9th (service) Battalion
Sept 1914 Formed at Halifax as part of the Second New Army (K2) and then moved to Wareham to join the 52nd Brigade of the 17th Division, and then moved to Bovington and later Wimborne.
June 1915 Moved to Hursley, Hampshire.
15.07.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and engaged in various actions on the Western front including;
1915
Holding front lines in southern area of Ypres salient.
1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Delville Wood.
1917
The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Second Battle of the Scarpe, The Capture of Roeux, The First Battle of Passchendaele, The Second Battle of Passchendaele.
1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Amiens, The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Havrincourt, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of Cambrai 1918, The pursuit to the Selle, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre.
11.11.1918 Ended the war south of Maubeuge, France.
Regiment: Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment 9th Battalion
BORN HULL 1895. SON OF GEORGE EDWIN BUCK, OLD RISE, SKIRLAUGH, HULL. HE LIVED SKIRLAUGH. HE ENLISTED IN ILKLEY. HE SERVED AS PRIVATE, 12049. WEST RIDING REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 19/12/1915, AGED 20. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HE IS RECORDED ON A PLAQUE AT ALL SAINTS CHURCH, HULL ROA […]
13 ANNS TERRACE, PARROTT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
25/04/1917
Aged
24
BORN HALIFAX 1893. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF ARTHUR DEAN (1873-1947) & SARAH ANN DEAN (1872-1928), OF GREENMOUNT TERRACE, HALIFAX. BROTHER TO ARTHUR AND FOUR SISTERS. HE MARRIED IN HALIFAX, ON 20/07/1914. HUSBAND OF VERA JESSIE SHINNS, OF 13 ANNS TERRACE, PARROTT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). THEY HAD TWO SONS, AND TWIN BOYS WHO BOTH DIED […]
Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 1878. ONLY SON OF GEORGE (PUBLICAN) & EVELINA JACKSON. THEY LIVED WITH HIS SISTER MARIA, AT THE WHITE HART PUB, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER. MARRIED IN 1906. HE ALSO LIVED AT 14 VICTOR STREET AND IN HUDDERSFIELD WITH HIS WIFE ALICE ANN LANE, WHO RETURNED TO 13 ROWLANDS TERRACE, ST PAUL STREET, HULL. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN […]
BORN HULL 1895. SON OF HENRY & ADA MANNING ABOVE & THEN 60 THWAITES, KEIGHLEY, YORKS. ENLISTED HALIFAX. KILLED IN ACTION.
BORN HULL 01/12/1899. SON OF FREDERICK MCWILLIAM (1865-1921) AND KATE BAILLIE (1874-1950) AT THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. A CLERK. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS, AND FOUR SISTERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 02/03/1916, AGED 18 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 32 INCH CHEST, "POOR" PHYSIQUE, BLUE EYES, AND BROWN HAIR. HAD SCABIES […]
BORN GRIMSBY 1876. HUSBAND OF MARIA SMALES, AT 38 , BEAUMONT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). HE MARRIED MARIA WEBSTER (1879-1947), AT HULL, IN JANUARY 1918. PRIOR TO THIS, HE LIVED WITH HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, MARY JANE SMALES, AT 1, STUDLEY STREET, HULL, WHERE HE WORKED AS A GROOM (1901 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED AT HULL. FORMERLY […]
15 Ivy Grove, Pulman Street, Hull
Died on
26/08/1918
Aged
30
Born Hull 1888, Son of James William Sunderland (1858-1942) and Lilian Grubb (1866-1937), of 15 Ivy Grove, Pulman Street, Hull (1911 Census). Son of a railway Goods Guard. He had two brothers and two sisters. Worked as a Railways Clerk and lived at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. He enlisted at Halifax. Served in the 9th West Riding Regiment. […]
