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BORN LOCKINGTON 1875. SON OF ROBERT & JANE WOOLL. LIVED BEVERLEY. LIEUTENANT AND QUARTER MASTER OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS HAD RISEN THROUGH THE RANKS. ENLISTED AT 17 YEARS OLD IN THE IST BATTALION AND RETIRED AFTER 21 YEARS SERVICE. HE POSSESSED THE NILE EXPEDITION MEDAL 1898. SOUTH AFRICAN WAR MEDALS 1899- 1902, THE MOHAN EXPE […]

BORN LEEDS 1899. SON OF HENRY & ELIZABETH AGNES WOOLLARD. LIVED WITH SISTER MRS A. D. CARTER, IN HEDON. ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY PRIVATE, 20096 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/10/1917, AGED 18. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS GUARDIAN, JOSEPH WILLIAM HOWARD AT THIS PENSION LEDGE […]

BORN HULL 1877. A HULL HAIRDRESSER. WELL KNOWN IN THE DRYPOOL AREA. HE ENLISTED IN THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL PALS), IN 1914. MARRIED WIFE KATIE ANNIE (WALLIS), AT HULL, IN 1915. LIVED AT 4 HOLDERNESS AVENUE, HYDE PARK, LEEDS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 24/11/1916, AGED 39. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HI […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF FRANCIS WOOLLOCK & EMILY (SCOTT). MARRIED 13/06/1908. FIRST WIFE, FRANCES HYLAND, DIED 1914. REMARRIED 1917. SECOND WIFE, LETTICE AMELIA HAMPTON LIVED AT 89 , WESTBOURNE STREET, HULL,. HE WORKED IN ROCHDALE AND OLDHAM. ENLISTED IN ROCHDALE, JOINING THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS ON 01/09/1914. HE SERVED IN EGYPT. WO […]

BORN HODDESDON, HERTS. 1877. WIFE SARAH WOOLMER LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. FISHERMAN. On 27/05/1915 the Hull steam trawler SOUTHWARD HO (H456) was lost with all hands due to enemy action 88 miles E.x N. of Spurn Head. Also reported as Missing, lost all hands. Vessel built in 1899 by Doig & Broadley. PEOPLE ON BOARD FISHING VESSEL 'S […]

PRIVATE, ALBERT DALE WOOMBLE, 12/1103. Born IN Hull, 1896, Albert was the eldest son of James Woomble (1872-1949) and Meady Thompson (1876-1945), of 11 Lockwood Street, Hull. Son of a Blacksmith striker, he had five brothers and three sisters. Albert was a Hull brewery labourer, who enlisted in the Hull Pals, on 6th November 1914. His […]

BORN HULL 26/09/1893. SON OF WILLIAM AND CAROLINE WORALL, OF 7, LEO TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL, (CWGC & NAVAL ADDRESS). SON OF A RETIRED POLICEMAN. HE WORKED AS AN OIL MERCHANT CLERK, LIVING AT 110 WATERLOO STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE SERVED IN THE DRAKE BATTALION, ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION. DIED ON THE 02/01/1918, AGED 25. BURIE […]

BORN HULL 1889. ENLISTED ST PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX. KIA. SON OF THE LATE THOMAS F WORKMAN & ROSINA ANNIE WORKMAN - 10 PRIORY STREET, & 1 BAYMAN PLACE, CAMDEN. EX CAR MAN.

BORN HULL 20/3/1876. SON OF WILLIAM EDWARD & ANNIE ELIZABETH WORMALD. MARRIED 4/02/1901. HIS WIFE ELLEN ANN HIGGS AND FOUR CHILDREN LIVED AT 48 ALICIA STREET AND AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS LABOURER AT A PAINT FACTORY BEFORE THE WAR. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. EX 26619, EYR. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED AT SHEFFIELD. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS WID […]

BORN HULL 02/07/1896. SON OF HENRY (HARRY) WORNER (1861-1923) AND SUSANNAH DODSWORTH (1861-1904). HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. THE LARGE FAMILY LIVED AT 221, WINCOLMLEE, HULL (NAVAL ADDRESS) & 2, YORK STREET, HULL. A FORMER LABOURER. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 10/05/1915. SERVED AS AN ABLE SEAMAN, IN THE ROYAL NAVY DIVISION, […]

Born Out Newton, Yorkshire, on 20/02/1890. Son of Edward (1862-1944) and Fanny Bosman (1870-1930), of Clarke's Lane, Patrington, Hull. When Fred Bosman Worrall was born on 20 February 1890, his father, Edward, was 27 and his mother, Fanny, was 20. He had three brothers and three sisters. Employed as a Railway Porter. He enlisted on 2 […]

BORN HULL 07/08/1861. MARRIED ALL SAINTS CHURCH, HULL CHRISTMAS DAY 1880, AGED 19. WIFE AMY ELLEN GIBBONS (1862-1928) & 7 CHILDREN LIVED ETON STREET, HULL. SON OF JOHN WORRELL (1840 -1894) & SUSAN ELIZABETH FOOT WORRELL (1842 -1898) - 154 PORTER STREET. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. Titania (H 903) FV was a British registered fishing vess […]

BORN ARMLEY, LEEDS, 03/02/1889. SON OF JAMES WORSNOP AND ELIZABETH RINGROSE, OF 15, SKIRBECK STREET, NEW WORTLEY, WEST YORKSHIRE. EMPLOYED BY THE HULL CORPORATION AS A TEACHER. FORMER HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL MASTER WHERE HE TAUGHT ENGLISH AND GERMAN. HE MARRIED LOUISE POWIS (1887-1981), IN BRAMLEY, ON 12/04/1915. HIS FAMILY MOVED TO 17 BRA […]

BORN HULL 1895. FIRST SON OF JOHN WORSNOP (1867-1923) & ELIZA HARRIET BRIDGES (1866-1921, OF 14 RICHMOND TERRACE, WALLER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 6 BLENKINS PLACE, WALLER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. A LABOURER. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE RANK FLOUR MILL, CLARENCE STREET, HULL. HE EN […]

BORN ST JOHNS, HULL 20/03/1884. SON OF ALFRED WOYEN (1862-1919) & MARY WOYEN. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. ENLISTED IN HULL. A DRILL INSTRUCTOR, IN THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS. HE RESIDED IN WINDSOR. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT ST JEAN, ON 30/03/1916, AGED 32. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ANNIE MARIE KINSON. HE IS BURIED AT WHI […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF ALFRED WOYEN (1862-1919) & MARY WOYEN. A DOCK LABOURER & MARY WOYEN. THIS WAS HIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 20. HIS ELDER BROTHER, ALFRED WOYEN WAS A DRILL INSTRUCTOR, IN THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS, WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 30/03/1916, AGED 32. […]

BORN HULL 1892. ONLY CHILD OF ALFRED & ELIZABETH WRACK, OF 18 MYRTLE GROVE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL AND 12 ROLLO AVENUE, ARUNDLE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & ARMY ADDRESS). A SAW MILL WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 12/12/1915, AGED 22 YEARS AND 330 DAYS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 122 LBS WEIGHT, & 34 INCH CHEST. ARR […]

SS Tummel, built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Goole in 1912 and owned at the time of her loss by E. P. Hutchinson, Hull, was a British steamer of 531 tons. On February 24th, 1916, Tummel, on a voyage from Grimsby to Tréport with a cargo of coal, was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-5 (Ulrich Mohrbutter), 7 m […]

BORN HULL 1898. SECOND SON OF JOHN THOMAS & FANNY WRAY AT AT 59. BRIDLINGTON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). THEY SHARED 62, BRIDLINGTON STREET WITH THE JOHNSON FAMILY AND THERE WERE 13 PEOPLE LIVING THERE (1911 CENSUS). EMPLOYED AS A GROCER'S CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 3027 EYR. TRANSFERRED TO THE 8TH BORDER REGIME […]