NEWTEST

BORN HULL 1883. PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, SON OF AMELIA & THE LATE WILLIAM ALEXANDER WEST. LIVED WOOLWICH, LONDON IN 1901 CENSUS.

BORN HULL 1894.  SON OF HENRY WEST (1844-1911) & SARAH DOUGLAS (1855-1930), OF 6, KING'S CROSS TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL. SON OF A NER RAILWAY LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. WORKED AS A BRICKLAYERS LABOURER (1911 CENSUS). EMPLOYED AT SANDERSON'S PAINT WORKS, ENGLISH STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. DIED […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY WEST, FROM HULL & LIVING IN MOSS SIDE, MANCHESTER. HE HAD SERVED FOR 3 YEARS IN THE LANCASHIRE TERRITORIAL REGIMENT. HE EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA. WORKED AS A TRAMWAY EMPLOYEE. HE MARRIED, MISS IRENE PEARL INGHAM, ON10/10/1915, AT ST LEONARD'S, NEW SOUTH WALES. LIVED AT 80 CHANDOS STREET, SYDNEY. HE ENL […]

BORN HULL 26/12/1890. SON OF THOMAS WEST (1865-1920) & CHARLOTTE EMILY TINDLE (1864-1937), OF 1 CUTHBERT STREET, GREAT UNION STREET, HULL. (1901 CENSUS) AND 18 SEWARD STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS).  ONE OF  9 CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. HE MARRIED, LILY DEVANEY (1891-1978), AT HULL, ON 26/12/1913. THEY LIVED AT 7, CLAREMOUN […]

BORN HULL 11/09/1898. SON OF CHARLES HENRY WEST (1861-1909) AND MRS DRUSILLA ANNE O'DELL (1861-1941), OF 8 HAROLDS TERRACE, SCARBOROUGH STREET, HULL (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). A TRIMMER, ON THE TRAWLER "CHRYSOLITE". DIED OF LOBAR PNEUMONIA, AT HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY, ON 29/12/1916, AGED 19. HE LEFT TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HIS NAME […]

BORN SKIRLAUGH 1894. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF MRS MARTHA ANN WEST. A FARM LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE HULL PALS. DIED ON THE SOMME, ON 14/07/1916. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, TO THE MISSING. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS MOTHER, MARTHA ANN BOWMAN. Somme - The 8th East Yorkshires spent the following weeks al […]

BORN HULL 1885. A HULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER. SON OF GEORGE THOMAS WEST (1844-1931) & ANN ELIZABETH GIBSON (1852-1929), OF 19 MIDDLETON STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS AN INSURANCE AGENT AND COLLECTOR. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HIS BROTHER, CLEMENT WAS A CLEGYMAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS RIFLEMAN, 12935, KING'S […]

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF THOMAS WEST (1865-1920) & CHARLOTTE EMILY TINDLE (1864-1937), OF 1, CUTHBERT STREET, GREAT UNION STREET, HULL. (1901 CENSUS) AND 18, SEWARD STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ONE OF THREE BROTHERS LOST IN THE WAR. LIKE HIS FATHER GEORGE WAS A BRICKLAYER BY TRADE. HE LIVED WITH HIS WIFE, MATILDA BARWICK (1888-1962) AN […]

BORN MARKET WEIGHTON, 1893. SON OF JOHN WEST (1865-1918) & LOUISA JACKETTS (1868-1966), OF 62 BALFOUR STREET, HULL AND 11, SOUTHCOATES LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, JOHN PENROSE WEST (1890-1915) WHO DIED IN HULL, ON 27/10/1915, AGED 25 AND THREE SISTERS, LOUISA, AMELIA AND EDITH, LIVING AT GRANVILLE HOUSE […]

BORN NEW ZEALAND 31/12/1891. WIFE OF MRS ANNIE WEST AT 73, EDGAR STREET (CWGC ADDRESS). THIS WAS HIS ADDRESS FROM THE HULL DAILY MAIL, NAVAL RECORDS & 1918 VOTERS. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, DIED OF INFLUENZA, ON 12/11/1918, AGED 27. BURIED HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY, AGED 27. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE WALKER STREET MEMORIAL […]

Born Hull 1882.  Third son of George Walton West (1853-1928) and Alice Ann Kennington (1855-1936), of 73 Brunswick Avenue. Hull. His father was a sewer foreman, for the Council's Works Department. He had four brothers and two sisters.  A City Engineer's Bricklayer, working in West Hull. He enlisted in Hull. Served as a Sergeant, with the […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF FREDERICK & MARY A WEST, OF 25, STANLEY STREET, HULL AND 71 NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR HIS FATHER'S UNDERTAKER BUSINESS. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, IN THE 10TH EYR, ON 02/09/1914, AGED 26. HE JOINED THE HULL COMMERCIALS AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND SERVED WITH THE 10TH […]

BORN HULL 1886. ELDEST SON OF HENRY WEST (1844-1911) & SARAH DOUGLAS (1855-1930), OF 6, KING'S CROSS TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL. SON OF A (NER) RAILWAY LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. HE JOINED THE ARTILLERY 14 YEARS AGO AND HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR OVER TWO YEARS. AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF WAR, HE WAS TRAINING RECRUITS […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF HARRY WEST (1856-1920) & PHOEBE SARAH LEONARD (1862-1943), OF 1 CUTHBERT AVENUE, AIRLIE STREET, HULL. LIVED OSGODBY, LINCS. MARRIED MILDRED CLARK (1896-1989), LINCOLN REGISTRY OFFICE, ON 1ST JANUARY, 1913. HE ENLISTED AT GRIMSBY. SERVED WITH THE 10TH LINCOLNSHIRE BATTALION. KILLED ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE […]

Name: Henry West Rank: Coy Sergeant Major Regiment Yorkshire Regiment Birth Date: 19 Sep 1878 Birth Place: Thornton, near Lincoln Educated Skirlaugh school Marriage Date: 1 Dec 1908 Marriage Place: Skirlaugh Enlistment Date: 28 Sep 1914 Served for 7.5 years and in the Boer War Death Date: 8 May 1918 Death Place: Ridgewood, Ypres Fathe […]

BORN HULL 1880. LIVED 32 TEMPLETON ROAD, TOTTENHAM. EX 21924 MIDDLESEX REGIMENT. EX COACHMAN. DIED EGYPT. ARMY EFFECTS SENT TO LILY NEVILL.

BORN HUNSLET 1873. SON OF THOMAS & SARAH ANN WEST, HUNSLET, LEEDS, YORKSHIRE. NARRIED, HULL 1910. A FISHERMAN. DROWNED AGED 46. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE LOST TRAWLERMEN OF HULL RECORDS. 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 au […]

BORN HULL 1895. SCULCOATES. STEPSON OF GEORGE & ELLEN TAYLOR, OF 6, QUEENS TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS), 43, WEST DOCK AVENBUE, HULL AND 5 SUBWAY STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESSES). PRIOR TO THE WAR HE WORKED AS A BOILER CLEANER. HE ENLISTED IN THE 9TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WITH HIS FRIEND, CHARLES GO […]

BORN HULL 29/12/1901. SISTER MRS EMMA MARTIN LIVED ABOVE. GRAVE/PLOT 179/42. BROTHER ARTHUR WAS ALSO KILLED.

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN WEST (1863-1910) & SARAH ELIZABETH NOZEDAR (1862–1909), OF 16 YORK STREET, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. HE IN LIVED HULL. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER WHEN WAR BEGAN, SERVED AS RIFLEMAN, 2ND KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS. POSTED TO FRANCE WITH THE BRITIS […]