Regiment: Gordon Highlanders 1st Battalion

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF GEORGE THOMAS BARNETT (1859-1933) AND CATHERINE BARNETT (1862-1921), OF 18 COURTNEY STREET, HULL AND 13 ETHEL GROVE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL, . ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. SON OF AN OIL PRESSMAN. EMPLOYED AS A PAVIER, BY THE BON ACCORD OIL MILLS, HULL. HE LIVED AT 8 HERBERT AVENUE, BALFOUR STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (H […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1890. SON OF THOMAS AND MATILDA GAMSBY. EMPLOYED AS A SAWMILL LABOURER. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1905. HIS WIFE MARY JANE MIDDLETON (1881-1947) AND THREE CHILDREN LIVED AT 5 BRIGHTON TERRACE, KENT STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL.  SERVED AS PRIVATE, S/10472, 1ST BN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF MICHAEL & ANNIE GORDON, OF 13 MARKET PLACE, HULL AND THIS ADDRESS. BROTHERS PERCIVAL & HENRY. A TOBACONIST. HE ENLISTED IN EDINBURGH. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, WITH THE 1ST GORDON HIGHLANDERS. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT THE SOMME, ON 26/07/1916, AGED 30. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL. […]

BORN GRIMSBY 1898. SON OF FRANK SAUNDERS & EDITH GREENLEES, OF THE THREE CROWNS LODGING HOUSE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. HE ALSO LIVED AT 24 CROWLE STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL (HDM) ADDRESS, 07/10/1915). HE ENLISTED IN ABERDEEN, AT THE AGE OF 17. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 03/02/1915. SERVED WITH THE 1ST GORDON HIGHLANDERS. ALF […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF THE LATE THOMAS HEWICK AND ALICE ANN HEWICK, OF THIS ADDRESS (1911 CENSUS). BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A PAWN BROKER'S ASSISTANT AND AT SEA WITH THE WILSON LINE. HE LIVED WITH HIS SISTER AT 6 SANDRINGHAM VILLAS, WELLS STREET, OFF SANDRINGHAM STREET. HE ENLISTED IN ABERDEEN AT THE START OF THE WAR, WITH HIS TWIN BR […]

BORN LICHFIELD 1884. EX RECKITT'S. WIFE EMMA THOMPSON & GEORGE & DOT ABOVE. NB; 8 KIMBERLEY ST, 5 JOHNSONS PLACE & - 9 DEIGHTON PLACE, PORTER STREET.