CAYEUX MILITARY CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE - Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914

Last Name

Regiment

Address

Narrative

Bennington, Tom

Private

Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 2nd Battalion

Aldbrough, Hull

Died on

18/04/1917

Aged

Born Aldbrough, Hull, 1891. Son of George and the late Emily Bennington, of Aldbrough. Enlisted Hornsea. Formerly Private, 21681 East Yorkshire regiment. Transferred to the 2nd Yorkshire regiment. Killed in action, on 18/04/1917, aged 28. Buried at Cayeux Military Cemetery, Somme, France. He is commemorated on the Aldbrough village war memorial

Kirkup, William Norman

Private

7th East Yorkshire Regiment

3 SYDENHAM VILLAS, STANLEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK

Area

Stanley Street

Died on

08/06/1918

Aged

BORN SUNDERLAND 1898. SON WILLIAM & FRANCIS EMMA KIRKUP, OF 3 SYDENHAM VILLAS, STANLEY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 15TH AUGUST 1919. * HE IS BURIED AT CAYEUX MILITARY CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "NOT MY WILL BUT THINE BE DONE" NB: PTE,. NORMAN KIRKUP, […]