Location: Courmas British Cemetery, Marne, France

BORN HULL 31/08/1899. SON OF EVAN & HARRIET HAWKES, OF 5, QUEENS PLACE, WILLIAM STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS) AND 3, ALBERT TERRACE, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). SON A TIMBER CARRIER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 9TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 21/07/1918, AGED 18. BURIED AT COURMAS CEME […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF WILLIAM JOHNSON AND FANNY KINSLEY. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED ON 27/05/1918. DIED ON, 10/06/1918. BURIED AT COURMAS BRITISH CEMETERY, MARNE, FRANCE. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN JULY 1916. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, BEATRICE ALICE WOODCOCK (1890-1977) AND THEIR SON […]

BORN HULL 20/06/1883. HE HAD JOINED THE EAST YORKSHIRE TERRITORIALS IN 1899 AGED 18. HE THEN WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER, IN GOOLE. HE MARRIED KATHERINE (KATE) ROBINSON (BORN 09/04/1888), ON 08/12/1908. LIVING AT 6 OAKS YARD, ALBERT STREET, GOOLE. THEY HAD A SON, ALSO CALLED ALEXANDER. HE ENLISTED AT DONCASTER. SERVED AS A SERGEANT, IN TH […]