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BORN HULL 1895. SON OF WILLIAM WRIGHT, OF 4 ASH GROVE, BEECH STREET, HULL. WIFE ALICE MAY JENSEN & DAUGHTER MARJORIE ALICE WRIGHT (BORN 31/05/1916) LIVED AT 22 GROSVENOR TERRACE, GROSVENOR STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS ON 18/11/1914.WENT TO FRANCE 17/07/1916. KILLED IN ACTION ON 13/11/16, AGED 21. BY COINCIDENCE PTE, 48 […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF JAMES WRIGHT (1847-1905)AND EMMA WRIGHT (1857-1918), OF 97 NEWLAND AVENUE AND 62, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. PRIOR TO ENLISTING, HE WAS A BARMAN FOR TEN YEARS AT THE CRITERION PUB, HESSLE ROAD, HULL AND ALSO WORKED AS A MOTOR DRIVER. UNMARRIED. LIVED AT 62 P […]

BORN HULL 1879.  SON OF JOHN WRIGHT. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1912. HUSBAND  OF FLORENCE BASSETT (1886-1950). FATHER OF FLORENCE AND EDITH. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 138 CUMBERLAND STREET, HULL. A LOCAL OIL PRESSMAN. HE ENLISTED WORCESTER. SERVED WITH THE 3RD WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/03/1915, AGED 36. COMMEMORATED ON THE […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF SARAH ANN WRIGHT, OF 7 HESSLE AVENUE, GILLETT STREET, HULL. HIS BROTHERS, SISTERS AND WIDER FAMILY ALL LIVED IN THE HESSLE ROAD AREA. HE WAS A JOINER'S LABOURER BY TRADE. HE HAD MARRIED ON 22/03/1914. HIS WIFE, ADELINE ROBERTS, AND DAUGHTER FLORENCE LILLIAN WRIGHT, LIVED AT 8 CLAIRMONT AVENUE, SCARBOROUGH STREET. […]

BORN HULL, 1896. HE MARRIED GRACE VARLEY, AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN 1915. HUSBAND OF MRS GRACE MARSHALL WHO LIVED AT 9 BATES TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE SON, JOHN THOMAS WRIGHT, WHO DIED ON 18/04/1917. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 10/07/1916. BURIED HULL WESTERN CE […]

Born Hull 1889. Son of Mr. John Wright, of 94, New Bridge Road., Hull; husband of Jane Ethel Marr (formerly Wright), of 1, Ashdene Villas, Brecon St., Holderness Rd., Hull. His name is recorded on the Nornabell Street, Roll of Honour. His death was reported in the Hull Daily Mail, on 16/01/1919. * Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN ED […]

BORN HULL 1892. THIRD SON OF JAMES STATHER WRIGHT (1849-1905( AND EMMA WOODS (1856-1918), OF  52 BRIDLINGTON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 62 , ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. THIRD OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A BARBERS ASSISTANT. LIVING AT 62 ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 27153,  EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE […]

BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST SON OF ALBERT ARTHUR WRIGHT. (1876-1961) & ELIZA SUCH (1879-1944), OF 7, QUAKER'S COURT, WINCOLMLEE, HULL (1901), AND 4, WELTON TERRACE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & ARMY ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. A LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 135 LBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST, B […]

BORN HULL 1874. BEFORE THE WAR JOHN HAD SERVED 34 MONTHS IN THE BOER WAR WHERE HE RECEIVED TWO CAMPAIGN MEDALS. HE THEN WORKED AT EARLES SHIP BUILDING YARD. HE MARRIED ON 09/04/1898. LEFT WIDOW, ELIZABETH WRIGHT AND SIX CHILDREN AT 18 SALISBURY TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND WAS KIL […]

BORN HESSLE 1874. MARRIED AT ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, BOULEVARD, ON 20/04/1897. HIS WIFE ELIZA PADDISON (1875-1960) LIVED AT 8 SUBWAY STREET, HULL. SON OF GEORGE SELLERS (1842-1903) & ELIZABETH WRIGHT. A MARINE ENGINEER. LOST AT SEA, ON 09/05/1917, AGED 43. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. The fishing vessel, W […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF GEORGE HENRY & MARY WRIGHT, OF 175 CLEVELAND STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). WIFE HANNAH BRADY WRIGHT, LIVED AT 12 SEATON STREET, HULL AND IN LEEDS. EMPLOYED AS A TIMBER MERCHANT'S CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. KILLED ON 20/01/1918, AGED 26. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF EDWARD WRIGHT AND ADA MARY CREAM, OF 6, RODNEY STREET, HULL. ELDEST OF EIGHT CHILDREN. SERVED AS A ROYAL ENGINEER BUGLER FOR TWO YEARS IN 1908. MARRIED IN HULL, ON 02/04/1914. HIS WIFE FLORENCE MAUD MARLING (1894-1917), LIVED AT 79, CHILTERN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A FRUIT MERCHANT CLERK. D […]

BORN HULL 1878.  SON OF MARY ELLEN MOODY & THOMAS WRIGHT, OF 27 DALTRY STREET, HULL.(1911 CENSUS). HUSBAND OF SUSANNA DAWSON (1863-1950), AT 9 LILLY GROVE, REGENT STREET, HULL. A FORMER NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY COAL TEAMER FOR TEN YEARS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 23/04/19 […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF HENRY GRASBY WRIGHT (1854-1904) & KATE BRADBURY WRIGHT (1859-1926), OF 66 BRIDLINGTON STREET, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. WAS ONE OF THREE SONS LOST IN THE WAR. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 5 WATERHOUSE LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS), WHERE THEY RAN A TOBACCONIST BUSINESS. HE WOR […]

BORN SUTTON 14/07/1895. STEP SON OF ELIZABETH SIMPSON (1876-1963) AND SAMUEL STEPHENSON (1873-1949). HE HAD FIVE STEP BROTHERS AND TWO STEP SISTERS. WORKED AS A FARM HAND, AT LAYFIELD HOUSE, BELLFIELD VAENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED LEEDS. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 24560, WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. DIED […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF HENRY & ELIZABETH MARY WRIGHT (1842-1929). HIS MOTHER RAN A BOARD & LODGINGS ESTABLISHMENT, AT ST JAMES STREET, HULL. MARRIED MARY CRAWFORTH (1882-1956) AT HULL, IN 1904. HIS WIFE, MARY & 4 CHILDREN LIVED AT 87, CLIFTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 87, CEYLON STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR, HE […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & JUDITH BURN WRIGHT, OF 48 GREAT THORNTON STREET, HULL AND 71 WALKER STREET, HULL. SON OF A WHITE SMITH AND LOCKSMITH. THE FOURTH OF SIX CHILDREN. HE  HAD ONE BROTHER, GEORGE AND THREE SISTERS, EDITH, MARY AND JUDITH. HE WORKED AS A WHITESMITH. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED A SAPPER, IN THE 208TH EAST RI […]

Second Mate, S.S. Thames, Mercantile Marine, †14/08/1917, (Served as MACDONALD). Son of the late Samuel and Charlotte Wright; husband of Honor Wright (nee Feeney), of 10, Villiers St. Sunderland and above address. Born in Ireland, 1876. Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial Thames SS was a British Steam Coaster of 403 tons built in 1910 by Goole […]

PRIVATE SAMUEL ESMOND WRIGHT 10/1370. Born Hull, 1897, Samuel was the youngest of five children, to Samuel (1858- 1986) and Lily Hodgson (1864-1929), of 9, Pleasant Place, Walker Street, Hull and 8, Pretoria Avenue, Edinburgh Street, Hull (War Pension address). He enlisted at City Hall, originally in the 10th Battalion before being trans […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF HENRY GRASBY WRIGHT (1854-1904) & KATE BRADBURY WRIGHT (1859-1926), OF 66 BRIDLINGTON STREET, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. WAS ONE OF THREE SONS LOST IN THE WAR. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 5 WATERHOUSE LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS), WHERE THEY RAN A TOBACCONIST BUSINESS. HE M […]