Location: Messines Ridge British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Born Marton, Yorkshire, 1891. Son of William Hodgson (1862-1913) and Isabella Sweeting (1862-1904). Son of a gardener. One of eight children. An apprentice brick layer. He enlisted Middlesbrough, Yorks. Served as Sapper 40366. 62nd Field Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action 18th September 1917. He is commemorated at Messines Ridge […]

BORN HULL 1887. LIVED IN GUILDFORD 1901. SON OF THE LATE SARAH E KNIGHT. A GRAIN PORTER. LIVING AT 2 MARFLEET AVENUE, CRAVEN STREET, HULL (1911) ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 1649, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE ARMY CYCLIST CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/08/1917. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL'S ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF HENRY & MARY ANN, OF 7, WAKEFIELD STREET, HULL. A FORMER HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY CLERK, WORKING 14 YEARS, AT THE CANNON STREET, GOODS STATION. HE JOINED THE COLOURS IN APRIL 1916. SERVED WITH THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/09/1917, AGED 27. HE LEFT WIDOW, ETEL MAY MANSFIELD AND DAUGHTER […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF JOHN FISHCROFT RENNARD & AGNES (SHILLING) RENNARD AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SON OF A SHIPWRIGHT. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. WORKED AT J GIBBINS, BOILER MAKERS, ST ANDREWS DOCK ENLISTED AS A REGULAR SOLDIER, ON 14/07/1905. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 6 INCHES TALL, 115 LBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST, BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR. DIED OF WOUN […]

BORN HULL 1900. SON OF CHARLES EDWARD USHER (1867-1944)& MARY USHER (1870-1906), OF 1 WILSON'S TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL.SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HEALSO WORKED ON THE DOCK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 28/02/1917. DESCRIBED AT 5 FOOT, 7 INCHES TALL, 34.5 INCH CHEST SIZE. CALLED UP ON 05/07/1917. POSTED TO THE 2/5TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS. KIL […]