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BORN HULL 23/12/1893. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM WIGGLESWORTH (1859-1919) AND ADA EDWARDS (1866-1910). BROTHER OF WILLIAM ARTHUR WIGGLESWORTH. THEY  LIVED AT 5 RICHMOND TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ALSO LIVED WITH HIS SISTER, AT 14 ADA'S TERRACE, SEATON STREET, HULL. HE WAS A TRAM WAY STORE KEPPER FOR HULL CORPORATION. HE EN […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF ALFRED WIGGLESWORTH (1859-1913) AND FLORENCE MASON (1866-1935), OF 18 RUSTENBURG STREET, NEW BRIDGE ROAD, HULL. HE MARRIED FRANCES HELENA COATES, IN HULL IN 1909. THEY LIVED AT 43 DURHAM STREET (1915) AND 310 , HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE HULL WHOLESALE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. DESCR […]

BORN HULL 1896. ELDEST SON OF JAMES WIGGLESWORTH (1875-1938) & EDITH HELENA RICKABY (1873-1949), OF 89, MERSEY STREET, HULL, 86, NEW BRIDGE ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 235, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A BUTCHER. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. EMPLOYED AS A BUTCHER'S ASSISTANT. HE […]

BORN WAKEFIELD 1896. SON OF ALBERT  EDWARD WIGGLESWORTH (1897–1943) AND  ANNIE CONSERDINE (1873-1929), OF 2 WATERLOO STREET, THORNE LANE, WAKEFIELD. THIRD OF SEVEN CHILDREN. WORKED AS A TRAIN BOOKER, IN SIGNAL BOX. ENLISTED NORMANTON. SERVED WITH THE 3RD KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. DIED AT SUTTON, NEAR HULL, ON 15/06/1915, AGED […]

BORN HULL 1899. ENLISTED LEEDS. SON OF WILLIAM PRESTLEY & ESTHER WIGHTMAN. SERVED IN 'D' COMPANY.

BORN BARROW, LANCS 19/10/1884. SON OF JAMES BROWN & CATHERINE, OF 28 REDBOURNE STREET, HULL. JOINED ROYAL NAVY IN 1904. RESIDED AT 23 ALBERMARLE TERRACE, BOULEVARD, HULL. HE HAD SERVED ELEVEN YEARS IN THE NAVY WAS A CARPENTER ON HMS "GOOD HOPE", WHICH WAS SUNK, ON 01/11/1914, HE DROWNED AGED 28. LISTED AS KILLED ON THE REDBOURNE STRE […]

BORN DEPTFORD 24/02/1886. WIFE ETHEL WIGNALL ABOVE. HULL HEROES WEB SITE. NAVAL ADDRESS. HE IS BURIED AT DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY, KENT. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "BELOVED HUSBAND OF ETHEL WIGNALL - AT REST" Falmouth III, built by J. Duthie Torry SB. Co., Aberdeen in 1909 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1894. SON OF JOHN STORK & LUCY ANN, OF THWAITE STREET, COTTINGHAM, HULL. ENLISTED ST ALBANS. EX, PRIVATE, 4420, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 203060, TO THE 1/4TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR 15 MONTHS BEFORE HE WAS WOUNDED. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT BOULOGNE HOSPITAL, […]

BORN HULL 06/03/1895. SON ROBERT HENRY WILBURN (1858-1950) & EMILY MARY FRANKS (1860-1899), AT 7, LINDEN GROVE, ARUNDLE STREET, HULL. HE LIVED AT 52 SHERBURN STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED AUGUST 1915. SERVED WITH COLONEL SHAW, IN THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WENT TO FRANCE APRIL 1915. WOUNDED AT YPRES IN MAY 1915 […]

BORN HULL 13/08/1888. SON OF ANTHONY & CLARA KATE WILBURN (1862-1924). HE LIVED IN THE WORKHOUSE WITH HIS MOTHER, AND BROTHER, WALTER, UNTIL HE WAS ADOPTED, BY JOHN AND MARIA HUNT OF ELSTRONWICK, AGED 13. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR CROWLE & SONS IRON & STEEL WORKS. HE WAS ALSO A  'HULL HARRIER' AND RAN IN THE EIGHT MILE […]

Born Hull, 1887. Son of Albert and Kate Ellen Wilburn (1859-1947), of 21 Grosvenor Avenue, Grosvenor Street, Beverley Road, Hull and 1, Beta Villas, Mayfield Street, Hull (War Pension address). He had two  brothers Harold and Stanley and four sisters, Ethel, Mary, Elsie and Mable. He worked as a Waiter (1911 census) Enlisted at Hull, o […]

Born Kentish Town, London, 1878. Married at St James, Hull, on 17th May 1900. Husband of Clara Wilby, at 70, Paisley Street, Hull (War Pension Address). They had two sons, Clarence Henry and Frederick William. He was a radiator Machinist and lamp lighter. Also an artillery reservist with the East Yorkshire Artillery. Described as 5 foot […]

BORN DERBY 1895. ELDEST SON OF DANIEL HILIKER WILCOCKSON & SARAH WILCOCKSON, LIVING AT THIS ADDRESS. SON OF A BOOK BINDER. WORKED AS AN APPRENTICE MARINE FITTER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 2482, "C" COMPANY, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 17/04/1915 TO DEFEND THE YPRES CANAL. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION […]

BORN HULL 14/09/1892. SON OF ROBERT WILCOCKSON (1855-1937) & EMILY SARAH BLACKMAN (1858-1937). ONE OF EIGHT 8 CHILDREN, LIVING AT 84 MELROSE STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED OLIVE PARKINSON (1887-1958), AT HULL, ON 27/02/1916, LIVING AT 8, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, MARY (1916-1987). HE ENLISTED IN THE ROY […]

BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF JOHN WILCOCKSON & ADA WILCOCKSON, AT THIS 1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS. A FORMER SHIPPING CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN THE 10TH EYR (HULL PALS). TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST BATTALION, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/04/1918, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, DORIS I MILLWARD, WHO HE […]

BORN HULL 1888. FOURTH  SON OF EDWARD THOMAS WILCOX (1854-1930) & THE LATE ELIZA LEE (1854-1909), OF 15, ESTCOURT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 4, MATLOCK VILLAS, ESTCOURT STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK STEVEDORE. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HIS MOTHER, DIED ON 28/12/1909. HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. HE WAS 5 FOOT TALL, […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF EDWARD THOMAS WILCOX (1854-1930) & THE LATE ELIZA LEE (1854-1909) OF 15, ESTCOURT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 4, MATLOCK VILLAS, ESTCOURT STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK STEVEDORE. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE WAS AN APPRENTICE MOTOR MECHANIC. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 11/12/1914. TRAINED […]

BORN BIRKENHEAD, CHESHIRE, ON 07/06/1888. SON OF WILLIAM E. AND ANNIE WILCOX. ELDEST OF THREE CHILDREN. A FORMER BANK CLERK. HE SERVED AS A CAPTAIN IN THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS. HE MARRIED ELLEN McGILL, AT BIRKENHEAD, CHESHIRE, IN 1916. HE DIED OF INFLUENZA, IN IRELAND ON 13/02/1919, AGED 31. HE LEFT £449 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW ELLEN, […]

BORN BEVERLEY 19/02/1892. SON OF JAMES WILD (1840-1912) & MARY SANDERS (1847-1918), OF 8 ASH TREE GROVE, HOME CHURCH LANE, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING. SON OF A RETIRED COAL MERCHANT. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND SEVEN SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS AN ACCOUNTS CLERK FOR MR SCOTT, ACCOUNTANTS, HULL. FATALLY WOUNDED AT YPRES. THE 2ND LIFE GUARDS BAT […]

BORN HULL 1878. ONLY SON OF JAMES WILDBORE (1845-1908) & SUSANNAH BUOY (1848-1907). HE HAD FIVE SISTERS. HE MARRIED ANNIE SEWELL (1878-1966), AT SCULCOATES REGISTRY OFFICE, HULL, ON 15/08/1908. EX MILLER'S CLERK. HIS WIFE ANNIE SEWELL, AND TWO SONS, LIVED AT 86 EDGECUMBE STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL THIS WAS HIS ARMY RECORD ADDRESS. […]