Location: Queens Cemetery, Puisieux, Pas de Calais, France

BORN BARROW ON HUMBER 1895.SON OF BENJAMIN & EMILY J BARNABY, OF BARROW ON HUMBER. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR BLUNDELLS PAINT WORKS. HIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS WAS 2 HYMERS GROVE, WEST PARADE. MATTHEW ENLISTED IN THE 3RD HULL PALS, ON 16/11/1914. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 13/35, 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. THIS HULL PALS BATTALION STARTE […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF JAMES & ANNIE MARIA CHESTER, OF 45, GRANVILLE STREET AND 4, MINNIE GROVE, WALTON STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO SISTERS. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1913. HIS WIFE GLADYS ENID THORLEY & 3 CHILDREN, LIVED AT 81, MELROSE STREET, HULL AND LATER MOVED TO 63, BANNISTER STREET AND 51 ARTHUR STREET, WITHERNSEA, AFTER HIS DE […]

Born Nafferton, Yorkshire, 1898. Son of John Thomas Cowton (1863-1939) & Mary Agnes Vickerman (1867-1953), of 3 Arch Avenue, Holmes Street, Fountain Road, Hull (1911 Census). Son of a railway porter. He had two brothers, Edward and Albert and a sister, Edith. He enlisted in the Hull Pals. Served with the 13th East Yorkshire Regime […]

BORN HULL 1888. ELDEST SON OF HARRY LEE (1862-1950) & ADA FAITH APPLEYARD (1865-1960), OF 88, LONDESBOROUGH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. WORKED AS A TANNER'S LABOURER. JOINED THE HULL PALS AS PRIVATE, 111, 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. TRANSFERRED TO THE "ACCRINGTON […]

BORN GRIMSBY 1894. SON OF EMMA McCARTHY, 10 CAMDEN STREET, BOULEVARD AND LATER WOODBINE, 19 NEW WALK, BEVERLEY. HE WAS A SINGLE MAN AND LIVED WITH HIS ONLY BROTHER. REGINALD AND ONLY SISTER ANNIE. THEY LIVED AT 127 WINCOLMLEE (HIS ARMY ADDRESS). HE LISTED HIS OCCUPATION AS "SHOP MANAGER". HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 19/11/1914. AND JOINED TH […]

BORN HULL 1897. YOUNGEST SON OF VICTOR SWIFT (1864-1922) & ELLEN DONNISON (1865-1931), OF 6, MIDGLEY TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL. SON OF A GENERAL LABOURER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE WORKED AS A GROCER'S ASSISTANT AND 'LOCK SMITH', AT SPENCER STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS ON 15/02/1915. SERVED WITH THE 13T […]

BORN BELFAST 1882. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AT THE ROBSON CEMENT FACTORY, STONEFERRY, HULL FOR  A NUMBER OF YEARS. HE ENLISTED IN NOVEMBER 1914 AND WAS "WAS MOST ANXIOUS TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY." HE LEFT WIFE FLORENCE MAY TURLEY & SIX CHILDREN, THE YOUNGEST ONLY 2 YEARS OLD, AT 9 BEAUMONT AVENUE, BEAUMONT STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS 01 […]

BORN BARTON ON HUMBER 1894. SON OF WALLIS & KATE WALKER, OF 6 LEE STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MESSRS. BLEASDALE AND BARRACLOUGH, HULL, AS SHIP'S MATE OF A KEEL. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN BARTON ON HUMBER. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. JOINING THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE (HULL SPORTSMEN) BATTALION. HE SERVED IN EGYPT AND […]

BORN HULL 1898. ONLY SON OF GEORGE FREDERICK WILSON & EDITH ROSE BENNETT, OF 9 BONFIELD TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL. HE HAD THREE SISTERS, ETHEL, EDITH AND ELSIE. THE FAMILY ALSO LIVED AT 9 DERWENT AVENUE, WESTBOURNE STREET AND 11 DUKE TERRACE, MARMADUKE STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION AT SERRE, 13/1 […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF MARK AND ANNIE WILSON AT 13 NELLIES TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). ONE OF THREE SONS KILLED IN THE WAR. A FORMER FISH WORKER. HIS MOTHER WAS DECEASED AND HE LEFT SISTERS, MARY AND ELEANOR AND OLDER BROTHER HARRY. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS 23/11/1914. HE WAS 5 FOOT 4 INCHES TALL AND OF 'GO […]