Location: Dozinghem Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

BORN PRESTON, HULL 1897. YOUNGEST SON OF HENRY AND SARAH ELIZABETH BROCKLEBANK, OF "ACEY FARM " AND "WEST END" FARM, PRESTON, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS, ON 28/09/1917, AGED 20. HE HAD REMARKED TO THE NURSE THAT HE HAD A "BLIGHTY" WOUND AND WOULD BE COMING HOME. UNFORTU […]

Born Sandholme, Yorkshire, 1890. Son of Robert Haldenby Buttle and Mary Buttle, of Sandholme, Gilberdyke, Brough, East Yorkshire. He had one brother and three sisters. Worked as a Horseman on Farm. He enlisted in Hull. Served in the 1/7th Northumberland Fusiliers. Died of wounds, on 01/11/1917, aged 27. Buried at Dozinghem Military Ceme […]

BORN BEVERLEY 25/02/1895. SON OF SAMUEL & RACHAEL CHAPMAN - 34 WALKERGATE, BEVERLEY. EDUCATED AT MINSTER SCHOOL, BEVERLEY. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. JOINED THE 4TH EYR, TERRITORIAL FORCE IN 1914. SERVED IN FRANCE FROM APRIL 1915. WOUNDED AT PASCHENDAELE. DIED AT NO:4 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, ON 28/10/1917, AGED 22. A FRIEND OF HIS WROTE […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF EDGAR CHILD (1862-1937) AND ELIZABETH ANN HEARN (1861-1914), OF BURLEY HOUSE, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A STEVEDORE. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1914. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS (RAMC). DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 29/11/1917, AGED 21. BURIED AT DOZINGHEM MIL […]

Born Hull 1890. Son of Ellen Creighton, of 19, Wood Lane, Beverley, and the late Frank Creighton. Enlisted Beverley. Served with the 1/7th Northumberland Fusiliers. Died of wounds, on 27/10/1917, aged 28. Unmarried. His army effects were left to his mother, Eleen. He is buried in Belgium. His grave inscription, reads, "IN GOD'S KEEPING" […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN DAWSON (1848-1904) & MARY ANN DAWSON, OF 54 WALCOTT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER. HIS FIANCEE WAS LILLY. LIVED WITH BROTHER, WILLIAM, AT 56 WALCOTT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). A GROCER'S ASSISTANT AND FORMER 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE TERRITORIAL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 11/12/1915, […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF JOHN GALLOWAY (1848-1912) & SARAH ANN FOWLER (1859-1947), AT 46, CLEVELAND STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A PAINT GRINDER FROM DUBLIN. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. ONE OF THREE BROTHERS KILLED IN 1916. A GENERAL LABOURER AND A MEMBER OF THE HULL GARDENER SOCIETY. HE WAS HUSBAND TO ALICE SILLIS, LIVING AT EAGLE […]

BORN HULL 1895. HOLY TRINITY. KNOWN AS 'FRED'. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM AND JANE HIGGINBOTHAM, OF 6 , NEWTON STREET, HULL AND 8 ADA'S TERRACE, ST PAUL STREET, HULL. ONE OF FOUR SONS. APPRENTICE SHOE MAKER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, WITH THE 3RD COLDSTREAM GUARDS. DIED OF WOUNDS AT HOME, ON 15/09/1917, AGED 23. HIS DEATH WAS R […]

BORN SWINDON, WILTSHIRE, 1890. SON OF FLORENCE (FLORRIE) JOHN, OF 16 BRUNSWICK TERRACE, GROSVENOR STREET, HULL (HDM 19/09/1917 ADDRESS). EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. A RAILWAY CLERK WORKING IN SWINDON (1911 CENSUS).  COMMISSIONED INTO THE ROYAL ENGINEERS, TUNNELLING COMPANY. KILLED IN BELGIUM, ON 25/09/1917, AGED 27. HE LEFT £158 […]

Born Riplinham, 1896. Only son of James and Emma Johnson, of Brookdale Elloughton, Brough, Yorks. He had two older sisters. A native of Riplingham, he worked at Hends Cottage Field House Riplingham. He enlisted at Hull. Served as a Driver and Acting Bomabardier in the Royal Field Artillery, 32nd Ammunition Divisional Column. Died of woun […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1879. SON OF JOHN JUDE (1840-1927) AND HARRIET BALES (1845-1886), OF CHANTRY LANE, BEVERLEY (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD NINE BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS. EMIGRATED TO MONTREAL, CANADA IN 1906. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 6TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. DIED OF WOUNDS AT 47TH CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, BELGIUM, ON 15/10/1917, AGED 38 […]

Husband of Florrie Long, of 3, Jubilee Cottages, Grovehill, Beverley. Albert Long was born in Beverley in 1883, son of William West and Emma Long (nee Blakeston). He married Florrie Hancock of Beckside in 1906 at Beverley Minster. They had three children. Albert joined the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (the “Beverley Terriers […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF EMMA ROWDEN (1868-1945) & THE LATE PATRICK McCORMICK (1865-1911), OF 9, DERBY STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A ROMAN CATHOLIC, FROM AN IRISH FAMILY. HIS MANY SIBLINGS DIED IN INFANCY. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1911. HE HAD ONE SURVIVING BROTHER, GABRIEL McCORMICK (1906-1956). BEFORE THE WAR, HE WAS A ST […]

BORN NORTON, YORKS, 1887. ONLY SON OF GEORGE & RACHEL (STABLER) PALMER, OF  THE CLIFFE, HESSLE, HULL. HE HAD THREE SISTERS - RACHEL, MAY & FLORENCE. HE LIVED IN TICTON, FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND WAS EDUCATED AT ST MARY'S BOY'S SCHOOL, BEVERLEY. HE WAS MARRIED, BUT HAD NO CHILDREN. EMPLOYED BY THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY, COMPANY, IN […]

BORN RICCALL, YORKS 1888. LIVED HULL. ENLISTED HULL. DIED OF WOUNDS - YPRES. SON OF ROBERT REED & ALICE HODGSON. ARMY ADDRESS ABOVE. HE WAS A NER POLICE MAN BEFORE THE WAR IN HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 7TH SEPTEMBER 1917.

BORN HULL 1883. BROTHER OF JOHN SPENCER, OF 20 SANDY LANE, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN BURY, ALNCASHIRE. EX. PRIVATE, 23778, LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/10/1917, AGED 34. BURIED AT DRANOUTRE MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MARGARET JAGGER.

BORN HULL 1894. YOUNGEST SON OF THOMAS AND ELIZABETH STANION, OF 4, WOODS LANE, SOUTH STREET, HULL AND 3, KINGSTON TERRACE, ST STEPHEN'S SQUARE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A PORTER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 5315, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND AS PRIVATE, 4306, IN THE 5TH BORDER REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/07/1 […]

Born Hull 1/03/1895.  Resided Sunk Island. Son of Frederick Thompson & Adelaide Amelia Musk (1860-1931), of 113 Stepney Lane, Hull. He had three brothers and six sisters. Worked as a Tanner's labourer. Enlisted Hull. Formerly, 25296, EYR. Transferred from 13041, 22nd Labour Corps. Died of Wounds on 09/09/1917, aged 22. Buried in Wes […]

Born Hunslet, Leeds. Son of Mary Wake, of 14, Hulland St., Hunslet, Leeds, and the late Austin Wake. He enlisted in Hull. Served with the 9th West Yorkshire Regiment. Died of wounds, on 29/08/1917, aged 31. His grave reads, ETERNAL REST GIVE TO HIM O LORD AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIS SOUL O LORD