Regiment: 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)

Last Name
Address
Narrative
8, POPLAR GROVE, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
13/05/1915
       
Aged
23
BORN SOUTH FERRIBY, 1894. ELDEST SON OF ALFRED & DINAH HANDSON. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN, LIVING AT 22, SWANN STREET, HULL. (CWGC ADDRESS). JOHN WILLIAM HANDSON WAS A FORMER SOLDIER AND RESERVIST. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 6.5 INCHES TALL, WEIGHING 124 LBS. 'FAIR' BUILD. DARK COMPLEXION, BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR. WESLEYAN RELIGION. HE […]
, WALKER STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
13/05/1915
       
Aged
28
Born Masbrough, Rotherham 08/021885. Son of William Shirtcliffe, of 33, Cavendish Road., Holmes, Rotherham; Husband of Edith Shirtcliffe, of 52, Edge Road., Thornhill Edge, Dewsbury, Yorks. He had enlisted in the Royal Navy on 19/04/1900. He worked as a sailor and as a blast furnaceman. He enlisted in the Household cavalry at West Melt […]
VICARAGE, WITHERNWICK, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
21/11/1914
       
Aged
31
BORN HULL 1884. SON OF REVEREND, WALTER RADFORD WELCH & ELIZABETH WELCH. LIVED EAST MOLESLEY, VICARAGE. HIS WIFE MARGARET, LIVED AT CHART HOUSE, ASH VALE, ALDERSHOT (WAR PENSION RECORDS). HE WAS A FORMER HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOLBOY AND REGULAR CAVALRY SOLDIER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SENT TO FRANCE WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, […]