Location: Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq

BORN WRAWBY, LINCS 1893. SON OF WILLIAM ASHBY & MARY ELIZABETH - WRAWBY, LINCS. LEFT

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF CHARLES BIRD (1853-1924) & ESTHER BARKER (1857-1935), OF 71, DANSOM LANE SOUTH , HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND 77 KENT STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A FIREWOOD DEALER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS. WORKED AS A SAW MILL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGI […]

BORN SHARROW, YORKSHIRE, 1898. SON OF WILLIAM AND CLARA BROWN, OF 10, KINGS SQUARE, SYKES STREET, HULL AND 24, SHELDON STREET, SHEFFIELD (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT SHEFFIELD. JOINED THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. SERVED AT GALLIPOLI FROM 14/07/1915. CAPTURED AND DIED AS A TURKISH PRISONER, ON 28/01/1917, AGED 19. COMMEMORAT […]

BORN HULL 1889. ONLY SON OF ALFRED BURDEN (1868-1933) & HARRIET ELIZABETH EDMONDS (1870-1954), OF 6 ELLENS VILLAS, HOLLAND STREET & THIS CWGC ADDRESS. A BOILER MAKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. TRAINED AT WOOLWHICH. SERVED AS GUNNER, 35768, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, 55TH BRIGADE, 'C' BATTERY. HE DIED IN MESOPOTANIA, ON 21/10/1918, AGED 29. HE I […]

BORN HULL 1894. YOUNGEST SON OF MR JOHN THOMAS CHADWICK (1863-1946) & MARY ELLEN BROCKLESBY (1870-1931), OF 80 SEATON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. UNMARRIED. BEFORE ENLISTING, HE WORKED AS A FISH CARTER AND MERCHANT, IN HIS FATHER'S FISH BUSINESS AND WAS WELL KNOWN AT HULL BI […]

Born Hull, 1898. Son of Eliza Hall and Charles Collins, of 128, Thoresby Street, Princes Avenue, Hull (war Pension address). Served as a Private, in the 2nd East Yorkshire Regiment. Died of Heart failure, on 31/05/1921, aged 23. Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq.

BORN HULL 19/10/1887. SON OF THE LATE HANNAH AND GEORGE HURST SUTTON, FROM HODGSON STREET, HULL. BOTH PARENTS DECEASED. BROTHER, TO JOHN & ROBERT COOK, AT 4 REGENTS COURT, UPPER UNION STREET, HULL. HIS SISTER, MRS ADA MARSHALL, LIVED AT 8 ETTY'S TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL. HE WORKED AS A LABOURER. ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY, ON 19/10 […]

BORN HULL 1877. SON OF GEORGE FISHER (1844-1918) AND ELIZABETH JONES FISHER (1855-1918), OF 10 CLARENCE AVENUE, EXHANGE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A GAS STOKER. HE MARRIED FLORRIE HOWIE WILKES, ON 11/08/1900. AT ALL SAINTS CHURCH, SOUTH LAMBETH, LONDON. THEY LIVED AT THIS ARMY ADDRESS, WITH THEIR SIX CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A GAS […]

BORN HULL 12/09/1874. SON OF ALFRED JACKSON & ELIZA MARRIOT, OF 3 HENRY'S BUILDINGS, GREAT PASSAGE STREET, HULL. A DOCK LABOURER. WORKED FOR THE STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, HULL. HUSBAND OF THE LATE FRANCES (ADWICK). FATHER OF FOUR CHILDREN. THEY LIVED AT 3 WILLOW TERRACE, REGENT STREET, HULL. HIS BROTHERS ERE WALTER & JAMES E JA […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF ARTHUR THOMAS & LIZ LLOYD OF HULL. REGULAR SOLDIER - 2ND EYR - 1911 CENSUS. BROTHERS ARTHUR & GEORGE ALSO KILLED.

Born Dundee, Forfarshire, 1884. Son of John Mc Arthur and Helen Stirton Young (1860-1945), of 3, Johns Place, Adelaide Street, Hull (War Pension address). He had five brothers and one sister. A Mill worker, at the Jutes works, Dundee. He joined the army aged 19, on 09/01/1901. He deserted from Fort George, on 06/12/1901. Described as 5 f […]

BORN BRADFORD 1890. SON OF ANDREW AND LIZZIE MILLER, OF 16 CLARE STREET, SHIPLEY, YORKSHIRE. EDWIN LIVED IN THE ST ANDREWS DOCK AREA OF HULL AND WAS WORKING ON SHIP CREWS AT THE AGE OF 13. . HE ENLISTED IN HULL SERVED AS A BANDSMAN, IN THE ROYAL HIGHLANDERS, BLACK WATCH. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL (MM) FOR GALLANTRY, DIED OF WOUNDS IN I […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF ALFRED MOORE ABOVE ADDRESS 1901 CENSUS.

John Walter Pigeon was born in 1896, the only son of 5 children of eminent surgeon, and assistant surgeon to the Hull Royal Infirmary, Henry Walter Pigeon and his wife Elizabeth. He initially attended Hymers College, but due to ill health his father transferred him to Sherbourne School in Dorset. He graduated at Cambridge University and […]

Born Hull, 1899, Son of Minnie Pollock of 1, Watson Place, Canning Street, Hull (War Pension address) Served as Private, 26055, 2nd Royal Irish Rifles. Died at Bagdad, on 01/12/1920, aged 21.

BORN HULL 1884. WIFE CICELY (NEE EDWARDS), OFT HE LEAS, NEWLAND PARK, HULL. SON OF RICHARD & SARAH ELIZABETH RILEY, OF 12 FALMOUTH STREET, HULL. EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, BRUMBY & CLARKES, AS A LITHOGRAPHER. SERVED AS A DISPATCH RIDER IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. WENT TO EGYPT, IN 1916. TAKEN PRISONER, IN MARCH 1917, AT THE BATTLE OF GAZ […]

Born Pocklington, 1887. Son of John Cundy Rippon and Mary Ann Rippon, of 9, Church Lane Pocklington (1911 Census). Son of a shoemaker. He had three brothers and three sisters. Worked as a postman. Married on 22/10/1913.His wife Amy, and two children, Annie and Wilfred, lived at Field View, Perry Road, Pocklington and 64, St Johns Grove, […]

BORN BEEFORD, YORKS, 1889. SON OF THOMAS AND MARY E. ROBSON, OF BEEFORD. HUSBAND OF, ADA EDITH ROBSON, OF  11 WOODBINE TERRACE, REYNOLDSON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). LABOURER IN PAINT WORKS. ENLISTED HULL, ON 11 DEC 1915. SERVED WITH THE 2ND LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED IN BAGDAD, ON 24/10/1917, AGED 28.

BORN HULL 09/071888. ONLY SON OF JOSEPH SLATER & DEBORAH BLADES LUNDS, OF 47 HILDA STREET, HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR AND HYMERS SCHOOL, HULL HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. ENLISTED IN THE 14TH HUSSARS ON 15/06/ 1907. SERVED IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND FOR TWO YEARS. WENT TO INDIA, ON 18/10/1909. PROCEEDED TO THE MIDDLE EAST IN NOVEMBER 1915. TTOK […]

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF GEORGE STANLEY & ELIZA WILLIAMS STEPHENSON, OF THIS CWGC ADDRESS. BROTHER TO ALICE AND ETHEL. A REGULAR SOLDIER. HE SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, FOR TWELVE YEARS, HE WAS AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL (DCM) ON 14/04/1915, AT BARJISIYAH, TURKEY, "FOR VERY GALLANT CONDUCT, WHEN HE BEI […]