Regiment: 20th Hussars

BORN HULL. LIVED MIDDLESBOROUGH. ENLISTED MIDDLESBOROUGH. SON OF ROBERT & ADA GRAINGER, MIDDLESBOROUGH, ABOVE. KILLED IN ACTION.

BORN PARIS 19/8/1891. ENLISTED HULL 10/8/1910. SON OF JOSEPH & ANN (LAVAL). WENT TO PRYME ST RC SCHOOL. WAS A FORMER HAIR DRESSER. BEFORE HE WENT TO FRANCE HE WAS STATIONED AT COLCHESTER. HE HAD A BRIEF LEAVE IN FEBRUARY AND RETURNED TO FRANCE ON THE 7TH FEBRUARY. HE WAS KILLED A WEEK LATER BY AN UNDERGROUND GERMAN MINE, WHICH BLEW U […]

BORN HULL 1892. ELDEST SON OF MR JOHN LILL (1859-1917) & MRS RACHEL ANN BLACKLEY (1866-1959), OF 35 PARROTT STREET, SELBY STREET, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN FOOTBALL CIRCLES HAVING PLAYED FOR RECKITT'S RUGBY TEAM AND CENTRAL HULL. HE WORKED A LONG TIME FOR GARDEN VILLAGE, BUT FOR T […]

BORN HULL 1892. ENLISTED SCARBOROUGH. SON OF FRANCES & ELIZABETH PEARSON LIVED REETON, SCARBOROUGH.

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF LUKE JAMES WASS (1868-1922) & CLARA LOFT (1865-1944), OF THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. ONE OF FOUR SONS WHO ALL DIED IN THE WAR. A GENERAL LABOURER. HE JOINED THE ARMY ON 13/08/1913, AGED 19 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS. HE ENLISTED IN THE 20TH CORPS OF HUSSARS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 124 LBS WE […]