Regiment: Royal Navy HMS "Defence"

BORN HULL 15/4/1887. SON OF FREDERICK BOOTY OF 30 MERSEY STREET, HULL. HMS Defence and HMS Warrior During the battle of Jutland, HMS Warrior and HMS Defence, attracted by the drifting hull of the crippled SMS Wiesbaden, closed in for the kill, only to blunder right into the gun sights of Hipper´s and Scheer´s oncoming capital ships. Def […]

BORN HULL 23/09/1895. SON OF ARTHUR HENSON (1872-1941) & JANE ANNIE WOOD(1873-1899), OF 1, EASTERN AVENUE, BOURNEMOUTH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A RAILWAY LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. AS A TEENGAER HE WORKED AS AN ERRAND BOY AT A GALSS WAREHOUSE. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 38 INCH CHEST, DAR […]

BORN HULL 08/04/1881. SON OF JAMES & MARY ELIZABETH MELADY, OF 8 HENRY TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL (PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS AN EXPERIENCED SEA MECHANIC AND HAD RECEIVED THE LONG SERVICE & GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL. HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 21ST JUNE 1916 ALONG WITH HIS FIVE OTHER BROTHERS WHO ALSO SERVED. * […]

Born Hornsea, East Yorkshire, 25 Jul 1874. Son of James Myers (1836-1915) and Anne Milner (1841-1920), of Skirlaugh, Yorkshire. He had four brothers and two sisters. A former Gardener. He enlisted in the Royal Navy, on 23 Sep 1889. Described as 5 foot, 6 inches tall, light brown hair, blue eyes, tattoos on both arms. Lived in Australia […]

BORN SHEFFIELD, 11/03/1885. MARRIED HULL 1909. WIFE MARY ELIZABETH (BARON). BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A PLATELAYER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILYWAYS, AT KEYINGHAM. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY. SERVED ON HMS "DEFENCE". LOST AT JUTLAND ON 31/05/1916, AGED 30. LEFT A WIDOW AND THREE DAUGHTERS, (IVY, EDNA AND MURIEL), THE ELDEST SEVEN YE […]

BORN ABERDEEN 19/03/1878. SON OF JAMES JOSEPH RYAN (1851-1934) & WILLIAMENA COUTTS (1859- ), OF 40, BACHELOR STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A HM CUSTOM OFFICER. A RAILWAY PORTER. HE HAD JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 20/12/1897 AND WAS DUE TO RETIRE IN TWO YEARS TIME. HIS NAVAL RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT, 9 INCHES TALL, AUBURN HAIR, […]

BORN HULL 01/02/1896. ONLY SON OF ARTHUR TAYLOR (1865-1905) & MATILDA PICKERSGILL (1875-1909), OF 17, HORSHAM TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). NEPHEW OF KATE PICKERSGILL, AT 24, BOURNEMOUTH STREET, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS). HE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 28/04/1912. DROWNED, ON HMS "DEFENCE", DURING THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND, […]