Regiment: Royal Navy HMS "Vivid"

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF JAMES & ELIZABETH ELLIOTT, OF 77 SWANN STREET, HULL  & OWNERS OF THE SOCIETY TAVERN, HULL. HE WAS ONE OF MANY HULL'S SKIPPERS, WHO JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE WHEN WAR BEGAN. HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE HILDER BARKER AND SON JAMES, LIVED AT  36 , BOYNTON STREET, HULL. THIS WAS HIS OFFICIAL NAVAL ADDRESS. HE DIED O […]

BORN HULL 27/12/1893. EX 1363 SOUTH LANCS. HUSBAND OF GERTRUDE SHAW ABOVE. NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS. BURIED AT PLYMOUTH (FORD PARK) CEMETERY, DEVON, UK.

BORN BARTON 9/12/1879. SON OF WILLIAM PARSON AND DINAH ELLEN HUDSON. A SLOOPMAN. MARRIED AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN 1906. HIS WIFE FLORA (ROBSON (1878-1925), LIVED AT 2 POLAR PARADE, WESTMORELAND STREET (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). FATHER TO FLORENCE ALMA AND STEP FATHER TO HARRY ROBSON. SERVED IN THE NAVY. DIED OF HEART DISEASE, WHILE ON DUTY, […]

BORN HULL 1880. SON OF GEORGE HENRY SMELY & MARY ALICE (CLARK). MARRIED 1901. WIFE MARY ANN FISK & 5 CHILDREN . DOCK DREDGEMAN.

BORN HULL 05/01/1875. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY ON 11/12/1890. SERVED ON HIS FIRST SHIP - HMS 'IMPREGNABLE'. PROMOTED TO CHIEF YEOMAN . SERVED IN THE WAR, AS A SIGNALLER,  ON HMS "VIVID". DIED IN PLYMOUTH HOSPITAL ON 14/05/1917, AGED 42. HIS NEXT OF KIN WAS HIS SISTER, EMMA, OF HOLME HILL AVENUE, SOUTH SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. THIS WAS HIS […]

Born Kirk Ella, Hull, on 18/02/1893. Son of Nicholas Tong (1856-1945) and Rebecca Welbourn (1860-1938), of Knaresborough, West Yorkshire and 23, Coronation Avenue, Harrogate (CWGC address). Son of a coachman. He had four brothers and three sisters. Enlisted as a Boy sailor in the Royal Navy, on 10/12/1913. Described as 5 foot, 8.5 inche […]

BORN HULL 10/03/1878. A ROYAL NAVAL COAL TRIMMER. A BOILER CLEANER, LIVING AT 2 ANN'S TERRACE, MANCHESTER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HIS WIFE MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS LIVED AT 3 GRANVILLE TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE DIED OF DISEASE, AT PLYMOUTH, ON 28/02/1917, AGED 41. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND FOUR CHILDREN.