Location: Strand Military Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium

BORN BEVERLEY 1881. SON OF ANNA ELIZABETH BRUCE. EX GARDENER. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY, ON 10/05/1916, AGED 35 YEARS AND 4 MONTH. HE WAS 5 FOOT, 8.5 INCHES TALL. SERVED AS GUNNER, 77909, IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY,(156TH HEAVY BATTERY). TRAINED AT ALDERSHOT, HAMPSHIRE. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 25/05/1917, AGED 36. HE DIED TEN DAYS LATER, […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE GEORGE EDWARD CHAMBERS 28047. George was born Swinderb, in Lincolnshire, in 1876. He lived at 2 Hannah Terrace, St Pauls Street with his common law wife, Edith Eastburn. His mother and father had passed away and his only other living relative was a sister. He worked as a coal porter (1911 Census). He enl […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF THOMAS MALTON MEADLEY (1864-1922) & MARGARET ANN TAYLOR (1868-1942), AT 129 WINCOLMLEE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ENLISTED HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 17/04/1915. HE SERVED IN "C" COMPANY, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, 29/07/1915, AGED 19, AT PLOEGSTEERT. UNMARRIED. HE LEFT SIBLINGS JANE AND GEORGE […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF CHARLES FRANCIS & ANNIE NIX, OF DRYPOOL, HULL. HIS WIFE ELSIE MAY NIX, LIVED AT 2, STORY STREET, HULL, 16, ALASKA STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL AND 63, HODGSON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS EMPLOYED AT RECKITT'S CANNSTER WORKS FOR NINE YEARS. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FR […]