20th (Service) Battalion (1st Tyneside Scottish) & 21st (Service) Battalion (2nd Tyneside Scottish)
14.10.1914 The 20th formed at Newcastle by the Lord Mayor & the City and the 21st formed on 26.09.1914.
Mar 1915 Moved to Alnwick and joined the 102nd Brigade of the 34th Division.
Aug 1915 Moved to Salisbury Plain.
15.08.1915 Taken over by the War Office
Jan 1916 Mobilised for war and landed in France engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, The Battle of Pozieres Ridge.
1917
The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Second Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Arleux, The fighting at Hargicourt, The Third Battles of Ypres.
1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Bailleul, The First Battle for Kemmel Ridge.
03.02.1918 Disbanded in France.
7 ALBERT TERRACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
05/03/1917
Aged
30
BORN HULL 1887. SON OF DAVID JOHN ANDREWS AND AGNES ANDREWS, OF 122 BEAN STREET HULL. A NEWS AGENTS ASSISTANT. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH LIVED AT THE THIS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL AS 13841, EYR. TRANSFERRED TO THE 20TH TYNESIDE SCOTTISH REGIMENT. A LETTER SENT HOME DESCRIBED THAT HE WAS KILLED BY SHRAPNEL AT 6.20AM, ON 05/03/1917. HIS WIDOW […]
BORN STAFFS 1878. SON OF JOHN AND SARAH ANN ATTWOOD, AT 9, PRINGLE STREET, FRINDON COLLIERY, COUNTY DURHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A RAILWAY PORTER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY PRIVATE, 15607, IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS CORPORAL, 38630, IN THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. SERVED IN THE BALKANS, FROM 08/07/1915. KILLED […]
ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE TYNESIDE SCOTTISH, 20TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/04/1917. BURIED AT ROEUX BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 16/06/1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, TOM.
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF THOMAS & LILY ABOVE 1911. MARRIED LENA CHADWICK 1918. ON HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE ROH HDM 5/8/19. ON SPYVEE ST. ROH HDM 28/10/16.
BORN HULL 1890. SON OF GEORGE CAPES (1855-1927) & AUGUSTA SPRING (1855-1930), OF 142, ENGLISH STREET, HULL. A FISH LABOURER, LIKE HIS FATHER. HIS WIFE, JESSIE & DAUGHTER, ANNIE MAIN, BORN 08/03/1912, LIVED AT 136, ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 22836, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. T […]
BORN HULL 1891. ENLISTED HARROGATE. SON OF CATHERINE & HENRY CAWKWELL. BROTHER HERBERT & CHARLIE IN FRANCE. EX NER DOCK LABOURER. HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE WAR MEMORIAL AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID DURING WW2.
BORN HULL 03/12/1889. SON OF CHARLIE COLLINS (1860-1935) & ELLEN JANE FRYER (1861-1945), OF 8, SIDMOUTH STREET. HE LIVED AT 104, CLUMBER STREET (1918 ABSENT MILITARY VOTERS). HE JAD ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A DRAPER'S ASSISTANT. HE ENLISTED BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 22860, EYR. DIED ON 05/06/ […]
29 , FINSBURY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
28/08/1916
Aged
36
BORN FLAMBOROUGH 1880. ELDEST SON OF BENJAMIN & FRANCES ELIZABETH DANBY. HE LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS AT 29 FINSBURY STREET. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS (1911 CENSUS) AND FOR MESSRS. HEWLETT, STONEFERRY. HE HAD YOUNGER SISTERS AND A BROTHER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 3456, 20TH TYNESIDE SCOTS. HE WA […]
1 MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, SOUTH BOULEVARD, HULL, UK
Died on
14/01/1917
Aged
31
Born Hull, 1886. Son of Sarah Ellen Dunn and the late William Thomas Dunn (1856-1892), of 1, Marlborough Terrace, South Boulevard, Hull (war Pension Address). He had two brothers and two sisters. A Printer Compositor and employee of Bromby & Clarkes Printers, of Hull, where he worked for eight years and was well respected. He resided […]
3, TORRINGTON VILLAS, FRANKLIN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
10/12/1916
Aged
36
BORN HULL, 1881. SON OF GEORGE FISHER (AND FANNY GOMERSALL (1857-1944), OF 6, SARAH ANN TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS), 70, DANSOM LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 3, TORRINGTON VILLAS, FRANKLIN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD A TWIN SISTER MAUD AND THREE BROTHERS. EMPLOYED AS A WOOD MAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED W […]
36 ALBION HOUSE, ALLIANCE AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
01/10/1916
Aged
39
BORN HULL 1877. SON OF WALTER & EMILY GARBUTT & 7 CHILDREN OF ALLIANCE AVENUE, HULL. HE ENLISTED AT WELTON. HIS WIFE AGNES LIVED IN WELTON. SERVED WITH THE 20TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 01/10/1916, AGED 39. BURIED AT RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES, NORD, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTI […]
68 , WASSAND STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
05/06/1917
Aged
28
BORN HULL 08/11/1893. SON OF JOHN THOMAS GLENTWORTH (1863-1909) & MABEL JANE NEWTON (1862-1922). HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A RAILWAY PORTER. HE LIVED WITH HIS WIDOWED MOTHER AT 31 CARLTON STREET, HULL AND 68, WASSAND STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 21863, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRAN […]
BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF THOMAS & AMY HALES, OF12 LILLIAN TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR THE WILSON SHIPPING LINE. HIS DEATH WAS ALSO REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 23RD NOVEMBER 1916. HE IS BURIED AT RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES, NORD, FRANCE. NB: HALES LIVING AT […]
BORN HULL, 1895. SON OF WILLIAM AND ANNIE HALL, OF 13, LOWER UNION STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS, LIVING WITH HIS BROTHER WILLIAM AT 114, WALKER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). MARRIED AT HULL IN 1915. HUSBAND OF ADA JOANNAH HALL. THEY LIVED AT 60, JAMES STREET, HULL AND 81, […]
Born Cottingham 1891. Son of James Hans Hanstock and Elizabeth Ann Speck, of 7 Wilberforce Terrace, Providence Row, Hull. One of five children. Brother to Charles and William, Maude and Edith. He was employed as a carter on the railways. He married in 1913. Husband of Ethel Thorp Hanstock, of 46 Sidmouth Street, Hull. He enlisted in Hull […]
BORN SUNK ISLAND, HULL 1887. SON OF WILLIAM & EMMA LOWSLEY, OF 3 FREEHOLD TERRACE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 21976, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST TYNSIDE SCOTTISH. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/04/1917, AGED 30. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER […]
27, Fleetgate, Barton-on-Humber, Lincs
Died on
25/10/1917
Aged
19
Born Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire, 1899. Son of John Lyon (1872-1941) and Bertha Minnie Jacques (1872-1955), of 27, Fleetgate, Barton-on-Humber, Lincs. He worked for the Hull Ideal Boiler Company, National Avue Hull. Enlisted Beverley, served with the 20th Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action, on 25/10/1917, aged 19. Commemora […]
BORN HULL 1887. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM MASSAM (1851-1930) AND ELIZA PURVIS (1856-1925), OF 28 SCARBOROUGH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. EDUCATED AT SCARBOROUGH STREET, SCHOOL. HE WAS AN ASSITANT FOR MESSRS, J. HEWETTON, FISH MERCHANTS (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 22102, […]
BORN BOSTON, LINCS, 1897. SON OF JAMES MIDDLETON (1856-1944) AND EMMA JANE GOODWIN (1860-1890), OF 85 LIME STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 15/11/1915, AGED 22 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 10.5 INCHES TALL, 35.5 INCH CHEST, 137 LBS WEIGHT, DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT. WORE GLASSES. SERVED […]
7 SUNBEAM TERRACE, BURLEIGH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
09/04/1917
Aged
27
BORN HULL 1892. SON OF WILLIAM AND MARY OAKLEY, OF 7, SUNBEAM TERRACE, BURLEIGH STREET, HULL. BROTHER FREDERICK AND SISTERS HILDA AND ALICE. WORKED AS A FIREMAN AND BOARDED AT 3, FERN AVENUE, WATERLOO STREET (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 09/04/1917, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW ELIZA WILKINSON WHO […]
