Location: Aval Wood Military Cemetery, Vieux-Berquin, Nord, France

BORN LLANANBEBLIG, CANARVON, WALES, 1881. ONLY SON OF JOSEPH AND MARGARET BANHAM. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. A FORMER SOLDIER FOR 6 YEARS. TIME EXPIRED AND DISCHARGED ON 13/04/1906. HUSBAND OF ANNIE. THEY HAD THREE DAUGHTERS, MAGGIE, ANNIE AND EMILY. HE ENLISTED ON 08/09/1914. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 19054, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. PROMOTED CORPO […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM BONE (1855-1912) & MARY ELIZABETH TATE BONE, OF 48 HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A COAL MERCHANT. HE MARRIED IN HULL, IN JULY 1914. HUSBAND TO ROSIE HARBORD (1888-1956) AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. PROMOTED TO LANCE SERGEAN […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE PERCY CARRICK 28765. Born at Roos, Yorkshire, 1891, the son of Hannah Maria Carrick, of Burton Road, Roos, East Yorkshire. His home life was complicated and hard to trace. It appears he was born out of wedlock (very much frowned upon at the time) as Percy William Creaser. His mother then married William C […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES ANDREW COOK 12/350. Born in May 1896 in Battersea, James was the third of four children to Alfred and Marianne Cook of 10 Clovelly Road, Acton Lane, Chiswick. The 1911 Census found him employed as a Helper in Domestic Service, but by the outbreak of war James was a Sailor working out of the bustling […]

BORN BARTON 1891. SON OF WILLIAM & ELIZABETH, OF BARTON ON HUMBER. HUSBAND OF FRANCES MARY (HORSEFALL), OF 68 MERSY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/06/1918, AGED 27. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 26/07/1918. HE IS BURIED AT AVAL WOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, VIEUX-BERQU […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ROBERT FISHER 201258. Born 1887, the second of four children to Robert Fisher (1864-1940) and Annie Fisher (1864-1892), of 92 Rosmead Street, Hull. Robert was a Timber Foreman prior to enlistment at Hull City Hall on 4th November 1915. Further details are sketchy, but he served with the 10th Battalion Eas […]

BORN HULL 1885. SCULCOATES. MOTHER MRS MARY JANE HARMAN ABOVE. HULL PAL. NB: HARRY HARMAN, EYR - 9 MAYO TER, STANLEY ST. TMBER YARD WORKER. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE TOM HARMAN 11/262. Born in Hull for sure, but could have been any of three Tom Harman's of military age when war broke out. I know he enlisted at Hull City Hall on Mo […]

BORN LEEDS 1892. ENLISTED HULL 26/10/14 AGED 22. EX 70337 MGC. WENT TO FRANCE 9/6/1916. POSTED TO 10TH EYR - 31/3/17. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY E HAXBY, LEEDS. HULL ADDRESS UNTRACED. NO PENSION RECORDS. HIS MEDALS WERE UNCLAIMED. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ERNEST HAXBY 31065. The Forces Records say Ernest Haxby was born in Hull, bu […]

BORN SUTTON ON SEA 1890. ENLISTED HULL. LIVED AT 11 CROMWELL STREET, HULL (THE SAME HOUSE AS WILLIAM GAUNT). EMPLOYED BY THE HULL AND BARNSLEY, LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, SPRINGHEAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN FRANCE FOR TWO AND HALF YEARS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON  28/06/1918, AGED 28. (HDM 08/07/1918). A BROTHER SERVED IN FRANC […]

BORN TANKERSLEY, YORKS, 06/11/1887. SON OF WILLIAM KIRK (1859-1932) & BETSY HELEN BENNETT (1862-1945), OF CHESTNUT VILLA, NORTH CAVE, BROUGH (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 3, FARNLEY SQUARE, ELLA STREET, HULL. SECOND OF FOUR CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A COLLIERY CLERK, LIVING AT 2 VERMONT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN THE "HULL COMME […]

BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF ANNIE NAYLOR, OF 13 BOHEMIA TERRACE, FINSBURY STREET, HULL FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED FOR MESSRS WRAY & SONS, FRUITERERS, HUMBER STREET. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. REPORTED MISSING ON 28/06.1918. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30TH SEPTEMBER […]

BORN HULL 1881. ENLISTED HULL. ONLY SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS. HUSBAND OF BEATRICE PARKER AT 15 ALICES' TERRACE, PELHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC RECORDS) , 25, WARWICK STREET, HULL AND 15, ALICES' TERRACE, PELHAM STREET, HULL. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN, MARY AND WILLIAM. HE SERVED IN THE HULL PALS, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 30/06/1918, AGED 27. BURIED […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES WILLIAM PARKER 27346. Born in 1890, James was the sixth of nine children to Harry and Kate Parker. He appears to have dropped his Christian name in favour of using William, and it is as William he is listed on Census records. He married Beatrice Wilson at St. Mary's, Hull on 28th December 1912 and t […]

BORN WEST BRIDGEFORD, NOTTS, 1891. HULL PAL. PARENTS REV. EDMUND & MRS POTTS LIVED IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Hull Pals Memorial Post. CORPORAL ALFRED WESLEY SARJEANT POTTS 10/939. Born September 1891 in West Bridgeford, Nottinghamshire, Alfred was the son of the Reverend Edmund Potts, a Wesleyan Minister, and his wife Sarah. What happened to […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ISAAC REUBEN 10/1045. Born in June 1892, Isaac was the third of ten children to Julius and Minnie Reuben of 4 St. Stephen's Square, Hull and 5, Garden Street, Hull (war Pension address). Julius and Minnie were Polish immigrants, and the family trade was clothing manufacture; Julius was a Boot Maker and th […]

BORN HULL 1884. SON OF GEORGE (1851- )& MARY RICHARDSON (1853-1928), OF 10, MARY ANN TERRACE, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL. SON OF A BRICKLAYER. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND SIX BROTHERS (THREE WERE LOST IN THE WAR). ONE OF SIX RICHARDSON BROTHERS SERVING FROM SCULCOATES LANE. HE MARRIED MARY ELIZABETH BARKER, IN 1909. THEY HAD THREE DAUGHTERS […]

BORN HULL 1893. HULL PAL. SON OF WILLIAM JOSHUA & AMELIA MARY SELLERS. KILLED IN ACTION. BROTHER HERBERT ALSO DIED 19/9/16. Hull Pals Memorial Post. SGT HARRY SELLERS MM 11/772. Born in 1893, Harry was the third of ten children to William and Amelia Sellers of 140 Severn Street, Hull. A Ship's Cook by trade he enlisted in Hull City H […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF GEORGE HENRY SHARP (1861-1950) & ALICE MARY SHARP (1867-1946), OF 1, MABELS AVENUE, FRANKLIN STREET, HULL. A BLACK LEAD LABOURER. HE WAS EMPLOYED FOR NINE YEARS, AT THE RECKITT'S WORKS, DANSOM LANE, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 12632, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN C […]

BORN LIVERPOOL 1899. SON OF FRANK THURLOE (1870-1918) AND SARAH AVELINE JENSEN (1868-1920), OF 116, YORK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BOTH PARENTS WERE BORN IN HULL. SON OF A PAINT WORKER. ONE OF FOUR SONS. HE HAD ONE SISTER. A RECKITT'S WORKER. HE WAS A SINGLE MAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL.  FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 30745 EAST RIDING YEOMA […]