Location: Barrow On Humber, Lincolnshire, UK

BORN BARROW ON HUMBER, 1892. SON OF JOHN BILTON & JANE ANN (PARKIN), BARROW OM HUMBER. SON OF A BUILDER. HE WAS A BRICKLAYER'S APPRENTICE. MARRIED IN NEWCASTLE 1917. WIFE MARY S. SEATREE. LIVED 75 PANMURE ST, NEWCASTLE. TRANSFERRED TO 493837 LABOUR CORPS. DIED OF WOUNDS AT HOME AFTER THE WAR. HE WAS ONE OF SIX SONS SERVING AND TH […]

BORN BARROW, LINCS 1899. SON OF ROBERT GRASSBY (1852-1938) & SARAH JANE OTTER (1857-1911), of 5 MOUNT PLEASANT PLACE, NEW HOLLAND, BARROW ON HUMBER. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED AT SCUNTHORPE. LIVED IN HULL. DIED IN TRAINING WITH THE 15TH SHERWOOD FORESTER RESERVES, ON 12/05/1917, AGED 18. HIS WAR PENSION, WAS LEFT TO HIS FATH […]

BORN BARROW ON HUMBER, 1896. SON OF CHARLES KING (1870-1948) & SARAH ANN WRIGHT (1866-1939) , NEW HOLLAND ABOVE. A BUTCHER'S ERRAND BOY. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 31/12/1914, AGED 19 AND 9 MONTHS. SERVED IN EGYPT, BELGIUM AND FRANCE. HE SURVIVED TRENCHES, AND SERVED FOR 4 YEARS AND 87 DAYS. HE DIED OF HEART FAILURE, FOLLOWING […]

BORN HULL 1897. ONLY SON OF JOHN THOMAS RAYTON (1871-1906) & ANN ELIZABETH LAMMING (1869-), OF LORD'S LANE, BARROW ON HUMBER. HE HAD TWO SISTERS, EDITH AND DORIS. WORKED AS A SHIP BUILDER'S ERRAND BOY AND THEN AS A "CRANE LAD" ON THE GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON THE 24TH JULY 1916 AND SERVED WITH THE 8TH LINCOLNS. […]