Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery 146th (3rd Hull) Heavy Battery

BORN HOLLYM, YORKSHIRE, 1897. YOUNGEST SON OF JANE ELIZABETH & THE LATE WILLIAM RICHARD BILTON, OF 138 MERSEY STREET, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN.HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, OLD TOWN GRIMSBY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A BOMBARDIER, IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR SIXTEEN MONTHS […]

BORN HULL 1886. ELDEST SON OF JOHN HENRY FOX (1858-1943), AND ANNIE MARIE FOX OF 42, LOUIS STREET, HULL. SON OF A GLASS WINDOW MANUFACTURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, CYRIL AND CLIFFORD. HE WAS EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. WORKED AS A COAL EXPORTER MANAGER (1911 CENSUS). MARRIED IN 1913. HUSBAND OF ETHEL MAY (1892-1985), AT 42, LOUIS S […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF JOSEPH HARRISON & SELINA WHEELDON AT 41 FRANKLIN STREET, HULL. A FORMER GROCER'S ASSISTANT. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE MANANGED THE HESSLE ROAD, CO-OPERATIVE BRANCH. HE MARRIED AT HULL IN 1912. HUSBAND OF HARRIET PRATT (1888-1941), AT 29, RUSTENBURG STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AS PRIVAT […]

BORN WINTERTON, LINCOLN 1892. SON OF FREDERICK HILL & ANNE TOMASON HILL, OF 7 LINCOLN STREET, HULL. HIS WIFE, LILLIAN HILL, LIVED AT 38 ESTCOURT STREET, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS), AND 102 NEWBRIDGE ROAD, HULL (HDM ADDRESS, 01/09/1917). BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS EMPLOYED ON THE HULL TRAM SERVICE. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN TH […]

BORN HULL 18/11/1881. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLTBY (1856-1938) & ELIZABETH TAYLOR HOLTBY (1857-1883), OF 13, CROWN PLACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED AGNES GOBY, AT HULL, IN OCTOBER 1907. THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, AGNES, AND LIVED AT 41 LEE SMITH STREET (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY FROM 11/01/1898. […]

BORN CURRY, COUNTY SLIGO 1881. SON OF PATRICK KERINS (1829-1904) AND CATHERINE ROGERS (1842-1923). ON OF TEN CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED & LIVED IN HULL. HE MARRIED BRIDGET DUNN (1879-1940), AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN JULY 1906. HIS WIFE BRIDGET, TWO SONS AND DAUGHTER, LIVED AT 11 ST PAULS CRESCENT, ST MARKS STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WA […]

Born Goxhill Marsh, Lincolnshire, 1897. Son of Sarah Annie Kirk, of Ing's Lane, Barton-on-Humber, Lincs. (CWGC address) He enlisted in Hull. Served as a Gunner, in the Royal Garrison Artillery 146th Heavy Battery. Killed in action, on 25/09/1917 aged 20. Buried in Belgium. His grave reads, LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE LIVETH FOR EVER

BORN BURFORD, OXFORD, 1890. ELDEST SON OF FRANK LONGSHAW (1866-1935) & LAURA SMITH (BORN 1866), OF 8 MAY TREE AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, FLORENCE MARY LONGSHAW (1892-1959). AN ASSISTANT SCHOOL TEACHER. HE MARRIED ELSIE BALDING, AT HULL, IN 1915. HIS WIFE ELSIE LIVED AT 9 RIPON T […]

Born Hutton Cranswick, Yorkshire, 1879. Son of Johnson and Sarah Marson. Both parents deceased. He had one brother, Andrew, at 7, Claremont Avenue, Balfour Street, Hull and one sister, Ruth at 47 Blake Street, Brunswick Avenue, Hull. Married at Hull, on 25 Dec 1900. Husband of Annie Elizabeth of 17, Durham Grove, Northumberland Avenue, […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF ALFRED & JANE OWEN, OF 43 BRUNSWICK AVENUE, HULL. EDUCATED AT CLIFTON STREET SCHOOL AND HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HE WORKED FOR THE STATE INSURANCE COMPANY AND LATER MANAGED HIS FATHER'S GROCERY BUSINESS IN BRUNSWICK AVENUE. HE JOINED THE FORCES IN 1915. HE HAD JUST REURNED TO FLANDERS AFTER 10 DAYS LEAVE WHEN HIS […]

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF ALFRED EDWIN PRICE & HARRIET PRICE, OF 11 TALBOT STREET, HULL . HUSBAND OF MAY PRICE, OF 22 COLERIDGE STREET, WESTCOTT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE WAS A HULL POST OFFICE WORKER, JOINING AS A TELEGRAM LAD AT THE AGE OF 13 AND WAS HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM. HE WAS ALSO WELL KNOWN IN SWIMMING CIRCLES BEING AN INSTRU […]

BORN SUNK ISLAND 1885. SON OF CHARLES & AGNES M STABLER, OF SUNK ISLAND, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A FARM LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY,  4442, 146Th HULL HEAVY BRIGADE, R.G.A. TRANSFERRED AS A GUNNER, WITH 146TH ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/05/1917, AGED 32. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HI […]

Gunner, Wilfred Thacker served in the Royal Garrison Artillery. Wilfred was born in Kirk Ella on the 2nd April 1895. Son Charles and Jane Thacker. He enlisted on 28th October 1915 and was killed in action, on the 25th September 1917. He formally served with the 146th Hull Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Regiment. In 1911, Wilfred […]

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF CLARA PLEDGE & THE LATE GEORGE WHITTAKER. A HULL POSTMAN, WHO RESIDED WITH HIS MOTHER AT 32 GOULTON STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN OCTOBER 1915. SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/07/1917, AGED 36. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 24/08/1917. *

BORN HULL. ENLISTED HULL. A FORMER GUNNER, 4606, 146TH HULL HEAVY BATTERY. PROMOTED SERGEANT. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 27/05/1917, AGED 24, AT THE 108TH FIELD AMBULANCE HOSPITAL. HE MARRIED EDITH JACKMAN, AT BRIDLINGTON, IN 1916. LEFT HIS ARMY EFFECTS TO HIS WIDOW EDITH BERWICK  (BORN 03/07/1893), WHO REMARRIED AND MOVED TO 5 WEST END COTTAGE […]

BORN HULL 1887. ONLY SON OF JOHN WILLIAM WRAY (1863-1909) AND SARAH JANE WRAY, OF 9 ABBEY CRESCENT, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. A HULL POSTEMAN AND HULL POST OFFICE WORKER FOR 18 YEARS. MARRIED AT ST MARY'S SCULCOATES, ON 18/9/1913. HIS WIFE SARAH ELIZABETH THOMPSON, LIVED AT 27, VERMONT CRESCENT, WORTHING STREET, HULL […]