Regiment: Dorset Regiment 6th Battalion

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF JOSEPH BARON AND SARAH ANN JACKSON, OF 18 MAY AVENUE, BEDFORD STREET, HULL. HE WAS MARRIED TO GERTRUDE BARON & FATHER TO CYRIL & WILLIAM. THEY LIVED AT 16 YORK TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND 1 HOWARD STREET, CHAPMAN STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A LABOURER FOR THE HULL OIL MANAUFACTURING COMPANY, […]

Born Beverley, 1895. Son of William and Sarah Burr, of 15, Wood Lane, Beverley, Yorks. His father was a groom in the Beverley racing stables. He worked as a farm servant and stable boy. Enlisted at Hull, December 1914. Served with the East Riding Yeomanry. Later 1/4th & 8th E.Yorks, 6th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment. Killed in acti […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF FRED & CARLA GIBSON OF 107 LINNAEUS STREET, HULL (1918 ABSENT VOTERS) AND 25 , DUESBURY STREET, HULL. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL'S HYMER COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL. HE IS BURIED AT HARPONVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR SON HE DIED F […]

Born Bedale, Yorkshire, 25th August 1898. Son of George Edward Hunter (1856-1916) and  Alice Ann Airey, of Hunton, Bedale, Yorkshire (war Pension address). Son of a Road Contractor. He had three brothers and five sisters. He enlisted in Hull. Formerly 205645, East Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to the 6th Dorset Regiment. Killed in act […]

BORN WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND 1898. YOUNGEST SON OF GEORGE JEFFERSON (1851-1934) & ELIZABETH McDOWELL (1858-1933), OF 6, NERO TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF AN IRON WORKER. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 1455, 13TH EYR. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. TRANSFERRED AS CO […]