1/4th Battalion Territorial Force
04.08.1914 Stationed at Hull as part of the York & Durham Brigade of the Northumbrian Division and then moved to South Holderness and then on to Darlington and then Newcastle.
07.04.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne where the formation became the 150th Brigade of the 50th Division which engaged in various action on the Western Front including;
During 1915
The Battle of St Julien, The Battle of Frezenburg Ridge, The Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge.
During 1916
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of the Transloy Ridges.
During 1917
The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe, The Capture of Wancourt Ridge, The Second Battle of Passchendaele.
During 1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Actions at the Somme Crossings, The Battle of Rosieres, The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Battle of the Aisne.
15.07.1918 Reduced to cadre and moved to defend the Lines of Communication in Dieppe.
16.08.1918 Transferred to the 116th Brigade of the 39th Division.
07.11.1918 Demobilised at Cucq.
BORN HULL 1899. SON OF MARY AND WALTER SLEIGHT, OF 22 SOUTHCOATES LANE, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) & LATER, 88, GREAT THORNTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THIRD OF SIX CHILDREN. SON OF A HEAVY MOTOR CAR DRIVER. WORKED AS AN APPRENTICE BRASS MOULDER, FOR MESSRS, STONE, & WILKINSON, HULL MARKET PLACE. ENLISTED […]
BORN HULL 1896. SON OF THOMAS SMELT & ANNIE ELIZABETH LOFT OF 99, HODGSON STREET, HULL AND 12, JAMES STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A SUGAR HOUSE LABOURER. HE SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED ON 10/09/1916, AGED 19. HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE HODGSON STREET MEMORIAL SHRINE (HDM 20/10/1916) HE […]
2nd Lieutenant
BORN DURHAM, 1881. SON OF WILLIAM (1848-1913) & CHARLOTTE SNOWDEN (1849-1912), OF 4 BURTON ROAD, HORNSEA. HE HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE HORNSEA PARISH CHOIR. HE WAS BRANCH CASHIER OF THE HULL SAVINGS BANK AND LIVED AT 182 PARK AVENUE, HULL. MEMBER OF THE HORNSEA PARISH CHOIR. HE ENLISTED AT HULL SEPT 1914. JOINED THE 10TH EAST YORKS […]
1st Lieutenant
BORN CAISTOR, LINCOLNSHIRE, 26/06/1889. SON OF PHILIP HENRY GLANVILLE SOUTHWELL (1861-1909) AND BEATRICE HELEN NOVELLI (1856-1923), OF 93 QUEEN STREET, FILEY, YORKS. HE WAS EDUCATED AT HULL'S HYMER COLLEGE, WHERE HE PLAYED CRICKET, RUGBY AND HOCKEY. HE WAS A FINE FOOTBALLER AND CRICKETER. BEFORE THE WAR HE STUDIED LAW AND WAS A SOLICI […]
BORN ROTHERHAM 1895. JOINED HULL. SON OF HARRY & MARIA E. HULL. EX TAXI DRIVER FOR ELLYARDS, JAMESON STREET, HULL. HE SERVED AS A CORPORAL IN THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS & GAS POISONING, ON 17/06/1916, AGED 21. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 07/07/1916. * HIS BROTHER SERVED IN THE […]
4, FERNDALE AVENUE, EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
26/10/1915
Aged
17
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF THOMAS STATHAM & JANE PINDER, OF 4, FERNDALE AVENUE, EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL,. BROTHERS ROBERT, EDWARD , WILLIAM & LEONARD. HE ENLISTED WITH WILLIAM IN NOVEMBER 1914 UNDERAGE. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED ON 26/10/1915, AGED 17 BURIED AT CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, […]
22 , MORPETH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
10/09/1916
Aged
22
BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF JOHN M & ELLEN STORRY, LIVING AT 249, WINCOLMLEE (1901 CENSUS), 8, DALES TERRACE, PELHAM STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS), , LOMBARD TERRACE. HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) & 22, MORPETH STREET, HULL. HE WAS A SHIP BUILDING LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN […]
BORN CAISTOR 1891. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE CECIL STORRY (1859-1926) & LUCY DIXON STORRY (1862-1950), OF 8, LINDUM PARADE, HEDON ROAD HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 36, COLTMAN STREET, HULL. SON OF A CARGO SUPINTENDENT. ONE OF THREE CHILDREN. HE HAD ONE SISTER ETHEL MARY STORRY AND ONE BROTHER, HERBERT. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. […]
84 , REGENT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
25/03/1917
Aged
25
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF LUKE BATEMAN & MARY ELLEN STORY, LIVING AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. ENLISTED HULL. DIED AT HOME, ON 25/03/1917, AGED 25. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS MOTHER MARY. BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. LEFT SISTERS CAROLINE, MINNIE, AND EDEN AND BROTHERS, LEONARD AND WALTER STORY. HIS OTHER, BROTHER SGT, ARTHUR STORY, […]
BORN HULL 1893. THIRD SON OF WILLIAM & BETSY SUTTON, TRANBY LANE, ANLABY, HULL. HE WAS AN EX SHIPYARD WORKER AT SEARS IN HESSLE AND JOINED UP AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/10/1916, AGED 23. HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS MOTHER, BETSY SUTTON (BORN 1860), AT TRANBY LANE, ANLA […]
90, WESTBOURNE AVENUE, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Died on
24/04/1915
Aged
41
BORN SURREY 1874. LIVED IN LONDON AND HULL. HIS FATHER HAD FOUGHT THE GERMANS IN THE 1848 SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN WAR AND WAS DECORATED. HE CAME TO HULL FROM DENMARK 36 YEARS AGO AND ALSO A PROMINENT CORN MERCHANT, ON HULL'S HIGH STREET. MAJOR THEILMANN WAS A FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE 4TH EYR TERRITORIAL BATTALION, KNOWN AS THE "HULL RIFLES" AND […]
Sergeant
Sergeant Herbert William Thom, 4905, (1888 - 1916), 1st /4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment Herbert William Thom was born in Hull in 1888, the son of William Edmund Thom (1855-1934) and Fanny Thom Dorsey (1860-1949), who lived in New Road, Hornsea. William Edmund was a self-employed carver and gilder and Fanny was a school mistres […]
17 , SOUTH PARADE, HULL, ANLABY ROAD, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
22/07/1916
Aged
18
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF EDWIN THOMPSON (1847-1929) & CAROLINE ROGERSON (1865-1940), OF 17 SOUTH PARADE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 22/07/1916, AGED 18. COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, TPRES, BELGIUM. HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE SOUTH PARADE STREE […]
Walter's photograph is in the Green's Almanac and listed in the Roll of Honour as being wounded on 22nd January, 1916. He was the nephew of Mrs. H. Finch of Beaver Road Beverley. On his return after being wounded he would have been allocated another regiment: the 14th Leicestershire. Walter received the Silver Badge: known as the " […]
3, RICHMOND COURT, WATERLOO STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
17/06/1916
Aged
18
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF HENRY EDWARD TODD (1865-1933) & MAUD MARY PINDER (1871-1963), OF 3, RICHMOND COURT, WATERLOO STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF AN ACTOR & COMEDIEN. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS. WORKED AS A NEWSBOY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 27/10/1915. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EYR. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 17/06/19 […]
BORN HULL 1896. ELDEST SON OF EDWARD TRIPP (1873-1956) & HANNAH ELIZA ATKINSON (1876-1931), OF 14 LILLIES AVENUE, KENT STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD. SON OF AN ENGINE FITTER. ELDEST OF FIVE CHILDREN. A SAW MILL LABOURER. ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 07/06/1917, AGED 20. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS FATHER EDWARD. HIS WAR […]
1st Lieutenant
BORN HULL 1887. ONLY SON OF PIER VAN OPPEN (1857-1922) & ANNIE HEBBLETHWAITE (1862-1923), OF 83 PEEL STREET, HULL (1901), 16 DOVER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A DUTCH WHOLESALE FRUIT MERCHANT. HE WORKED AS A COAL TRAVELLER AND CASHIER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE TERRITORIALS. PROMOTED TO LIEUTENA […]
2nd Lieutenant
BORN HULL AUGUST 1893. THIRD SON OF JOSEPH VIVIAN (1864-1928) & CLARA SMITH (1865-1932), OF 95, WESTBOURNE AVENUE, HULL. SON OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR AND COMPANY SECRETARY OF THE RED CROSS FISHING FLEET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT BROTHERS. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HE WORKED AS A SALESMAN FOR MESSRS, PICKERING & HALDANE, AT […]
27, LIME TREE AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
11/11/1918
Aged
22
BORN BRIDLINGTON 1896. SON OF GEORGE WALKINGTON (1851-1928) & MARY ANN BINNINGTON (1853-1941), AT 27, LIME TREE AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS FATHER AND THREE ELDER BROTHERS WERE BRICKLAYERS, BUILDING GARDEN VILLAGE. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A OUTFITTING SHOP ASSISTANT (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH TH […]
14 THORNE TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
03/01/1920
Aged
39
BORN SCARBOROUGH, 1881. SON OF WILLIAM WATSON & EMILY BRAITHWAITE, 2 HERBERT'S TERRACE, WASSAND STREET AND 14 THORNE TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL (1918 ABSENT VOTERS AND CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. WORKED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE R […]
