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BORN WAKEFIELD 1893. SON OF FAITH & THE LATE REVEREND, JAMES AARON, OF EGTON STREET & 29 MARVEL STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR JIM WORKED ON SHIP KEELS, LIKE HIS FATHER BEFORE HIM. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JIM AARON SERVED WITH THE 8TH KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY AND WAS KILLED ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. 1ST […]

BORN HULL 17/10/1894, SCULCOATES. SON OF THOMAS HENRY ABBA (1855-1920) & THE LATE ELIZABETH JOHNSON (1860-1908), AT 9 , SPYVEE STREET, HULL. SON OF A CABINET MAKER. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. WORKED AS A JUNIOR CLERK AND JOINED THE "HULL COMMERCIALS". HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 03/09/1914. SERVED WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, 'A' COM […]

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF THOMAS HENRY ABBA (1855-1920) & THE LATE ELIZABETH JOHNSON (1860-1908), AT 9 SPYVEE STREET, HULL. SON OF A CABINET MAKER. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HIS FAMILY ALSO LIVED 23 & 100 WITHAM & 47 COURTNEY STREET, HULL. HE WAS A SALESMAN AND COLLECTOR BEFORE THE WAR. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 22536, […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF THOMAS ABBOTT, OF 146, CUMBERLAND STREET, HULL. HE HAD SERVED IN INDIA FOR TWO AND HALF YEARS, AND RETURNED HOME FOR ONE MONTH BEFORE JOINING HIS REGIMENT IN FRANCE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 21ST FEBRUARY 1915, AGED 23. HIS DEATH AND ADDRESS WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 4TH MARCH 1915 & HDM 15/5/1 […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHNATHAN & ISABELLA ABBOTT, OF 47 , WITTY STREET, HULL. HE ALSO LIVED AT 32, CLYDE STREET IN 1911 & 42. (NAVAL RECORDS). HE WORKED AS A SHIP'S FIREMAN AND WAS UNMARRIED. HE WAS LOST AT SEA ON 21/5/1915,AGED 22. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES 19/06/1915. Sabrina (H 346) FV was a British registere […]

BORN HULL 23/8/1881. SON OF HENRY & MARY ANN ABBOTT AT 108, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) & 1, WHITFIELD AVENUE, DIVISION ROAD, HULL (ADDRESS SUPPLIED BY JON GROBBLER). HE WAS MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES FOR MINESWEEPING SERVICES. LEFT WIFE MARY & TWO CHILDREN. AT 5, CHURCHILL STREET, DOVER (NAVAL RECORDS). NOTE: A JOHN WIL […]

BORN HULL 01/10/1897. BAPTISED AT ST CHARLES BORROMEO, ON 17TH OCTOBER 1897. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE ABEL (1872-1938) & MARY ELLEN SNEE (1873-1952), OF 4, SPRINGFIELD VILLAS, MORLEY STRETT, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 8, JOHNSON'S BUILDINGS, TREVOR STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ELDEST SON OF A CARRIER. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND FOUR SI […]

BORN COLUMBO, SRI LANKA, 1893. SERVED ON THE HULL SHIP 'ZARA'. LOST AT SEA ON 13TH APRIL 1917, AGED 24, THROUGH ENEMY ACTION. HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY & CWGC RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. SS Zara, built by Wm. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow in 1897 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman' […]

BORN HULL, 01/12/1889. SON OF GUNDER ABRAHAMSEN (1859-1916) AND MRS BERTHA LARSEN (1857-1937). SON OF A PUBLICAN. HIS PARENTS WERE BORN IN NORWAY. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A TRAWLER FISHERMAN. HE MARRIED AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, HULL, IN 1911. WIFE HARRIET GERTRUDE BUTT (1890-1960) AND CHILDREN, NORMAN AND JOYCE, LIVED AT THORSBY […]

BORN RUSSIA 1856. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. NOTE: ABRAHAMSON FAMILY LIVED AT 92 OSBORNE STREET, HULL. (HDM 12/12/1918) CALYPSO SS was a 2,876grt British Merchant ship built in 1904 by Earle’s Sb. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Hull and owned by T. Wilson, Sons & Co., Ltd., Hull . There was accommodation for 57-1st, […]

BORN RUSSIA 1891. HIS FAMILY LIVED AT 92 OSBORNE STREET. A BOOT MAKER. WELL KNOWN IN THE HULL MARKET PLACE. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, DURING 1917 AND SERVED FOR 15 MONTHS IN THE BRITISH ROYAL FUSILIERS' JEWISH DIVISION. HE DIED OF MALARIAL FEVER,ON 14/10/1918, AGED 27. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY. SAM WAS AN ACTIVE MEMB […]

BORN HULL 1851. SON OF THE LATE ROBERT ACASTER AND MARY JACKSON. MARRIED JANUARY 1874. WIFE ELIZABETH JANET OLESON ABOVE ADDRESS (NAVAL RECORDS). SHIP SUNK BY SUBMARINE OFF BEACHY HEAD. SS Tycho, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd., Hull in 1904 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was […]

BORN SWANLAND 1886. KNOWN AS 'MUSH'. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS "A LITTLE MAN WITH A BIG HEART." ENLISTED HULL. LIVED IN HESSLE. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT YPRES, ON 14/08/1915, AGED 29. BURIED AT LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 20TH AUGUST 1915, & ON THE 6TH SEPTEMBER […]

BORN LIVERPOOL 09/01/1883. SON OF WILLIAM ROBINSON ACKERS AND ELIZABETH COLLINS. ONE OF TWELVE CHILDREN. HE WORKED IN HULL AS A COACH PAINTER AND BOARDED AT 3 SHAKESPEARE STREET, HULL, (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED WALLSEND ON TYNE. SERVED IN THE 9TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED DURING THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE ON 22/3/1918, AGED 35. […]

BORN HALIFAX 1885. RESIDED IN HULL BEFORE THE WAR. EMPLOYED BY NOLAN'S HOUSE FURNISHERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, WHEN WAR BEGAN SON OF HARRY & DOROTHY ACKROYD, OF HALIFAX. HE WORKED AND ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 22088, THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT ST LUKES HOSPITAL,  ON 01/08/1916, AGED 30. HIS DEA […]

BORN HULL 1900. SON OF ALFRED CHEETHAM BLYTH ACUM & ADA ACUM ABOVE. LOST WITH 8 SHIPMATES IN THE NORTH SEA. On 30/04/1917, the Hull steam trawler. 'INDUSTRIA' was captured by a U-boat and sunk by time bombs in the North Sea. Position of loss also reported as NE of Humber, 30/04/1917 (?) Also, reported by U Boat.net as sunk 25/03/1917 […]

Born Kimberworth, Rotherham, 12/09/1889. Son of James Rawson Adams of Koolong, Mildura, Victoria, Australia and Sarah Elizabeth Colbeck, of the Vicarage, Burstwick, Hull (CWGC address). Educated at St Margaret's grammar School, Mildura, Australia. Employed as a fruit grower with his father. described as 5 foot, 8 inches tall, 36 inch che […]