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 (Hull Commercials)
BORN HULL 1880. SON OF SARAH WINTER, OF 9 , MARSH STREET, HULL AND 5 WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED AT OPPY WOOD, ON 03/05/1917, AGED 37. COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL. LISTED ON NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE ROLL OF HONOUR.
4. Nelson Square, New George Street, Hull
Died on
22/09/1916
Aged
19
Born Goole, Yorkshire, 1896. Son of George Woffinden (1864-1948) and Mary Ann Elizabeth Charlton (1864-1934) of, St Mark Place Bucther Row Beverley (1911 Census), Clark's Yard, Wilbert Lane, Beverley, 13 Waltham Terrace, Mill Lane, Beverley (army address) and 4. Nelson Square, New George Street, Hull (War Pension Address). Son of a Gard […]
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM& ANNIE WOODFIELD. ARMY ADDRESS -26 ARUNDLE STREET. NO CWGC RECORD OF DEATH. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FREDERICK WILLIAM WOODIFIELD 33117. Born 1898, the eldest of three children and only son of John and Annie Woodifield of 34 Kent Street, Holderness Road, Hull. Frederick was a Box Cutter by trad […]
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ARTHUR HAYWARD WRIGHT 10/856. Born in Hull, on 15/07/1894, the eldest of four children to John and Ada Wright of 96 Legsby Avenue, Grimsby. One of the original Pals, Arthur was a Clerk before the war but queued to enlist in the long lines outside Hull City Hall in the heady days of September 1914. He was […]
1, DERWENT AVENUE, ALFONSO STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
25/06/1917
Aged
19
BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM & ANN MARY YOUNG, OF, 1, DERWENT AVENUE, ALFONSO STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCK FIREMAN. HE HAD TWO SISTERS, DARCY AND ELSIE MAY, AND ONE BROTHER, CYRIL ARTHUR YOUNG (1901-1930). HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A CLERK FOR THOMAS WILSON & SONS. HE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF QUEENS HALL CH […]
