People - Regiment: Essex Regiment 11th Battalion

Johnson, Frederick Herman Oscar

BORN HULL 09/06/1882. SON OF ADOLPH FREDRIK JOHANNSON (1840-1923) AND EMMA MARGARENTHA LUCIA WEBER (1840-1888). HIS FATHER WAS SWEDISH. HIS MOTHER, GERMAN. THEY MARRIED IN HULL IN 1875. WHEN HIS WIFE DIED, HIS FATHER REMARRIED ANOTHER GERMAN, LOUISA SCHROEDER KRAUSE (1861-1837) AT HULL IN 1889 AND HAD EIGHT MORE CHILDREN. THEY LIVED AT 3 ENGLISH … Read more

Gibbins, Richard (Dick)

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF WILLIAM & BRIDGET GIBBINS, OF 67 VICTOR STREET, 1 CARLTON AVENUE, VICTOR STREET (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 17 EDWARDS PLACE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED AGED ONLY 16. SERVED WITH THE 11TH ESSEX REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 01/06/1918, AGD 20. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN … Read more