Regiment: 1/5th East Yorkshire Regiment Cyclists

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF THE LATE ALEXANDER BISHOP (1862-1910) & SARAH MOORE (1867-1915), OF 146, PLANE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). A COMMERCIAL CLERK AND FORMER BLUNDELL'S WORKER. ASSOCIATED WITH ST GEORGES METHODIST CHURCH SINCE BOYHOOD. HIS FATHER AND SISTER LAURA (1893-1913) HAD RECENTLY DIED. HE WAS HIS WIDOWED MOTHER'S ONLY SON. […]

BORN HULL 1897. ENLISTED HULL. HDM SEPT. 1916. SON OF GEORGE THOMAS & BETSY ANN BURTON OF 12, OAKLAND VILLA, REYNOLDSON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR FIELD & CO, HULL MARKET PLACE. HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS A CYCLIST WITH THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/08/1916, AGED […]

BORN BRAMLEY, LEEDS 1886. ELDEST SON OF WALTER & JANE (MELLOR) BUTTERY, OF 143 NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL. A FORMER CLERK FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY. A SUCCESSFUL SPRINTER AND MEMBER OF THE KINGSTON ROWING CLUB AND HULL GYMNASTIC SOCIETY. WORKED FOR THE GOOLE STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY. ENLISTED IN THE ARTIST RIFLES IN 1916. COMMISSIONED […]

BORN HULL 1889. ELDEST SON THOMAS AND JESSIE EDMONDSON, OF, 2 ASTON VILLAS, ETON STREET, HULL. WAS A GROCER'S ASSISTANT. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED AT HOLMPTON. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH APPEAR IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 3RD SEPTEMBER 1915. * HIS WIFE BEATRICE (REAVILL) MOVED TO 57 BRIDLINGTON STREET, HYSON GREEN, NOTTINGHAM WITH THEIR TWO […]

Born 1899. Son of Levi and Lydia Elizabeth Gale, of 2, Glynne Terrace, Dysart Rd., Grantham, Lincs. Buried Hedon Road Cemetery, Hull.

BORN HULL 02/02/1885. Son of John Hamshaw (1857-1936) and Elizabeth Briggs (1860-1901), of Hull and 30 Clifford Street, Hornsea. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, JOSEPH, KILLED IN 1918 AND ONE SISTER, GWENDOLINE (1887-1944). HE WORKED FOR FLOUR MILLS AS A TRAVELLING SALESMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8.5 INCHES TALL, 37-39 INCH CHEST, 137 LBS WEIGHT […]

Born Hull, 1888. Son Alfred Hawkes and Priscilla Symonds (1859-1938). He had one brother, Arthur and four sisters, Emily, Nora, Elsie and Doris Husband of Lucy Hall Hawkes (1886-1953), of 3 Frank's Terrace, Finsbury Street, Hull  (Army address). They had one son, William Harold Hawkes (1909-1981). Employed as a labourer, in the Enginee […]

Born Hull 1895. Son of Dryson Heaton (1865-1929) and Eliza Atkin (1866-1955), of 18, Poplar Street, Hull (War pension address). he had three brothers and three sisters. A Fish & Fruiterer's Errand Boy. Served as Private, 874, 1/5th East Yorkshire Cyclists. Died of Meningitis, at Colchester, on 01/06/1916, aged 21. His army effects w […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY HEPPENSTALL (1873-1944) AND MARY JANE VALE (1873-1910), OF  16 POPLAR AVENUE, POPLAR STREET, HULL, (1911 CENSUS & CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A COOPER AT A LOCAL CHEMICAL WORKS. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE WORKED AS A CHAIR POLISHER. HE SERVED IN THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF TUB […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF HENRY WATSON HUTCHINSON & GERTRUDE BORRILL, OF 15 TRINITY ROAD, BRIDLINGTON, AND 563 , ANLABY ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. EDUCATED AT HYMERS AND WORKED FOR RECKITTS. HE ENLISTED AT HULL AND JOINED THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLES, IN 1915. HE LATER OBTAINED A COMMISSIONED ON 23/05/1918. SERVED AS […]

Born Hull 1891. Son of Thomas & Mary Ann Robinson. Married 1910. Husband of Carrie (Ramsden) at above address. Employed at Blundel and Spence, Hull. He was based at North Thoresby, Lincolnshire, and was killed in an accident whilst riding in the side car of a motor cycle ridden by L/Cpl. Fletcher of the same regiment. A verdict of […]

Born Sutton on Hull, 1896. Drowned at Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, on 16/08/1915, aged 19. His army effects were left to his father, Albert. Served as Private, 894, East Yorkshire Regiment, 5th Bn. Buried at Sutton on Hull: Grave Reference: Cemetery: SUTTON-ON-HULL (ST. JAMES) CHURCHYARD  

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF ALBERT & ALICE SMITH,OF 3 SOMERSET TERRACE, FRANKLIN STREET, HULL. A BLACKSMITH STRIKER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/5TH EYR CYCLING CORPS. STATIONED AT WITHERNSEA. DROWNED SWIMMING, ON 17/07/1915, AGED 24. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 27/07/1915. NO CWGC OR SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS.

BORN HULL 17/09/1894. SCULCOATES. ONLY SON OF FREDERICK THRUSTLE (1862-1949)  & HARRIET ANN CROSS (1861-1947), OF 6, RIPON GROVE, BRUNSWICK AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE SISTER, DORA. WORKED AS A GROCER'S ASSISTANT AT THE HULL CO-OPERATIVE. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED WITH THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE (CYCLIST REGIMENT. ACCIDENT […]

BORN HARPHAM, EAST RIDING IN 1891. SON OF FREDERICK WILLIAM AND ANNIE ULLYOTT, FARMERS IN HARPHAM, DRIFFIELD. EX HULL SOLICITOR. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED A SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (CYCLISTS). KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/08/1918, AGED 27. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HE LEFT £426 IN HIS WILL TO […]