Regiment: Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 5th Battalion, D Company

Last Name
Address
Narrative
Holderness, Fredrick William
Private
Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 5th Battalion, D Company
44 , ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Area
Alexandra Road
       
Died on
14/05/1918
       
Aged
31
BORN HULL 1886. SECOND SON OF HERBERT LACY HOLDERNESS & EMILY BLACKBURN ABOVE CWGC AND PROBATE ADDRESS. WORKED FOR HIS FATHER AS A JOURNALIST FOR THE DRIFFIELD OBSERVER. ENLISTED DRIFFIELD 13/08/1914. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 8 INCHES TALL, 33 INCH CHEST, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. VERY GOOD CHARACTER. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 10/10/1915. RETURNED […]
King, MM, William George
Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 5th Battalion, D Company
Gardham, Etton, East Yorkshire
       
Died on
28/03/1918
       
Aged
22
Born Etton, Yorkshire, 1896. Son of Herbert T. King (1871-1946) and Alice Poppleton (1874-1924), of Gardham, Etton, Beverley, Yorkshire. He had seven brothers and three sister. Worked as a Horse lad working on a farm at Hutton Cranswick, Beverley (1911 Census). He enlisted at Beverley. Served as Private, 241065, 5th Yorkshire Regiment […]