10th (Service) Battalion (1st Hull) and 11th (Service) Battalion (2nd Hull)
02.09.1914 The 11th formed and the 10th formed on 29.08.1914 both by Lord Nunburnholme and the East Riding Territorial Force Association at Hull, then moved to Hornsea.
June 1915 Both moved to Ripon and joined the 92nd Brigade of the 31st Division.
01.09.1915 The 11th taken over by the War Office and the 10th on 11.09.1914 and then both moved to Salisbury Plain.
15.12.1915 Mobilised for war and embarked for Egypt from Devonport, Plymouth.
30.12.1915 Arrived in Port Said to defend the Suez Canal.
Mar 1916 Moved to France and the Division engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
During 1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of the Ancre.
During 1917
Operations on the Ancre, The Third Battle of the Scarpe, The Capture of Oppy Wood.
During 1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The First Battle of Arras, The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Defence of Nieppe Forest, The attack at La Becque, The capture of Vieux Berquin, The Battle of Ypres, The action of Tieghem.
11.11.1918 The 10th ended the war in Belgium, near Flobecq east of Renaix.
Regiment: 10th East Yorkshire Regiment Machine Gun Section
, NORTHUMBERLAND AVE., HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
06/08/1916
Aged
19
BORN BEVERLEY 1897. SON OFJOHN & ANNIE BARKER, 35 CORNWALL STREET, COTTINGHAM. ONE OF 10 CHILDREN. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. JOINED THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIEMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN SECTION. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 06/08/1916, AGED 19, AT NO;7 GENERAL HOSPITAL, ST OMER. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE ROLL OF […]
BORN VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, 1896. AKA FRANCIS JAMES. SECOND SON OF JAMES CLARKE BROCKLEHURST (1860-1944) & MARGARET McCANN (1865-1944), OF 56 , PLANE STREET, HULL. HIS GRANDFATHER WAS WILLIAM McCANN. SON OF A SHIPPING CLERK. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A CLERK, IN THE FRUIT TRADE. […]
2nd Lieutenant
BORN ASCENSION ISLAND, 1880. SON OF MAJOR, EDWARD BARRINGTON STEPHENS (1850-1918), & EDITH MARIA STEPHENS (1857-1932), OF 49 PARK GROVE, HULL , AND 8 HINDERWELL STREET, HULL(PROBATE ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS A FORMERÂ ROYAL MARINE MAJOR, A FOUNDER OF THE HULL SCOUT MOVEMENT AND A LEADING RECRUITER AT THE PRYME STREET OFFICE, HULL. HE […]
