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BORN HULL 01/04/1899. SON OF PTE, GEORGE WILLIAM VOKES, NFUS, & MRS ADA BROWN, OF 7, MASON TERRACE, WELLINGTON LANE, HULL. EMPLOYED AS AN APPRENTICE PRINTER TO MESSRS. HARLAND, MANOR STREET, HULL. SINGLE MAN. HE ENLISTED IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 02/04/1917. SERVED IN FRANCE, FROM 31/03/1918. CAPTURED ON 22/03/1918. DIED […]

BORN LIVERPOOL 06/11/1895. SON OF THOMAS HARRY VOLLER & EMMA VOLLER, OF 18 , ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A WARDEN AT HULL PRISON. EDUCATED IN SHEFFIELD HE WORKED AS A CLERK FOR LLOYDS BANK (SHEFFIELD BRANCH). ALSO RESIDED IN IPSWHICH, SUFFOLK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 15/12/1915. SERVED IN THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS. P […]

BORN ST HELENS, LANCASHIRE, 1875. SON OF JOHN & ELIZABETH VOSE, OF MILLBROOKE LANE, ECCLESTON, ST HELENS. HE MARRIED ELEANOR DIXON, AT NEWCASTLE, ON 31/07/1897. HIS WIFE ELEANOR VOSE LIVED AT 6 HUDSON STREET, WELLINGTON LANE, HULL. THEY HAD DAUGHTER, ELEANOR, AND TWO SONS, WILLIAM AND JOHN. HE WORKED IN CONFECTIONERY, AS A SUGAR BOI […]

PRIVATE FRANCIS KISH GUY VOWLES 12/1487. Born in December 1898, Francis was the eldest of ten children to Francis Vowles (1871-1961) and Mary Ann Guy (1873-1962), of Long House Farm, Barrow Gurney, Somerset. It appears he must have relocated to Hull sometime between the 1911 Census and his lying about his age in order to enlist in 1915. […]

BORN ANTWERP, BELGIUM, ON 18/07/1884. ARMY INTERPRETER. SON OF MRS SONLEY, OF 116, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN SEPTEMBER, 1917. HIS WIFE KATE OMBLER SONLEY, ALSO LIVED AT 116 BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. HE SERVED AS SERGEANT, WITH THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS AND ACTED AS INTERPRETER. REPORTED AS DIED OF PNEUMONIA, AT […]

BORN WINTERTON, LINCS, 21/05/1900. SON OF ARTHUR WADDINGHAM (1870-1932) & ALICE ANNIE THOMPSON (1871-1943), OF 1 GREEK STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A BRICKMAKER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE LEFT FOUR BROTHERS. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 23/09/1915. A BOY SAILOR ON THE HMS "QUEEN MARY". HE WAS LOST AT SE […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF ARTHUR & SUSANNAH (ANNIE) ELIZABETH WADDINGHAM, OF 66 BATCHELER STREET, HULL AND 15 WAKEFIELD STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A NER RAILWAY RULLYMAN. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, SERVED WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED IN BELGIUM, ON 28/10/1918, AGED 19. HE IS BURIED AT HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH C […]

BORN WELNICK, NEAR HULL, 20/04/1900. SON OF WILLIAM WADDINGHAM (1850-1924) & SELINA TENNISON (1857-1912), OF WEETON, WELWICK, PATRINGTON. HIS FATHER WAS AN AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY, ON 19/10/1918. DIED OF INFLUENZA, ON 27/10/1918, AGED 18. HE IS BURIED AT WELWICK (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD. HE […]

BORN BROOMFLEET, YORKS 13/03/1891. SON OF ARTHUR WADDINGHAM (1870-1932) & AVELINA GARDHAM (1872-1898). HIS STEPMOTHER ALICE THOMPSON (1871-1943) LIVED AT 1 , GREEK STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL. A BRICKYARD LABOURER AND FARM LABOURER. HE MARRIED FRANCES HANNAH WILLIAMSON, AT ST PHILLIPS, CHURCH, HULL, ON 15/08/1912. HIS WIFE FRANCE […]

Born Hull 1892. Son of Maude Waddington, of 9, Blythe Street, Hull. Husband of Lily Waddington, of 27, Seward Street, Hull - unofficial wife and mother of their child. She moved to 29, Lister Street, Hull (War Pension address). Enlisted on 28/08/1914. He served in the 6th East Yorkshire Regiment. Discharged on 29/04/1919, with Heart di […]

BORN HULL 03/05/1891. SON OF THOMAS GIBSON WADDINTON (1857-1937) & FANNY ELLEN MARSHALL (1864-1944), OF "FERN BANK", COTTINGHAM ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A FARMER. ONE OF FIVE SONS. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. WORKED AS A WOOL MERCHANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL COMMERCIALS, ON 02/09/1914, AGED 23 AND 5 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS […]

BORN HULL 1882. SON OF JOHN AND SARAH WADDINGTON, OF HULL. BROTHER OF MRS MARY GATES. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX PRIVATE, 1152, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT . TRANSFERRED TO THE 8TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/09/1917, AGED 35. HE IS BURIED AT TYNE COT CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "AT REST". HIS BROTHER, GEORGE WADDING […]

BORN HULL 24/01/1894. ELDEST SON OF ERNEST WASSINGTON (1870-1923) & ADA MARY COOKE, OF 29, DUESBURY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A STAIONER. BROTHERS ERNEST & ARNOLD AND OLDER SISTER BERTHA.. EDUCATED AT HYMERS COLLEGE. WORKED AS A COOK (1911 CENSUS) AND WAS EMPLOYED WITH MESSRS, HODGSON, HARRS & CO, CHARTERED ACCOUN […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF THOMAS AND EMMA WADE, OF 59 NORTHUMBRIAND AVENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 9 VANCOUVER CRESCENT, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A LIGHTERMAN. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE WORKED LIKE HIS FATHER AND BROTHERS AS A RIVER BARGE SAILOR. HE LIVED WITH HIS UNCLE, IN SELBY (1911 CENSUS).  HE E […]

BORN HEDON 1891. SON OF FRED & HELEN WADE. HE MARRIED IN JULY 1914. HIS WIFE AMY LIVED IN HORNSEA AND 19 LANDSDOWNE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). PRIOR TO WAR HE WAS A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY JOINER IN HULL. HE WAS A WELL KNOWN AMATEUR FOOTBALLER AND CRICKETER. HE HAD SERVED IN THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE CYCLISTS FOR FOUR YEARS AS A […]

Harry was born in 1887 at Holme on the Wolds; on the 1891 census he is aged 5 years and living at Holme on the Wolds with his father Titus and mother Emma Wadsworth, also at home are his brothers and sisters Jane aged 22, Fred aged 12, Charles aged 10, Annie aged 9, Robert aged 7, Henry aged 5 and Thomas aged 2 years. In 1901 Henry W […]

BORN GOOLE 1898. SECOND SON OF ALFRED WADSWORTH (1870-1958) & JOSEPHINE APPLEYARD (1870-1950), OF 13 BERESFORD AVENUE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL AND 94 CRANBROOK AVENUE, COTTINGHAM ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS A STEAM SHIP OWNER AND MANAGER. SECOND OF FOUR SONS. HE SERVED AS AN AIR MECHANIC, IN THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS, […]

BORN RIGA, LATVIA 1885. SUNK BY SUBMARINE. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH.

BORN HULL 1900. SON OF JOHAN HERMAN WAGNER & BESSIE JACKSON, OF DITTON HILL, SURREY. A BRITISH BORN GERMAN. HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN LEIPZIEG, GERMANY. BROTHER TO FRANK AND VIOLET. EX BLUNDELLS WORKER. DESCRIBED AS 6 FOOT, 2 INCHES TALL, 150LBS WEIGHT, 38 INCH CHEST SIZE, BROWN HAIR AND BLUE EYES. HE ENLISTED AT HOUNDSLOW, MIDDLESEX ON […]

Born Bonnyrigg, Midlothian 1891. Son of Charles and Janet Lauder Wagstaff; husband of Lillian Wagstaff, of 26, Regent Street., Anlaby Road, Hull (CWGC address). He is buried at BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS "WORTHY OF EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE FROM HIS LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER".