Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery 124th Hull Heavy Battery

BORN HULL 1877. SON OF MARY ANN BLANCHARD, OF STONEFERRY, HULL. AN OIL REFINER. HE JOINED THE TERRITORIALS IN 1908, SERVING AS A GUNNER IN THE EAST RIDING ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. HE MARRIED PRUDENCE ROSE, AT ST MARKS, HULL, ON 08/01/1903. HIS WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN, LIVED AT 8 PENZANCE GARDENS, CORNWALL STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE […]

BORN HUNTON, YORKS. ENLISTED HULL. LIVED PRESTON, HULL. EX RGA, 2ND HULL HEAVY BATTERY. TRANSFERRED AS GUNNER, 177, ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 17/11/1916. his death was reported in the hull daily mail, on 02/12/1916. * HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ALL SAINTS CHURCH MEMORIAL, PRESTON. BURIED AT DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ

BORN HULL 1885. ONLY SON OF EDWARD & JENNETTA EVANS, OF 32 CLIFTON TERRACE, HULL, 13 ELGIN TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL AND CAMPBELL STREET, HULL. A WORKS FOREMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 150 LBS WEIGHT, 36-38 INCH CHEST. HE MARRIED AT HULL, ON 25/07/1911. HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE MARIA EVANS (1886-1954) LIVED AT 83 REGENT STREE […]

Joined the Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, in 1914. Went out to German East Africa, in 1915. Died of wounds in the Hull Royal Infirmary, on 20/05/1920. He resided at Adelaide Street, Hull and before the war was connected with the fishing industry. Hull Daily Mail 28 June 1920. *

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF ROBERT AND JANE KIRK, OF 72 MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, RUSSELL STREET, HULL. SON OF A SLATER HUSBAND OF ADA BELL KIRK 91882-1923), OF 5 MIDLAND STREET, HULL & 37 PRINCES ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. FORMERLY, 245, 2ND HULL HEAVY BATTERY. TRANSFERRED AS A GUNNER, IN THE 124 […]

BORN DALMANY, SCOTLAND, 1887. SON OF MRS LOWSON, OF WELTON. WORKED AS A HULL BARMEN, LIVING AT THE QUEEN STREET, HOTEL (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. SERVING AS GUNNER, 140, 2ND HULL HEAVY BATTERY, AND MOVING TO THE 124TH BATTERY, RGA. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR SIXTEEN MONTHS, WITHOUT LEAVE. KILLED IN ACTION […]

BORN HULL 1892. LIVED AT 13 PARK TERRACE, SCULCOATES IN 1901. MARRIED WITH THREE CHILDREN AT THIS ADDRESS WHEN KILLED. HE IS LISTED ON THE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR AS DIED OF WOUNDS.(HDM 19/12/16). EX HULL &  BARNSLEY RAILWAY WORKER. HIS DEATH WAS ALSO REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 29TH NOVEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *

DIED OF FLU IN GRAVESEND, KENT ON WAY HIS WAY TO BE DISCHARGED. BODY RETURNED BY TRAIN & BURIED AT HOME. SON OF GEORGE W SILBURN ABOVE. ENLISTED HULL 26/12/14. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS A SHEPHERD.

Son of Isaac and Caroline Spittlehouse, of East Halton, Lincs; husband of Harriet Ann Spittlehouse, of Anlaby Park Rd., Hessle, Yorks. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH.

BORN HULL JUNE 1893. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY TUNE & SARAH HANNAH MASON AT 45 SPYVEE STREET (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. HE WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED AT HEDON ROAD RACE COURSE, ON 24/08/1915, AGED 22. BURIED HEDON ROAD CEMETERY. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER. HE LEFT A BROTH […]

BORN HULL 03/09/1889. YOUNGEST SON OF MARGARET HANNAH PARKER (1845-1929) & LATE JAMES WILSON (1841-1913), OF 115 GRAFTON STREET, HULL. SON OF A PROVISION'S DEALER. HE HAD SEVEN BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A  CLERK IN AN OIL MERCHANT COMPANY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 16/11/1914, AGED 25 AND 2 MONTHS. HE WAS OV […]

Born Hull 1898. Son of Frederick (1872-1925) and Frances Elizabeth Wilson (1871-1965), of 114, Holderness Road, Hull (War Pension address). Son of a Furniture Dealer. He had one brother, Fred. He enlisted at Hull, on 07/09/1914, He was 17, but gave his age as 19. Served with the Hull Heavy Battery, in East Africa. Discharged and awarded […]