BORN HULL 1878. LIVED HULL. ENLISTED MANCHESTER. A PROFFESIONAL SOLDIER AND RETIRED RESERVIST WHEN WAR BEGAN. HE SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE 2ND HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 14/08/1914, WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. KILLED AT LOOS, ON 25/09/1915, AGED 37. HIS ARMY EFFECTS, WERE LEFT TO HIS NEXT OF KIN, MISS GLADY […]
19 JEWELLERY GOLD SHOP, LOWGATE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
16/06/1916
Aged
28
BORN HULL 1888. ELDEST SON OF ROBERT & JESSIE ELIZA WHO LIVED ABOVE WITH 8 CHILDREN IN 1901 & LATER DAVENPORT AVENUE, HESSLE. SON OF A GOLDSMITH. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE SERVED AS PRIVATE, 22292, 2ND HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/06/1916, AGED 28. HE LEFT £51 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER. HIS NAME IS ON HYMERS COLL […]
BORN HULL 27/06/1896. SON OF JOSEPH HENRY & ADA M SOLLITT. SERVED IN THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 04/08/1916, AGED 20. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DETAILS ARE LISTED IN SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS AS BORN IN HULL. ENLISTED YORK. (1901 CENSUS ADDRESS)
76, Queens Road, Hull
Died on
04/08/1916
Aged
25
Born Southend Essex, 1891. Son of Asher Woods and Lydia Mary Ann Woods, of 76, Queens Road, Hull and 57, Park Road, Hull (War Pension addresses). He was a Horse Driver. He enlisted at Southend. Formerly 45252, R.G.A. Transferred to the 2nd Highland Light Infantry. Died of wounds, on 04/08/1916, aged 25. His army effects were left to hi […]
