Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment 8th Battalion

BORN HULL 14/11/1894. SON OF CHRISTINA & THE LATE JOHN PATTISON, OF 2 LORRAINE STREET, STONEFERRY. ENLISTED HULL 26/01/1916. SERVED IN IRELAND IN APRIL 1916. POSTED TO FRANCE SEPTEMBER 1916, WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED AND INVALIDED TO ENGLAND. HE ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED IN THE BATHURST BASIN, BRISTOL, ON 7/02/1918. HE WAS EXPECTING TO BE DISC […]

BORN BRISTOL 1880. SON OF JOHN COLSTON RICHER (1841-1888) & BRIDGET RICHER. BOARDED AT THIS 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS. DOCK LABOURER. ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO THE 8TH GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 18/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/11/1915. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, BRIDGET ADAMS AND SISTER, MARY.

Born Barton-upon-Humber, 1898. Son of George and Annie Robinson, of 1, South View, St Georges Road, Hull (War Pension Address). Enlisted at Barton-upon-Humber. Formerly 1793, Lincolnshire Regiment. Transferred to the 8th Gloucestershire Regiment. Killed in action, on 18/11/1916, aged 18. Commemorated on the Thiepval memorial, France. H […]

BORN BARTON 1898. YOUNGEST SON OF MR G ROBINSON (FORMERLY OF BARTON) ABOVE ADDRESS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 8TH FEBRUARY 1917 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *

BORN NEW HOLLAND, LINCS, 1895. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF GEORGE PERCY & ANN ELLEN THORNDYKE. HE IS BURIED AT STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE, SEINE-MARITIME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY COME UNTO ME AND REST"