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BORN KENNINGHALL, NORFOLK, 1887. SON OF ROBERT WHILEY (1849-1923) AND ELIZABETH WHILEY, FROM NORWICH. HIS FATHER WAS A COALMAN (1891 CENSUS). ARTHUR MARRIED ELSIE DRURY (1891-1940), AT SHEFFIELD, IN 1908. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN THOMAS AND MARY ELLEN DRURY, OF SHEFFIELD. ARTHUR WAS WORKING AS AN ELECTRICAL LABOURER AND LIVING AT 29 […]

BORN HULL 25/10/1883. SON OF ALFRED WM & SARAH ANN E. WIFE JANE HARRIET (DALBY) ABOVE NB: WHINCUP'S ALL SERVED AT SEA - 33 CLIFTON TERRACE, JANE STREET, HULL. HMT Sapper sank with all hands on a mine laid on December 24, 1917 by the German minelaying submarine UC-71. Per Admiralty records, the explosion was witnessed by both the Ow […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF ROBERT HENRY WHINHAM (1862-1935) & MARIA OBRIDGE (1867-1899), OF 43, CANNING STREET, HULL & 43, NORFOLK STREET, HULL. A CAREER SOLDIER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 23/03/1910. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 16/08/1914. SERVED AS DRIVER, 60996, 50TH ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.  DISCHARGED ON 13/10/1916. AWARDED SILVER WAR BAD […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF WILLIAM ROBERT & ELLEN WHINHAM - TRAVELLERS. LIVED IN CARAVAN SCARBOROUGH ST. WIFE ETHEL WHINHAM AT 6 LITTLE TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL (CWGC AND  1918 VOTERS ADDRESS) HE IS BURIED AT FAENZA COMMUNAL CEMETERY, ITALY

BORN HULL 1901. SON OF ALICE (1866-1935) & JOHN WILLIAM WHIPHAM (1837-1915), OF 37 SOMMERSCALES STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND  9 , FINSBURY GROVE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FORUR BROTHERS. GEORGE & WILLIAM WHIPHAM SERVED AT SAME ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 53RD DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, A […]

Born Hornsea, 1896. Son of Albert Edward Whipp and Emily Marion Dyson. he father was Managing Director a steam shipping company. He had elder siblings, Kathleen, a nurse and William, a Shipping Clerk. The family lived in Croydon, Surrey, Brentwood, Essex and Shoreham, Sussex, where Philip went to the local Grammar School. Philip worked […]

Private 241934, 1st/5th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Born 1897. Died 3 June 1917. Buried in FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND, Somme, France. Plot IV. Row K. Grave 2. Son of William and Annie Whisker of Gravel Hill Farm, Swine. This is an extract of the diary written by Herbert.- Left England 3 March 1916 and landed a […]

BORN HULL 1893. ENLISTED 28/9/14. SON OF JOHN & ANN WHISKER ABOVE. ONE OF 5 CHILDREN (3 SONS). HE WON THE MILITARY MEDAL KEEPING HIS GUN IN ACTION, UNDER HEAVY FIRE. HIS PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 22ND MARCH 1918. HE WAS ENGAGED. Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL HARRY WHISKER MM 12/698. Born in 1893, Harry was the y […]

BORN HULL 1881. BAPTISED 07/07/1881. EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, SELLARS, PAINTER & DECORATORS, WEST PARADE, HULL WHERE HE SERVED HIS APPRENTERSHIP. ENLISTED HULL CITY HALL ON 11/12/15 AGED 34. JOINED THE 15TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY ON 10/06/1916 (21 ST DIVISION, 64TH BRIGADE). POSTED TO FRANCE 18/11/16. DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO CHEST. MA […]

BORN HULL 20/02/1895. THE ONLY SON OF LEONARD WHITAKER (1866-1942) & LOUISA BROOKS (1865-1931), OF 76, PEEL STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO OLDER SISTERS, DAISY AND ELSIE. A FORMER HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY CLERK, LIVING AT 70, BLAKE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD PERSONAL REFERENCES FROM REVEREND, W.H. HEAP, QUEENS HALL, HULL & […]

Born Barton 1888. Son of Alfred Edward Whitaker (b. 1861) and Elizabeth Higham (1860-1935), of 26 Margaret Street, Hull (Pension records address). He had two brothers and a sister. A former Rullyman for the Hull and Barnsley Railway. He married at Sculcoates, Hull, 1910. His wife Gertrude Desforges (1892-1972), lived at 24 Seaton Stre […]

BORN MARYLEBONE, LONDON 1877. SON OF JOSEPH EDWARD & CONSTANCE ZULEIKA ELIZABETH FISH (1858-1929), of 42 WESTBOURNE AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). RESIDED PAIGNTON, DEVON. WORKED FOR THE HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY COMPANY, CHARLOTTE STREET, HULL. ENLISTED IN SOUTHAMPTON. SERVED AS A CYCLIST IN THE 1/9TH HAMPSHIRE TERRITORIAL FORCE. D […]

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF CLARA PLEDGE & THE LATE GEORGE WHITTAKER. A HULL POSTMAN, WHO RESIDED WITH HIS MOTHER AT 32 GOULTON STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN OCTOBER 1915. SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/07/1917, AGED 36. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 24/08/1917. *

BORN HULL 04/01/1889. SON OF STAFFORD BEESTON WHITBY (MBE) & HETTIE WHITBY, OF NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, OTTAWA, CANADA, AND 8 VICTORIA AVENUE, HULL. HARRY ALDEN WHITBY WAS EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HE HAD A BRILLIANT SCHOLASTIC CAREER. HE ATTENDED PARIS UNIVERSITY, AND SPENT TWO AND HALF YEARS STUDYING IN GERMANY. HE WAS […]

BORN HULL. LIVED SOUTH SHIELDS. ENLISTED AT ALDERSHOT. JOINED THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS. HE SERVED IN FRANCE FROM 05/01/1915. DIED ON 30/01/1915, AT ABERDEEN HOSPITAL. HE DID NOT LEAVE HIS ARMY EFFECTS TO ANYONE. A MESSAGE ON HIS ARMY SERVICE CARD REQUESTS DISPOSAL OF HIS ARMY MEDALS. UNTRACED?

Born South Shields, Durham, 1874. He was a Ship's fireman, living at 11 Elgin Terrace, Bean Street, Hull (1911 census address). He enlisted Hull. Served with the 2nd East Yorkshire Regiment. Killed in action, on 23/04/1915. His army effects were left to his widow Mary Louise Kessel (1884-1934) and daughter, Cornelia. His widow who he mar […]

BORN HULL 10/06/1890. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY ANN WHITE, OF 63 CARLTON STREET, HULL (HIS ARMY ADDRESS). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. A SHOP ASSISTANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 10/12/1890, AGED 25 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. JOINED AS 22466, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. PROMOTED TO CORPORAL, ON 26/07/1916. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 18/12/1916. TRANSFERRED TO TH […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM WHITE (1855-1941) & ADA BROWN (1859-1931). EX RULLEYMAN FOR MR LANGLEY FISH MERCHANTS, HESSLE ROAD. HE MARRIED IN 1914. HIS WIFE, LILY ROWAN (1893-1987) AND DAUGHTER, LILY (1915-2016), LIVED AT 2, PERSEVERANCE TERRACE, WEST DOCK AVENUE AND 1, THORNTON PLACE, GREAT THORNTON STREET, HULL (HDM ADD […]

BORN BINGLEY, YORKS 1877. SON OF WHEATER WHITE (1848-1907) & SARAH SOPHIA ANN NEWTON (1853-1938), HALIFAX, YORKSHIRE. A FORMER PAINT GRINDER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 09/12/1915, AGED 39 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS. DESCRIBES AS 5 FOOT 7.5 INCHES TALL, 35 INCH CHEST, AND WORE SPECTACLES. EX 5357 1/4TH EYR. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 28/07/1916. TRA […]

BORN HULL 1900. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM WHITE AND MARTHA HENRIETTA WRIGHT, OF 106, GREAT THORNTON ST, HULL AND 5, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ENLISTED HULL. EX 13003, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 9TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/09/1918, AGE 18. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT […]