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BORN HULL 1894.  ELDEST SON OF FREDERICK CAWKWELL & ANNIE SHARP, OF 33 NORTH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. EMPLOYED WITH HIS FATHER AS A DOMESTIC GROOM, AT LITTLE LANE, WELBOURN, LICOLNSHIRE (1911 CENSUS). ALSO LIVED AND WORKED AT BEDALE, YORKSHIRE. ENLISTED ALDERSHOT. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 2 […]

Born West Knottingley, Yorkshire, on 07/09/1883. Son of Nicholas Cawthorn, and Fanny Dawson, of 10, River Head, Great Driffield. The fourth of seven children. His father was a Keelman, owning the 60 ton barge "Mary", conveying coal and lime, between Hull, Wakefield, Knottingley and Sheffield. Nicholas worked with his father on the barge […]

BORN HOLLAND 1861. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. ADRIATIC SS was a British cargo steamer of 3,028grt that sailed from Newport for Marseille with coal (Admiralty charter) on the 31st October 1916 - missing, presumed war loss Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?141325

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF NANCY CHADBURN, OF 8 LORNE STREET, HULL, 12, GEORGE TERRACE, BLUNDELL STREET, AND 39, BOND STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, AND FIVE SISTERS. HUSBAND OF FLORENCE MAY CHADBURN, AT 101 CRAVEN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). THEIR SON, CHARLES WAS BORN ON 14/10/1915. A JUNIOR CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN H […]

BORN HULL 1897. ELDEST SON OF RICHARD CHADBURN & CHARLOTTE CHADBURN (1873-1957), AT 1 COBDEN PLACE, NORFOLK STREET, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. THIRD OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A STRETCHER BEARER, WITH THE 8TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 07/06/1917 […]

BORN HULL, ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 25/12/1895. ONLY SON OF JANE WILKINSON (1863- 1935) & ALFRED CHADWICK (1867-1910) OF 13, ALBERT TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). NEPHEW OF MR CHADWICK AT 80 SEATON STREET, HULL. COUSIN OF PRIVATE, SYDNEY CHADWICK, MGC, KILLED ON 14/07/1918. HE WAS BROTHER TO ELSIE MAY CHADWICK (1897-1928) A […]

BORN HULL 1894. YOUNGEST SON OF MR JOHN THOMAS CHADWICK (1863-1946) & MARY ELLEN BROCKLESBY (1870-1931), OF 80 SEATON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. UNMARRIED. BEFORE ENLISTING, HE WORKED AS A FISH CARTER AND MERCHANT, IN HIS FATHER'S FISH BUSINESS AND WAS WELL KNOWN AT HULL BI […]

BORN HUTTON CRANSWICK, YORKS 1893. SON OF CHARLES HARRISON (1864-1918) & JANE CHADWICK (1871-1928), OF 1 FERN DALE, ST MARKS STREET & THIS CWGC ADDRESS. A FORMER PREMIER OIL MILL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 07/07/1914. HIS ARMY RECORDS, DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT, 6.5 INCHES TALL, 126 LBS WEIGHT, 36.5 INCH CHEST, BROWN EYES, BR […]

BORN HULL 03/01/1893. ONLY SON OF LEWIS CHADWICK (1867-1947) & ELIZABETH CHADWICK (1869-1938), OF 'OAK VILLA', HULL ROAD, HESSLE. BROTHER TO MABEL CHADWICK (1891-1980). HIS WIFE, RUTH, LIVED AT 140 HESSLE ROAD (1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS) AND 5 CLOVELLY AVENUE, DE LA POLE AVENUE HULL (HDM 22/09/1919). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, […]

LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. ADDRESS UNTRACED. LISTED ON THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON. Hull Daily Mail, 6th January 1919:- S.S. GITANO OVERDUE. - No News of Ellerman Wilson Liner. FEARED MINED. - GOTHENBURG. Friday. - Much anxiety is felt here regarding the Wilson Line steamer GITANO (1,687 tons), which was recen […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF SARAH (PAGE) CHAFER, OF 14 EMILYS TERRACE, GILLETT STREET. LISTED IN THE LOST TRAWLERMEN OF HULL RECORDS. On December 12th, 1914, the British steel trawler CYGNUS, built in 1896 by Mackie & Thomson & Co. and owned at the time of her loss by Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co., on voyage from Grimsby […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CHARLES SAMUEL CHALLANS 12/51. Born in January 1886 in Portsmouth, Charles was the eldest of two sons to Charles and Alice Challans. The family moved north soon after for his younger brother Albert was born in Hull in 1888; the pair were lodging together at 6 Caroline Street at the time of the 1911 Census […]

BORN PERTH 1894, BUT LIVED IN HULL. DROWNED WITH HIS GIRLFIRIEND IN A BOATING ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER DON. HE IS BURIED HOOTEN PAGNELL (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD, DONACSTER. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE SENT TO HIS MOTHER, CATHERINE. Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/SGT FRANK CHALMERS 10/1072. Born 1894 in Perth, but a resident of Hull at the time of enli […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF ROBERT CHALMERS (1849-1900) AND MARGARET CUTSFORTH (1854-1928), OF 24 MARMADUKE STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED HELEN M. SPENCER IN HULL, IN APRIL 1914. THEY LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS IN THE SAME STREET. HE WAS BROTHER TO HERBERT (SERVING IN FRANCE), ADA, AND JAMES. AN ASSISTANT SUGAR BOILER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WIT […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF WALTER & ANNIE ELIZABETH CHAMBERS, OF WELTON, EAST YORKSHIRE.. SON OF A FARM LABOURER. HIS BROTHER, GEORGE HENRY CHAMBERS, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 10/10/1918, AGED 20. HE IS BURIED IN FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO […]

BORN 1871. SON OF DAVID & CATHERINE, OF WHITEHAVEN, CUMBRIA. HIS WIFE CHRISTINA LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE, WORKING AS A COAL TRIMMER ON HMS WALLINGTON. HE DIED OF DISEASE, ON 15/06/1918, AGED 47. HE IS BURIED IN HULL. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST MARYS CHURCH, LOWGATE, WAR MEMORIAL.

BORN BARTON 1879. SON OF HUTTON AND SOPHIA CHAMBERS OF 75 CLIFTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A CORN MERCHANT CLERK. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE LONDON & MANCHESTER INSURANCE COMPANY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 5486, YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 34867, 9TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE […]

BORN HULL 1884. ENLISTED HULL. WIFE EDITH & 2 CHILDREN ABOVE & 157 ST PAUL'S STREET. KILLED IN ACTION. SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS. LABOURER. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE GEORGE HERBERT CHAMBERS 28047. George was born in Hull and lived at 2 Hannah Terrace, St Pauls Street with his common law wife, Edith Eastburn. His mother and fat […]

BORN HULL 13/09/1884. HIS MOTHER LIVED AT 33 JAMES RECKITT AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL. HE WAS A CAULKER FOR MESSRS COOK, WELTON AND GEMMEL SHIP YARD, OF BEVERLEY. HIS WIFE FLORENCE HOLMES, AND TWO CHILDREN LIVED AT MILL HOUSE GROVEHILL, BEVERLEY (NAVAL RECORDS) AND 4 MELROSE VILLAS, BEVERLEY (CWGC ADDRESS). HE DIED OF DOUBLE PNEUMONI […]

BORN HULL 31/08/1898. SON OF FREDERICK, OF 30 LOCKWOOD STREET, HULL. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HE LIVED WITH THIS SISTER AT 23 WEST STREET, HULL. A FORMER MILKMAN FOR ISSAC TAYLOR, OF HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AGED 19. JOINED AS PRIVATE, 38130, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 38130, TO THE 2/4TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT […]