Location: Beverley (St. Mary) Church Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK

BORN GUISBOROUGH, YORKS, 1892. SON OF GEORGE BRUCE (1858-1929) AND ELIZA ANN STIMPSON (1858-1944). EMPLOYED AS A TIMBER MERCHANT'S APPRENTICE. LIVING AT 11 ST MARY'S TERRACE, BEVERLEY. HE MARRIED EMILY M LUCAS, AT BEVERLEY, IN AUGUST 1914. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 241709, AT THE YORKSHIRE HUSSARS DEPOT. HE DIED […]

Private, George Henry Eldon, No. 19332, 6th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to the Labour Corps, Reg No. 398086. Previously served in the South African Campaign. Born: Beverley 1874. Son of Charles Eldon & Sarah Ann Scruton, of Keldgate, Beverley. Son of a cow keeper. He had two brothers and three sisters. George married El […]

Private Charles Edward Everett (1891-1917) Charles Edward Everett was born in Lodden, in Norfolk in 1891. Son of Elizabeth and Charles William Everett, of Topcroft, Norfolk; husband of Florence Ethel Everett, of 42, Far Grove, Norwood, Beverley. He joined the East Yorkshire Regiment on 13 July 1913. He was based at The Rich in Withernse […]

BORN WEYBREAD, SUFFOLK 1856. HUSBAND OF REBECCA EMILY (DEARING) AT 5 WALTON VILLAS, BRUNSWICK AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF WILLIAM & LUCY GARDINER, OF ANN'S TERRACE, CLIFTON STREET, HULL. A DRILL SERGEANT FOR THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF HEAT FAILURE, ON BEVERLEY WESTWOOD, ON 21/09/1914, AGED 58. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOG […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF DANVERS & ELIZABETH HART, HESSLE. WIFE FLORENCE & 4 CHILDREN LIVED ABOVE. HULL HEROES WEBSITE.

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE EDWARD ALBERT HOLMES 11/528. Edward was born at Beverley, in June 1892, the fifth of seven children to Horatio and Sarah Holmes of The Dog and Duck Inn, Ladygate, Beverley. A Blacksmith before the war. He queued in the long uneven lines outside Hull City Hall to become a part of the fledgling Pals Battali […]

BORN WESTWWOD, BEVERLEY 1892. SON OF FRANCIS WOOD & SARAH ANN HOOD, OF WHITEHOUSE, QUEENSGATE, BEVERLEY. HIS WIFE GERTRUDE HANCOCK, LIVED AT 20 PRINCE OF WALES TERRACE, STANIFORTH PLACE, HULL. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT DOVER HOSPITAL, KENT, ON 18/05/1918, AGED 25. BURIED AT ST JOHNS CEMETERY, BEVERLEY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION READS, "EVER […]

BORN BEVERLEY, 1881. SON OF AARON METCALFE (1840-1914) AND ELIZABETH COUPLAND (1846-1912). MARRIED SARAH JANE SHILLITO (1877-1960), AT BEVERLEY, IN 1909. A BUILDER'S JOINER. THEY LIVED AT 2 CROWN TERRACE, LAIRGATE, BEVERLEY (1911 CENSUS). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, HARRY, ALICE AND NORMAN. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED IN THE 4TH YORKSH […]

Born Cheetham Hill, Lancashire, 1876. Son of Charles Edward and Ellen Mitchell, of 365 Grovehill Road, Beverley. A former soldier. He enlisted in 1893. Served in South Africa, with the Manchester Regiment and was a Reservist. Discharged in 1909. In civilian life, he worked as shipyard labourer, in Beverley. He was mobilized at Beverley, […]

BORN HULL 1885. LIVED HESSLE. ENLISTED HULL. FORMER NER WORKER. WIFE MABEL JEANETTE PLOUGHER, 14 WELL GARDEN, BEVERLEY & AT 3 CHURCHILL CRESCENT, DURHAM STREET, HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRES IN EGYPT AND FRANCE, BADLY WOUNDED ON THE 13/11/1916. HE DIED OF THESE WOUNDS, 04/02/1917, AGED 32. HE WAS BURIED AT HOME WITH […]

Born at Loughborough, 1890. Second son of Charles William Vick (1860-1931) and Agnes Mabel David (1861-1942), of 175, Chevening Road., Brondesbury, Brent, London. Son of a Baptist Minister. Fourth of five children. Worked as Tourist Officer Clerk and living with parents at 50 Fordwych Road, Cricklewood, Hampstead N W (1911 Census). He […]

Harry was born in 1887 at Holme on the Wolds; on the 1891 census he is aged 5 years and living at Holme on the Wolds with his father Titus and mother Emma Wadsworth, also at home are his brothers and sisters Jane aged 22, Fred aged 12, Charles aged 10, Annie aged 9, Robert aged 7, Henry aged 5 and Thomas aged 2 years. In 1901 Henry W […]

BORN HULL 21/01/1874. SON OF ANTHONY WALSH (1843-1912) AND CATHERINE WALSH (1844-1926). SON OF A BRICKLAYER. BOTH HIS PARENTS WERE BORN IN IRELAND. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN AND THREE SONS LOST IN THE WAR. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 14 NEWTON COURT ALDBORO STREET IN 1881; 3 SCOTTS PLACE, SCOTT STREET IN 1901; 4 WOODBINE TERRACE, RODNEY STREET IN 1 […]

Private Herbert Edwin Wilson (1894-1918) of Beverley Herbert Edwin was born in 1894 in Beverley, the youngest of eight children. Born to wheelwright, William Wilson of 87 Keldgate and his wife Ann Eleanor (nee Pinder). He lived at 89 Newbridge Road, Hull. Herbert enrolled in the East Yorkshire Regiment, 6th Battalion, and went to the Ba […]

Born Bournemouth, 1 Dec 1898. Son of Frederick John Young and Annie Tedd, of Son of Frederick John and Annie Young, of 6, Salisbury Rd., Boscombe, Bournemouth.. Educated there. Apprenticed to Boscombe Pharmaceutical Chemists. Joined the 37th Training Reserve Battalion, in March 1917. Transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, in August 1917. […]