Regiment: Royal Engineers Inland Water Transport Company

BORN HULL 1889. WIFE MARY (CHAPMAN) ABOVE (DIED 12/2/67). SON OF ELIZABETH ANN (HANCOCK) AND GEORGE FOSTER BRITTON, 4541, RNR- 10 WELBECK AVE, FLINTON ST. CWGC ADDRESS.

BORN LEEDS 1891. BURIED IN HULL. RESIDED SWANSEA. ENLISTED CORNWALL. DIED AT HOME.

BORN PRESTON, LANCASHIRE, 1888. SON OF RICHARD AND MARY ANN COOK, AT 48, GRANTHAM STREET, SALFORD, MANCHESTER, AND 14, SUSANNAH TERRACE, LEE SMITH STREET, HULL. HE RESIDED IN SALFORD AND HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A PIONEER, WITH THE INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, ROYAL ENGINEERS. HE DIED ON 19/10/1918, AGED 29, AT MILL LANE MILITARY […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF GEORGE DIXON (1845-1924) AND MARGARET ANN SIMPSON (1846-1918). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. HE MARRIED ELIZABETH ANNIE BEADLE, IN 1909, AGED 21 HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN LIVED AT 13 TRENT AVENUE, SCARBOROUGH STREET, HULL. (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A COAL HEAVER ON HULL DOCKS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES T […]

BORN HULL 1876. SON OF WILLIAM AND EMILY FACEY, AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS A BLACKSMITH. MARRIED IN 1898. HIS WIFE ELIZA DUNN AND THEIR SEVEN CHILDREN LIVED AT 2 TEEL TERRACE, WALKER STREET, 1 JOHNS TERRACE, PARROTT STREET, 19 EDGAR STREET, AND 5 PRINCESS ROAD, HULL. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 9 INCHES TALL, 166 LBS WEIGHT AND 39 INCH CHEST, AND ' […]

BORN RAMSGATE, KENT, 1892. SON OF GEORGE PIDDOCK GOLDSMITH AND JANE GOLDSMITH. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. WORKED AS A SEAMAN WHO STUDIED AT HULL CITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE. HE ENLISTED AT CANTERBURY, ON 19/01/1917, AGED 25 YEARS AND 330 DAYS. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 02/02/1917. SERVED AS SAPPER, WR/505153, ROYAL ENGINEERS, INLAND W […]

Born Liverpool, 1896. Son of Thomas and Sarah Iredale, of 1 Wilton Road Rock Ferry Cheshire. Worked as a Solicitor's Clerk. Enlisted at Beverley. Lived in Hull. Married Lavinia Blackett, at Hull, in 1916. They lived at 7, Princes Garden, Goddard Avenue, Hull (probate address) Served as Pioneer, WR/336571, Royal Engineers, Inland Waterw […]

BORN HULL 12/09/1874. SON OF ALFRED JACKSON & ELIZA MARRIOT, OF 3 HENRY'S BUILDINGS, GREAT PASSAGE STREET, HULL. A DOCK LABOURER. WORKED FOR THE STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, HULL. HUSBAND OF THE LATE FRANCES (ADWICK). FATHER OF FOUR CHILDREN. THEY LIVED AT 3 WILLOW TERRACE, REGENT STREET, HULL. HIS BROTHERS ERE WALTER & JAMES E JA […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF THOMAS KEMP (1847- 1905) & EMMA LOUISA LAMB (1866-1929), OF 9, RAIKES STREET, HULL. ONE OF FOUR SONS.  HE MARRIED ELLEN LANGAN, IN 1908. A FORMER CORN LABOURER, LIVING AT 23, WHITBY STREET, HULL. (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A SAPPER IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS WATER INLAND TRANSPORT COMPANY. HE AC […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF CHARLES HENRY & MARY JANE LOCKWOOD, OF 167 WINCOLMLEE, HULL. A FISH SPLITTER. SERVED IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. DIED OF BRONCHO PNEUMONIA, ON 01/03/1919, AGED 25. HIS WAR PENSION WAS LEFT TO HIS SISTER, FRANCES THORNES, AT 1 BRIGHT'S GROVE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) HE IS BURIED IN HULL. […]

BORN HULL, 1882. SON OF CHARLES MARSHALL (1835-1916) AND SARAH JONES VINCENT (1838-1919). ONE OF TWELVE CHILDREN. HE MARRIED, CLARA ELIZABETH WRIGHTSON, AT ST PETERS CHURCH, BARTON, ON 10/03/1902, AGED 19. THEY HAD FOUR SONS AND A DAUGHTER. WORKED AS AN INSURANCE AGENT AND SUP INTENDENT, LIVING AT 251, DURHAM ROAD, GRIMSBY (1911 CENSUS) […]

BORN HULL 22/09/1888. SON OF ARTHUR MILSON (1862-1907) & ISABELLA KERSTEIN (1865-1906), OF 87 FRANCIS STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE MARRIED IN HULL, APRIL 1910. HIS WIFE, EVA LILIAN CONYERS (1888-1955) AND THEIR TWO SONS, LIVED AT 12 BRUNSWICK TERRACE, BRUNSWICK STREET, HULL AND 8 EDWIN'S TERRACE, BEAN […]

BORN THORNE 1873. WIFE FRANCES (CHESTER) OLIVER & DAUGHTER FRANCES ABOVE. ARMY ADDRESS. SON OF DRURY OLIVER AND SARAH JANE HATFIELD.

Born Hull, 13/02/1885. Son of Richard Walter Powell (1862-1918) and Elizabeth Missin (1866-1885). On of eight children. A sailor and Trawler Fisherman. He also worked as a tugman for the North Eastern railways. Described as 5 foot, 2.5 inches tall, 33-35 inch chest, dark complexion, grey eyes, dark hair. He married Louisa Keable (188 […]

BORN HULL 14/11/1892. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM ROBINSON (1861-1930) & ISABELLA (BELL) KIDD (1871-1923), OF 3 JOHNS TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL, 39, BEETON STREET, HULL AND 14, CHARLOTTE TERRACE, BEETON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A LABOURER. HE MARRIED ETHEL DAVISON IN 1914 WHEN WAR BEGAN. THEY LIVED AT 20 NAPOLEON AVENUE, KEN […]

BORN KIRKWALL, ORKNEYS, SCOTLAND, 1898. SON OF MARY SHEPHERD (FORMERLY SINCLAIR) AND THE LATE JAMES SINCLAIR, OF THIS CWGC ADDRESS. WORKED AS A BAKER AT 47 LIME STREET, HULL. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. DIED OF PHEUMONIA. HE IS BURIED AT LES BARAQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, SANGATTE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS A […]

BORN HULL 1885. A NORTHEASTERN RAILWAYS, DOCKSIDE LABOURER. MARRIED 31/08/1907. HUSBAND OF ANNIE CODLING AND FOUR CHILDREN. LIVED AT 2 MILL YARD, SALTHOUSE LANE, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 10/12/1915, AT THE AGE OF 30. HE DIED OF INFLUENZA, ON THE 15/11/1918, JUST AFTER WAR ENDED. BURIED IN A CWGC GRAVE AT HULL.WESTERN CE […]

BORN HULL 1898. ENLISTED HULL. AKA 'EDDIE'. ELDEST SON OF JOHN HENRY & ANNIE GRACE STEEL, OF 34 THORESBY STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. SON OF A HULL SEAMAN/ BROTHER TO NORMAN AND BERNARD. GRANDSON OF CAPTAIN AND MRS J HIGGINS, OF 15 PENDRILL STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. HE SERVED AS A SERGEANT, IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. A RESPONSIBLE […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1886. SON OF JAMES MATHEW & EMMA (BOWSER). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. MARRIED ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH, HULL ON 29/09/1912. WIFE EMILY BILLANY FORMERLY WELBOURN AND DAUGHTER MARY LIVED AT 29 ECCLES STREET, COTTINGHAM AND THIS CWGC ADDRESS. A SOLICITOR'S CLERK & RAILWAY LEDGERMAN. ENLISTED HULL 10/12/1915.SERVED IN FRANCE AS Q […]

BORN HULL. LIVED SACREMENTO, USA. HE ENLISTED IN NEW YORK, USA. SERVED AS A SAPPER, IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS, INLAND WATERS AND DOCKS. DIED DURING AN AN AIR RAID, ON CHATHAM, KENT. BURIED IN MARGATE CEMETERY, THANET, KENT. AWARDED THE BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND VICTORY MEDAL.