Deck Hand
BORN CHESTERFIELD, DERBYSHIRE, 06/12/1884. SON OF LEONARD FOSTER (1855-1917) AND HARRIET PAPE. A FISHERMAN. HE MARRIED MARY EDITH HALLIDAY, IN HULL, IN 1902 AGED 17. THEY LIVED AT THIS NAVAL ADDRESS. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. FELL IN GRANVILLE DOCK WHILST BOARDING VESSEL AT DOVER. DROWNED ON 26/11/1915, AGED 30. HE IS BURIED […]
BORN HULL 15/11/1891. SON OF EDWARD & HANNAH HILL, OF 18 BARMSTON STREET, HULL. MARRIED AT HULL, 1912. HIS WIFE, AGNES LAVIDA JACKSON AND SON RONALD HILL. LIVED AT 8 EARLES ROW, WILMINGTON, HULL,. NAVAL RECORDS. SHE LATER MOVED TO 112, ORDSALL LANE, SALFORD, MANCHESTER. On February 15th, 1918 Admiralty trawler JAMES POND (3) and net […]
BORN DEPTFORD 24/02/1886. WIFE ETHEL WIGNALL ABOVE. HULL HEROES WEB SITE. NAVAL ADDRESS. HE IS BURIED AT DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY, KENT. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "BELOVED HUSBAND OF ETHEL WIGNALL - AT REST" Falmouth III, built by J. Duthie Torry SB. Co., Aberdeen in 1909 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a […]
Able Seaman
BORN HULL 23/06/1897. SON OF JOSEPH AND TERESSA YEADON, OF 43 , CROWLE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION, CWGC & NAVAL ADDRESS). ABLE SEAMAN. HE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 18/04/1914. DIED AT ZEEBRUGGE, ON 23/04/1918, AGED 20. HE IS BURIED IN KENT AT DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "HE SLEEPS WITH BRITISH HEROES IN […]
