET PLANT. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 34-36 INCH CHEST SIZE, GOOD VISION, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 22/05/1915. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAS […]