Location: Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), West-Vlaandern, Belgium

BORN SANDAL, WAKEFIELD 1877. WIFE ELIZABETH BOLTON & 2 SONS LIVED AT 10 BELENHEIM STREET, HULL. A CLERK ACCOUNTANT (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A BOMBARDIER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 01/06/1917, AGED 39. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 06/07/1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE L […]

BORN WAKEFIELD 1894. SON OF CATHERINE GILL (1862-1951) & WALTER CLAPHAM (1858-1903) AT 3, KINGSTON SQUARE, CHARLES STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). BROTHER TO WILFRED AND OLIVE CLAPHAM. HIS FATHER WAS ONE TIME MEMBER OF WAKEFIELD CITY COUNCIL. ALAN WAS EDUCATED AT MONASTRY COLLEGE, AMPLEFORTH, NORTH YORKSHIRE. HE WAS ARTICLED WIT […]

Born Sproatley, East Yorkshire, 1891. Gunner 2392. 1st (East Riding) Battery, 2nd (Northumbrian) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 14th February 1916, aged 25 years. Husband of Ethel M Fox. Commemorated Railway Dugouts Burial Ground. III.A.7. His widow, Ethel, (born 26/04/1890), lived at 119, Selby Street, Hull (War Pensi […]

BORN HULL 13/10/1892. YOUNGEST SON OF CHARLES JOULES (1847-1919) & MARY ANN BUTLER (1851-1918), OF 14 HARCOURT STREET, HULL. ONE OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN, SEVERAL OF WHICH DIED IN INFANCY. THE FAMILY ALSO LIVED AT 61 ABBEY STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR, HE WORKED AS AN APPRENTICE JOINER, FOR MESSRS HARRISON & CO, HOLDERNESS ROAD. […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF WALTER ERNEST & SARAH J KAYE AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIEMNT. DIED AT YPRES, ON 19/06/1917, AGED 20. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, SARAH. HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "IN LOVING MEMORY DIED OF WOUNDS THY WILL BE DONE FROM M […]

April 1888 • Banham, Norfolk, England. Formerly in the employ of Mr. J. Scott of Burnby Wold. Enlisted Pocklington. Served as Private, 2544, George Kemp, with the 5th Yorkshire Regiment. Killed in action on 18th February 1916 aged 28. Former farm foreman. Commemorated at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground.

BORN HULL 1884. HOLY TRINITY WARD. A LABOURER STONE MASON. BOARDED AT THIS ADDRESS WITH THE WHITE FAMILY (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED HULL.SERVED AS CORPORAL, 5547 WITH ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, 104TH BRIGADE, 'C' BATTERY BURIED AT RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM). HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT"

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF JOHN PINDER, OF 33 SILVESTER STREET, HULL. WIFE FLORENCE & ONE CHILD. A FORMER BLACKSMITH. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN "A" COMPANY. 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED ON 26/02/1916, AGED 32. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 25TH MAY 1916 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. * HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE E […]

BORN HULL 1897. THIRD SON OF KARL FREDERICK MAX RAETTIG (1864-1938) & EDITH BELL (1870-1946), OF 12 DEE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. THEIR FATHER WAS FROM WITTENBERG, GERMANY AND A NATURALISED BRITISH CITIZEN. HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO CHARLES RAETIGG. JOHN RAETTIG ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER, WITH THE […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF JOSEPH SEDGEWICK (1868-1940) & THE LATE MARGARET JONES (1857-1918), OF 10 GROSVENOR TERRACE, GROSVENOR STREET, HULL. SISTERS MABEL & HILDA. AND BROTHER, HARRY. SON OF A POULTRY DRESSER. BEFORE THE WAR WAS A CRANE DRIVER, FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. HE ENLISTED IN THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND […]

BORN HULL 25/07/1894. SON OF ISAAC AND ROSIE SHALGOSKY, OF 30 NILE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A GENERAL CLERK AND WINE CRUSH MAKER (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 22/11/1915 AND RECALLED TO SERVICE ON 22/01/1916. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT 9 INCHES TALL, 34 INCH CHEST, 140 L […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF WILLIAM SHANN & ELIZABETH SADLER. MARRIED IN 1900. HIS WIFE ELSIE HARLAND SHANN AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN LIVED AT 3 ISABELLA TERRACE, YORK STREET, HULL & AT 70 NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS AN OIL MILLER. ENLISTED HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 24/10/1915. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST […]

BORN BROUGH, YORKS 1887. SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM SKEVINGTON (1857-1937) & ANNIE MOISLEY (1861-1938), OF 1 BOSWELL AVENUE, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL.  ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. SEVERAL DIED IN INFANCY. EMPLOYED AS AN ASSISTANT AT A PROFESSIONAL GOLF CLUB IN ELLOUGHTON. HE ENLISTED IN DEWSBURY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 15586, ARMY CYCLIST CORPS. TRANSFE […]

BORN SCULLCOATES, HULL, 1885. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM TRAVES TUNNICLIFFE (1858- ) & HANNAH COLREIN (1867-1897), OF 12, JAMES RECKITT AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL. WORKED AS A SAWMILL LABOURER IN A SHIP YARD. LODGED WITH HIS SISTER ELIZABETH, AT 20, RICHMOND TERRACE, KENT STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND AT 217, JAMES RECKITT AVENUE, HULL. ENLIS […]