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Jack Watson was a well known Hull Fisherman. He worked for 15 years with the St Andrew's Fishing Company. He was washed away, on the Steam Trawler "Electric", and drowned with Joseph William Pettman, on 18/09/1916. Jack Watson left a widow and five children (three under 14), living at 13 Crown terrace, Walcott Street. His death was repor […]

BORN HUNMANBY, YORKSHIRE, 1886. SON OF THOMAS AND MARY ELIZA WATSON, OF HUNMANBY AND BRIDLINGTON. SON OF A GAS WORKS LABOURER. SECOND OF FOUR SONS. HE BOARDED AT 58 RUGBY STREET, HULL. WORKED AS A RAILWAY PORTER. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/04/1917, AGED 31. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WER […]

Born 1891. Joseph Watson was lost at sea, aged 25 On 19/04/1916 the Hull steam trawler HAWK (H389) sank following a collision with the Brazilian s.s. CORCOVADO (3046 gt/ b 1890) in the North Sea, 5 miles north-east of Spurn Light-vessel, whilst outward bound from Hull towards Iceland. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wre […]

BORN LEVEN, HULL, 1891. SON OF GEORGE POSKITT WATSON, OF 49 , WINCOLMLEE, HULL. A FORMER FARMER. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBED HIM AS 5 FOOT 5 INCHES TALL. 37 INCH CHEST, 144 LBS & CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY, ON 01/05/1916. FORMERLY, OF THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, BASED IN PRESTON. HE WAS POSTED TO FRANCE 07/10/1916. TRAN […]

BORN SCARBOROUGH, 1881. SON OF WILLIAM WATSON & EMILY BRAITHWAITE, 2 HERBERT'S TERRACE, WASSAND STREET AND 14 THORNE TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL (1918 ABSENT VOTERS AND CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. WORKED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE R […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1887. SON OF EMMA BROOKS (1846-1922) & FREDERICK WATSON (1843-1904), AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS.  HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. LIVED IN BEVERLEY. WORKED AS A CLERK FOR A COAL MERCHANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE SERGEANT, IN THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 21/09/1916, AGED 30. BURIED AT CORBIE, ON […]

BORN HULL 1891. LIVED GLASGOW. ENLISTED AYR. SON OF HENRY WILSON WATSON (1855-1929) & MARGARET RAMSEY GLEN, OF 3 FREDERICK TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS). BOTH PARENTS CAME FROM SCOTLAND. HIS FATHER WAS A HAIRDRESSER IN HULL. THE FAMILY LATER LIVED AT AT ASHTON UNDER LYME AND BLYTHSWOOD,  GLASGOW. HE ENLISTED IN AYR. […]

BORN HULL 1877. SON OF ROBERT LAWSON WATSON (1853-1923) & ELIZABETH WATSON - 14 BANK STREET, HULL (1881 CENSUS). HUSBAND OF J S WATSON, OF 204 HOWARD AVENUE, BENONI, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA. SERVED IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA IN 1916 , WITH THE 7TH SOUTH AFRICAN INFANTRY. HE DIED ON 28/06/1917, AGED 40, WHILE UNDER OPERATION ON HIS KNEE. H […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF DR. GEORGE HENRY & KATE WATSON, OF 192, HALLGATE, COTTINGHAM, HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. PRIOR TO THE WAR HE WAS PRACTICING MEDICINE. HE SERVED AS A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. HE HAD BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR NINETEEN MONTHS. WOUNDED ON HE SOMME ON 16/09/1916 AND DIED OF WOUNDS TWO DAY […]

BORN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. ENLISTED ENDINBURGH. WIFE MARY. LIVED AT 29 WEST PARADE, SPRING BANK, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS)ACCORDING TO SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS. SERVED AS A LANCE CORPORAL IN THE 9TH ROYAL SCOTS. DIED OF WOUNDS AT NO:41 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, ON 31/03/1918. HIS AMRY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARY. BURIED AT NAM […]

BORN ST LUCIA, WEST INDIES 1884. SON OF MARY ELIZABETH & GEORGE AUGUSTUS WATTLEY. WIFE FLOENCE EMMA LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. The British trawler Andromache was on her way back from the fishing grounds of Iceland, when on April 14th 1917, she was stopped west of the Shetlands by the German submarine U-78 (Otto Dröscher). The master was […]

BORN 1888. SON OF FLORENCE WATTON, 11 HOWE STREET, OFF JENNINGS STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). The steam Trawler, Halcyon, was built by Cochrane & Cooper, Ltd., Beverley in 1898 and owned at the time of her loss by J. Leyman Jr. was a British trawler of 190 tons. On February 19th, 1917, Halcyon was sunk by a mine from the German submar […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF MRS SARAH ANN WATTS, OF 13, BLENHEIM TERRACE, NORFOLK STREET, HULL. A SINGLE MAN. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, GEORGE, AND THREE MARRIED SISTERS. HE WORKED FOR MR ROBSON, HAY MERCHANT, HESSLE ROAD, HULL,  AS A STRAW AND HAY TRUSSER. HE  BOARDED AT 12, ALFRED TERRACE, VAUXHALL GRIVE HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND THIS ARMY ADDRESS […]

Born Alfreton, Derbyshire, 1884. Eldest child of John James Watts and Alice Stocks Watts, of 265, Alliance Avenue, Hull (1911 Census). he had eight brothers and one sister. He was a Loc Engine Fitter and "Very Good" character. Husband of Jane (born 24/11/1884), at 3, Ash Grove, De La Pole Avenue, Hull (War Pension address). they had two […]

BORN 1892. THIRD SON OF JOHN WATTS 'DEONIA' HOUSE, OF HULL AND BRIDLINGTON. SON OF AN OIL BROKER. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HE WAS A PARTNER, IN HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS IN HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WHEN WAR BEGAN. WENT TO FRANCE IN APRIL 1916, AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT. PROMOTED TO STAFF CAPTAIN IN THE 92ND B […]

BORN HULL 20/03/1885. SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM & MARY WATTS AT THIS CWGC NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS. LOST AT SEA, ON 03/10/1914, AGED 20. On September 30th, 1914, the British steel trawler ST. LAWRENCE departed Iceland for Hull with fish and went missing with all on board. She was not heard of ever since. Believed to have struck a mine; PEO […]

BORN ALDERSHOT, 1875, INTO AN ARMY FAMILY. ONE OF FOUNTEEN CHILDREN, SEVERAL OF WHICH ALSO JOINED THE FORCES. HE MOVED FROM ALDERSHOT TO BEVERLEY VIA SHEFFIELD. HE MARRIED ROSA BUTTERS, IN BEVERLEY, IN 1903 AND HAD TWO CHILDREN, CHARLES AND WILFRED. HE HAD SERVED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT FROM 1891-1908 AND THEN WORKED IN A LOCA […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF WILLIAM ROBERT WATTS & MARGARET ISABELLA COOOPLAND (1876-1903), OF 127, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 10 HERBERTS TERRACE, SOUTH PARADE, HULL. SON OF A DOCK TUG MAN. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, LILY. HIS MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS 5 YEARS OLD. HIS FATHER RE-MARRIED AND ROBERT WAS RAISED BY HIS […]

BORN WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, 08/02/1896. ONLY SON OF ROBERT WATTS & KATE SMITH, OF NEWLAND PARK, HULL. ATTENDED SCHOOLS IN CROSBY & PARKGATE, CHESHIRE. A PROMISING SOPRANO SINGER. HE WORKED FOR A SHIP OWNER IN CARDIFF AND WAS WORKING FOR THE ADMIRALTY IN AUGUST 1914. GAZETTED AS 2ND LIEUTENANT TO THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 15 […]

BORN HULL 1884. SON OF MRS CHARLOTTE ANN (WALKER) & THE LATE ROBERT WILSON WATTS, OF 14 TADMAN STREET, HULL AND 1 CROMWELL TERRACE, WEST PARADE, SPRING BANK, HULL . ELDEST OF FOUR CHILDREN. WAS AN ENGINEER EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, MAJOR OF WILMINGTON AND AN EX HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH "D" COMP […]