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BORN HULL 1890. KNOWN AS 'PHIL'. YOUNGEST SON OF HENRY WILLIAMS (1840-1911) & MARY JANE SLOAN (1849-1937). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN, LIVING AT 4, MAYFIELD STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS AN ARMY SERGEANT MAJOR. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN INSURANCE CLERK. HE MARRIED MARY MAY MACKEY, IN DECEMBER 1916, AT NEWCASTLE. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 4, MYRTLE […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF THOMAS RICHARD WILLIAMS (1864-1930) & RACHAEL WILLIAMS (1864-1924), OF 87, ST GEORGES ROAD (1911 CENSUS) AND 17, GRANVILLE GARDENS, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE (CWGC ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A CLERK. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 9.5 INCHES TALL, 127 LBS WEIGHT, AND 34 INCH CHEST. STUDIED AT HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE , LIVING […]

BORN HULL 10/03/1878. A ROYAL NAVAL COAL TRIMMER &A BOILER CLEANER, LIVING AT 2, ANN'S TERRACE, MANCHESTER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HIS WIFE MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS (BORN 8/7/1880), LIVED AT 3, GRANVILLE TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE DIED OF PERITONITIS, AT PLYMOUTH, ON 28/02/1917, AGED 41. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND SI […]

BORN HULL 21/06/1894. SON OF ANNIE M & WILLIAM WILLIAMS, OF 4, BURLEIGH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A GROCER'S ASSISTANT. HE ENLISTED IN THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL PALS), ON NOVEMBER 1914. TRAINED AT HURDCOTT CAMP. EMBARKED FROM DEVONPORT TO EGYPT, ON 16/12/1915. ARRIVED IN ALEXANDRIA, VIA MALTA, ON 27/12/1915. HE G […]

BORN MANCHESTER, 1876. FOURTH SON OF MR T.P WILLIAMS, INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. HIS FATHER WAS HEADMASTER OF THE WHEELER STREET SCHOOL, HULL. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN OFFICE WORKER. HUSBAND OF ADA ETHEL GRANT, LIVED AT 3 MILTON TERRACE, SOUTH BOULEVARD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 5, ETON TERRACE, PROVIDENCE ROW, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION A […]

BORN MAYOS, PEMROKESHIRE, 1887. SON OF JOHN & ANN WILLIAMS AT THIS ADDRESS ADDRESS. MARRIED GLADYS BUTLER. LIVING AT 4 EMMAS BUILDINGS, HILL STREET, HULL. SERVED AS AN ACTING CORPORAL IN THE LIFE GUARDS, CAVALRY. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 15/10/1914. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/05/1915 AT YPRES, AGED 28. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW G […]

BORN PENDLEBURY, LANCS, 1901. SON OF THE LATE BENJAMIN & MARTHA WILLIAMS, AT BOLTON ROAD SALFORD, MANCHESTER. LISTED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. COMMEMORATED TOWERE HILL MEMORIAL, . The Umba was built as Adelheid Menzell (Construction No. 287) in 1903 at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock, Germany. She was a schooner rigged, screw […]

BORN SOUTHAMPTON 1886. WIFE HANNAH CURTIS LIVED ABOVE. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. Romeo was a 1,730grt defensively-armed British merchant steamer. On the 3 March 1918 when 7 miles South from Mull of Galloway she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by a submarine. 29 lives lost, including Master. They included from Hull: ANDERSON, HERBERT […]

BORN HULL 1868. HUSBAND OF  JOHANNA WILLIAMS, OF 17 CORNWALLIS STREET, LIVERPOOL. NAVAL RECORDS. SERVED AS A COOK IN THE MERCHAN NAVY. DIED ON 05/03/1918, AGED 61. HE LEFT £143 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW. BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY IN MILITARY GRAVE.

BORN CUDWORTH, YORKSHIRE 1885. SON OF SAMUEL WALTER WILLIAMS (1851-1899) & MARGARET JANE OLIVER (1846-1921). HIS FATHER WAS FROM CORNWALL. HIS MOTHER FROM SOUTHAMPTON. HE WAS ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. WORKED AS A HULL FISHERMAN. LOST AT SEA, ON 07/02/1917, AGED 32. HIS WIFE ETHEL MARY WILLIAMS, LIVED AT 2 PRINCES AVENUE, WEST DOCK STREET, […]

BORN HULL. LIVED SACREMENTO, USA. HE ENLISTED IN NEW YORK, USA. SERVED AS A SAPPER, IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS, INLAND WATERS AND DOCKS. DIED DURING AN AN AIR RAID, ON CHATHAM, KENT. BURIED IN MARGATE CEMETERY, THANET, KENT. AWARDED THE BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND VICTORY MEDAL.

Born Stockport, Cheshire. Son of Joseph and Diana Williams, of Stockport. He enlisted in Hull. Killed in action, on 18/10/1914, aged 19.

BORN HULL 1895. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 03/05/1915. HE LEFT A WIDOW & A 16 MONTH OLD CHILD AT 10, ALEXANDRA AVENUE, GRANGE STREET, HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 12/06/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. * HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL. THERE ARE NO SOLDIERS D […]

BORN HULL 1894. PARENTS LIVED AT 14 BEAUMONT AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL LOST AT SEA. THE STEAM SHIP, 'DIDO' WAS MINED OFF SPURN POINT- 28 LIVES, INCLUDING THE MASTER WERE LOST. BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY (GRAVE REF: 45918). HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE TRINITY HOUSE MEMORIAL, THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR AND TOWER HILL MERCH […]

BORN 1870. HUSBAND OF GERTRUDE ELMA CAWCUTT DENTON (FORMERLY WILLIAMS), OF 419, BEVERLEY HIGH ROAD, HULL AND LATER ORIEL HOUSE, GROSVENOR TERRACE, HORNSEA. THEY MARRIED IN MARCH 1916. MASTER OF THE WILSON LINEL SHIP 'TYCHO'. HE WAS LOST AT SEA ON 20/05/1917, AGED 47. HE LEFT £992 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS. In May […]

BORN HULL 1889. SECOND SON OF CHARLES JAMES WILLIAMS (1870-1934) AND FLORENCE  MARY WILLIAMS (1869-1894). STEPMOTHER  EMILY HERDSMAN (1876-1964), OF 24, LEE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A SOLICITOR'S CLERK. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A HORSEMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 1.5 INCHES TALL, 119 LBS WEIGHT, 35-37 […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF WILLIAM AND GERTRUDE WILLIAMS, OF 11 CLIFTON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/11/1916, AGED 21. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM. BURIED AT HONNECHY BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION READS, "YOUR ME […]

BORN 1891. FISHERMAN. LOST ON THE 'TITANIA', ON 11/05/1915, AGED 25. HIS WIDOW LIVED HERE. Titania (H 903) FV was a British registered fishing vessel of 179grt that was sunk by the Hamburg mine laying force on the 18th May 1915 by a torpedo boat. CREW LOST ON TITANIA (H903), enemy action N. W. of the Dogger Bank, 18th May, 1915. BLOOMFIE […]

BORN NEWARK, NOTTS, 1896. SECOND SON OF JOSEPH & ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON, 2 BRIGHAM TERRACE, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A GROCER'S CLERK. HE AT 12 GRANVILLE TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES ON 09/08/1915, AGED 19. COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORI […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF DAVID AND MARY HANNAH WILLIAMSON. BOSUN. LOST AT SEA, ON 18/07/1915, AGED 25. LISTED IN THE LOST TRAWLERMEN OF HULL RECORDS. HE DIED WITH TWO OTHER SHIPMATES WHEN THE 'COMMANDER FULERTON', WAS STRANDED AT KILNSEA. THE SHIP WAS LATER SUNK BY THE GERMAN CRUISER, EMDEN ON 18/12/1917. KINGDOM, John (32), 17 Scarborough […]