3rd Battalion
04.08.1914 Stationed at Chelsea Barracks, London as part of the 4th (Guards) Brigade of the 2nd Division.
13.08.1914 Mobilised for war and landed in Havre as part of the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1914
The Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, First Battle of Ypres.
1915
Winter Operations 1914-15, The Battle of Festubert, The Battle of Loos.
20.08.1915 Transferred to the 1st (Guards) Brigade of the same Division.
1916
The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of the Ancre, Operations on the Ancre.
1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Arleux, The Second Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Cambrai.
08.02.1918 Transferred to the 4th (Guards) Brigade of the 31st Division.
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.
20.05.1918 Transferred to G.H.Q. Reserve.
11.11.1918 Ended the war in France, Criel Plage S.W. of Le Treport.
Regiment: Coldstream Guards 3rd Battalion
BORN HULL. SCULCOATES. ENLISTED HULL. SEVERAL POSSIBLE CENSUS MATCHES. HE SERVED WITH THE 3RD COLDSTREAM GUARDS. WAS REPORTED MISSING, THEN KILLED,AT THE SOMME, ON 26/09/1916. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, CHRISTINA RICHARDSON, AT 2 ST GILES CROFT, BEVERLEY (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL […]
5, Wenlock Place, Church Street, Filey, North Yorkshire
Died on
09/05/1916
Aged
23
Born Filey, North Yorkshire, 1892. Son of Thomas Skelton (1860-1920) and Mary Crimlis (1861-1927), of 5, Wenlock Place, Church St., Filey, Yorkshire. He had three brothers and four sisters. Employed as a Blacksmith's Apprentice, living at 6 Ebenezer Terrace Queen St Filey, (1911 Census). He enlisted at Hull. Served with the 3rdColdstr […]
Lund, Beverley, East Yorkshire. UK
Died on
15/09/1916
Aged
21
Born Middleton-on-the-wolds, Yorkshire, 1895. Son of Henry William Snaith (1848-1904) and Sarah Snaith. He had three brothers and three sister. Employed as a Gardener ( Domestic ) Enlisted Driffield. Served with the 3rd Coldstream Guards, Killed in action, on 15/09/1916, aged 21. Commemorated at Thiepval. His army effects were left t […]
21 LAUNDRESS LANE, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
01/12/1917
Aged
24
BORN BEVERLEY, 1893. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SON OF THOMAS STRAKER (1850-1913) AND ELIZA IRELAND (1854-1932). SON OF A BLACKSMITH. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. WAS CAUGHT PILFERING A FRUIT WHAREHOUSE, IN WALKERGATE, BEVERLEY, AGED 12 AND APPEARED IN THE NEWSPAPERS. HE WORKED AS A DRILLER, LIVING WITH HIS FAMILY AT 21 LAUNDRESS LANE, […]
BORN HULL 1885. SON OF JAMES AND SARAH TEESDALE, OF 17 FINKLE STREET, COTTINGHAM. SIBLINGS - ELLEN & DORA & ARTHUR AND SAMUEL. ALBERT MARRIED MARY THERESA IN HULL, 1909. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A GERMAN, WELL KNOWN IN COTTINGHAM AND HULL. THEY LIVED AT 68 RAGLAN STREET, HULL. HE WAS A BRICKLAYER BEFORE THE WAR. HAD TWO CHILDREN T […]
BORN HULL 1884. LIVED CLAPTON, MIDDLESEX. 1911 CENSUS PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER SERVING WITH THE 3RD COLDSTREAM. HULL CONNECTION UNTRACED
Lance Corporal
4 CLYDESDALE AVENUE, BALFOUR STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
14/09/1914
Aged
30
BORN HALSHAM, YORKSHIRE, 1884. HE LIVED IN PRESTON, AND HULL. ELDEST SON OF THEOPHILIUS ALBERT WHATLING (1856-1921) AND WILFREDA STATTERS (1865-1903). SON OF A FARM FOREMAN, FROM SUFFOLK. HE HAD FOUR YOUNGER BROTHERS. HE WORKED AS A FARM HORSEMAN AND AS SHUNTER FOR THE LOCAL RAILWAY COMPANY. HE MARRIED SARAH ANN CRUISE (1875-1951) AT BAY […]
BORN HULL 1895. SON OF JOHN PHILIP WITHERS & CLEMENTIA HARROW WITHERS ABOVE. DOCK TROLLEY DRIVER. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 20/05/1915, AT RUE DE L'EPINETTE, AGED 20. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 19/06/1915. * HE IS ALSO LISTED IN THE DE RUGV […]
