Location: R.E. Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

BORN HULL 11/01/1889. SON OF ROBERT BAXTER (1846-1905) AND EMMA DALTON FLOUNDERS (1850-1935), OF 84, COURTNEY STREET, HULL.  A RULLYMAN AND FORMER RECKITTS WORKER. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1908. HUSBAND AND EDITH ELIZABETH DOSDILL, OF 10 WILLOW GROVE, SOMERSET STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 54, CHESTNUT GROVE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL (CW […]

BORN HULL BRIDGE, TICKTON, 1891. SON OF LEVI AND JANE ANN NICHOLSON, OF SWINEMOOR, GATE HOUSE, BEVERLEY (CWGC ADDRESS). A LABOURER. AND SON OF A LABOURER. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 18/04/1915. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 3088, WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. KILLED IN THE TRENCHES, ON 03/07/1915, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECT […]

BORN 1895. SON OF CLARA THORLEY, OF 17 CHERRY TREE TERRACE, BEVERLEY (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/07/1915, AGED 20. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BEVERLEY WAR MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL GARDENS. HE IS BURIED AT R.E. FARM CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS […]

Born Hull 1894. Enlisted 1914. Son of James & Charlotte Stock, of 87 Brunswick Avenue, Hull, (CWGC address). His father was a former Sergeant with the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers. Educated at Park Road school, who knitted him a scarf when enlisted. His genial disposition endeared him to all in military and local football circles […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF EMMA HOYLES, 28 STUDLEY STREET, HULL. HIS SISTER ALICE HOYES LIVED AT 70, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). A FORMER IRONMONGER. HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY IN HULL ON 02/03/1912. HE WAS SERVING IN THE 4TH EYR WHEN WAR BEGAN. WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 08/07/1915, AGED 26. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HI […]

BORN BEVERLEY, 1897. SON OF ROBERT WILLIAM WILLIAMSON (1859-1918) AND AGNES WILLIAMSON (1868-1944), OF BISHOP BURTON.  A CHURCH LAD'S BRIGADE MEMBER IN BEVERLEY AND THE FIRST TO BE KILLED IN THE WAR. ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY IN 1914. SERVED WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD, BY A SNIPER, ON 05/07/1915, AGED 18. UNMARRI […]