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BORN HULL 25/10/1883. SON OF ALFRED WM & SARAH ANN E. WIFE JANE HARRIET (DALBY) ABOVE NB: WHINCUP'S ALL SERVED AT SEA - 33 CLIFTON TERRACE, JANE STREET, HULL. HMT Sapper sank with all hands on a mine laid on December 24, 1917 by the German minelaying submarine UC-71. Per Admiralty records, the explosion was witnessed by both the Ow […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF ROBERT HENRY WHINHAM (1862-1935) & MARIA OBRIDGE (1867-1899), OF 43, CANNING STREET, HULL & 43, NORFOLK STREET, HULL. A CAREER SOLDIER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 23/03/1910. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 16/08/1914. SERVED AS DRIVER, 60996, 50TH ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.  DISCHARGED ON 13/10/1916. AWARDED SILVER WAR BAD […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF WILLIAM ROBERT & ELLEN WHINHAM - TRAVELLERS. LIVED IN CARAVAN SCARBOROUGH ST. WIFE ETHEL WHINHAM AT 6 LITTLE TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL (CWGC AND  1918 VOTERS ADDRESS) HE IS BURIED AT FAENZA COMMUNAL CEMETERY, ITALY

BORN HULL 1901. SON OF ALICE (1866-1935) & JOHN WILLIAM WHIPHAM (1837-1915), OF 37 SOMMERSCALES STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND  9 , FINSBURY GROVE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FORUR BROTHERS. GEORGE & WILLIAM WHIPHAM SERVED AT SAME ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 53RD DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, A […]

Born Hornsea, 1896. Son of Albert Edward Whipp and Emily Marion Dyson. he father was Managing Director a steam shipping company. He had elder siblings, Kathleen, a nurse and William, a Shipping Clerk. The family lived in Croydon, Surrey, Brentwood, Essex and Shoreham, Sussex, where Philip went to the local Grammar School. Philip worked […]

Born Hull 1893. Son of John William Whisker (1851-1925) and Ann Hare Shann (1861-1928), of 21 Prospect Place, Church Street, Hull. He had three brothers and five sisters. A Saw Mill Labourer. Described as 5 foot, 11 inches tall, 147 lbs weight, 35-37 inch chest.  Enlisted Hull, ON 28/09/1914, aged 21. Trained at Dalton, Ripon and Salis […]

Private 241934, 1st/5th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Born 1897. Died 3 June 1917. Buried in FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND, Somme, France. Plot IV. Row K. Grave 2. Son of William and Annie Whisker of Gravel Hill Farm, Swine. This is an extract of the diary written by Herbert.- Left England 3 March 1916 and landed a […]

BORN HULL 1881. BAPTISED 07/07/1881. EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, SELLARS, PAINTER & DECORATORS, WEST PARADE, HULL WHERE HE SERVED HIS APPRENTERSHIP. ENLISTED HULL CITY HALL ON 11/12/15 AGED 34. JOINED THE 15TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY ON 10/06/1916 (21 ST DIVISION, 64TH BRIGADE). POSTED TO FRANCE 18/11/16. DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO CHEST. MA […]

BORN HULL 1893. ENLISTED 28/9/14. SON OF JOHN & ANN WHISKER ABOVE. ONE OF 5 CHILDREN (3 SONS). HE WON THE MILITARY MEDAL KEEPING HIS GUN IN ACTION, UNDER HEAVY FIRE. HIS PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 22ND MARCH 1918. HE WAS ENGAGED. Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL HARRY WHISKER MM 12/698. Born in 1893, Harry was the y […]

BORN MARYLEBONE, LONDON 1877. SON OF JOSEPH EDWARD & CONSTANCE ZULEIKA ELIZABETH FISH (1858-1929), of 42 WESTBOURNE AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). RESIDED PAIGNTON, DEVON. WORKED FOR THE HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY COMPANY, CHARLOTTE STREET, HULL. ENLISTED IN SOUTHAMPTON. SERVED AS A CYCLIST IN THE 1/9TH HAMPSHIRE TERRITORIAL FORCE. D […]

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF CLARA PLEDGE & THE LATE GEORGE WHITTAKER. A HULL POSTMAN, WHO RESIDED WITH HIS MOTHER AT 32 GOULTON STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN OCTOBER 1915. SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/07/1917, AGED 36. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 24/08/1917. *

BORN HULL 20/02/1895. THE ONLY SON OF LEONARD WHITAKER (1866-1942) & LOUISA BROOKS (1865-1931), OF 76 PEEL STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO OLDER SISTERS, DAISY AND ELSIE. A FORMER HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY CLERK, LIVING AT 70 BLAKE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD PERSONA REFERENCES FROMREVEREND, WH HEAP, QUEENS HALL, HULL & R PAW […]

Born Barton 1888. Son of Alfred Edward Whitaker (b. 1861) and Elizabeth Higham (1860-1935), of 26 Margaret Street, Hull (Pension records address). He had two brothers and a sister. A former Rullyman for the Hull and Barnsley Railway. He married at Sculcoates, Hull, 1910. His wife Gertrude Desforges (1892-1972), lived at 24 Seaton Stre […]

BORN HULL 04/01/1889. SON OF STAFFORD BEESTON WHITBY (MBE) & HETTIE WHITBY, OF NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, OTTAWA, CANADA, AND 8 VICTORIA AVENUE, HULL. HARRY ALDEN WHITBY WAS EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HE HAD A BRILLIANT SCHOLASTIC CAREER. HE ATTENDED PARIS UNIVERSITY, AND SPENT TWO AND HALF YEARS STUDYING IN GERMANY. HE WAS […]

Born Thurgoland, West Yorkshire, 1873. Worked as a Miner near Sheffield. Husband of Amy Wilcock, at 9. Commercial Buildings, Waverley Street, Hull (War Pension address). They had four children, May, Albert, Fred and Stanley. Served as Acting Sergeant in the Labour Corps. Discharged on 11 April 1919. Died of Nervous Debility, on 26 Oct 1 […]

BORN HULL 13/05/1895. HUSBAND TO MABEL AT 19 WAVERLEY TERRACE, VILLA PLACE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS), OFF HESSLE ROAD. THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, MABEL, BORN ON 13/3/1917. SON OF WALTER WHITE (1873-1953) & CHARLOTTE WHITE (1874-1945), AT 10 RUTH TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL. A FORMER ERRAND BOY. HE SERVED WITH THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE, AS A […]

Born April 1, 1890, Hull, England. Spouse of Lizzie White, of Galt, Waterloo County, Ontario. He had two children. Enlisted January 18, 1916, Galt, Ontario, Served in the 111th Royal Canadian Regiment. Killed in action at Vimy Ridge on 09/04/1917, aged 27. Buried at LA CHAUDIERE MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.

Born 1896. Resided at 3, Todd Street, Wingate, Durham. Enlisted on 9/8/1915. Served with the 3rd & 7th East Yorkshire Regiment. Discharged on 16 May 1918, with gunshot wounds to the left knee. Awarded the Silver War Badge (No: 417215). Died a year later, on 16/05/1919, aged 23. His war pension went to Miss, Mary White, Paragon Hot […]

BORN WARREN POINT, COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND 1880. SON OF JOHN WHITE & SARAH BROWN. WIFE ELLEN BRENNEN, AT 291 BURLINGTON STREET, SCOTLAND ROAD, LIVERPOOL. SUNK OFF SCOTLAND. LISTED ON HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liverpool. She was on Admiralty charter for carrying meat and […]

BORN BARNARD CASTLE, STAINTON, DURHAM 1872. AN ORPHAN. HE HAD NO KNOWN PARENTS OR SIBLINGS. SERVED FOR THE EAST KENT YEOMANRY AND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY FOR 12 YEARS . IN CIVILIAN LIVE HE WORKED AS A FISH SALESMAN AND STEWARD. MARRIED ELIZABETH ANN WILBERN, ON 29/12/1900, AT HEBBARN-ON-TYNE. THEY LIVED AT 78 LONDESBOROUGH STREET, HULL (19 […]