Location: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

BORN SOUTH HEIGHAM, NORWICH 1884. SON OF JOHN SAMUEL WOODROW (1846-1923) & FRANCES (KILLIGREW) WOODROW, AT 5, COZENS ROAD, THORPE, NORWICH (1911 CENSUS) AND 9, ST GEORGES AVENUE, BOURNEMOUTH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A MACHINE PAINTER. HE HAD ALSO SERVED 8 YEARS WITH THE NO […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1890. SON OF JOHN EDWARD WOODTHORPE AND ISABELLA DAVIS. A LABOURER. ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED AS A PRIVATE IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 26. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ISABELLA. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE B […]

BORN HULL 1891. LIVED YORK. ENLISTED WARWICK. SON OF THOMAS & FAITH WREGHITT ABOVE ADDRESS (1901 CENSUS). HE MOVED TO 1 PARADISE STREET, COVENTRY TO BECOME A MOTOR DRIVER. ENLISTED WARWICK. EX 4436 WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION ON 18/10/1916, AGED 25

BORN BERMONDSEY 04/11/1887. SON OF JOHN WELBOURNE WRIDE (1853-1891) AND ALICE MAUD JOHNSON (1858-1892), OF 14 EAST STREET, HULL (1891 CENSUS).  MARRIED TO ADA TAYLOR & THREE CHILDREN AT, 3 LENDAL TERRACE, DURHAM STREET, HULL. (PENSION ADDRESS). WORKED AS A TRAM DRIVER FOR FIVE YEARS, ON THE HOLDERNESS ROAD, TRAM CARS. DESCRIBED AS […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JARVIS WRIGHT (1860-1916) & ELIZABETH SEARSON, OF 83, REGENT STREET, HULL. BROTHER TO HENRY AND LAURA. HE WORKED AS A BARMAN BEFORE THE WAR. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS MOTHER. HE IS COMMEMO […]

BORN WEST HARTLEPOOL 1897. SON OF THE MARY E & LATE WILLIAM J WRIGHT. BROTHERS CLAUDE AND ALBERT E & SISTER MAUD WRIGHT. HE WAS A BUTCHER, LIVING AT 3 CRYSTAL VILLAS, VICTOR STREET. EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, JOHN ENGLISH & CO., HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 12/12/1915. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. […]

BORN HULL, 1872. SON OF JAMES WRIGHT AND CAROLINE SMITH. EX DOCK LABOURER. SINGLE MAN. LIVED AT 18 NEVILLE'S TERRACE, VAUXHALL GROVE, HULL WITH HIS MOTHER (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 4016, EYR. HIS ARMY RECORDS STATE THAT HE WAS BORN IN GLASGOW. THE CENSUS RECORDS STATE THAT HE WAS BORN IN HULL. HE SER […]

PRIVATE SAMUEL ESMOND WRIGHT 10/1370. Born Hull, 1897, Samuel was the youngest of five children, to Samuel (1858- 1986) and Lily Hodgson (1864-1929), of 9, Pleasant Place, Walker Street, Hull and 8, Pretoria Avenue, Edinburgh Street, Hull (War Pension address). He enlisted at City Hall, originally in the 10th Battalion before being trans […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF WILLIAM AND CLARA WRIGHT, OF 28  PARK VILLAS, COTTINGHAM, HULL. ASSISTANT SCHOOL MASTER AT NORTON COUNCIL SCHOOL, IN MALTON. SECRETARY OF THE MALTON, RIFLE CLUB. A MEMBER OF THE ST JOHN'S AMBULANCE BRIGADE. MEMBER OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH CHOIR. SERVED AS SECOND LIEUTENANT, IN THE 17TH WELSH FUSILIERS. KILLED I […]

BORN BRIDLINGTON 1877. SON OF JOHN WROOT (1848-1934) & JANE ANN DANBY (1853-1894), OF 6. BEEHIVE COTTAGE, BRIDLINGTON. HE MARRIED FLORENCE ADA ROGERS, IN 1901. HE HAD WORKED AS A RAILWAY SHUNTER, FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS SINCE APRIL, 1910, IN WEST HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS, WITH […]

BORN HULL 1879. SON OF MARY ELIZABETH WYATT (1861-1930) OF 55, GIBSON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 296, WINCOLMLEE, HULL (ARMY RECORS ADDRESS). HIS FATHER UNKNOWN. HIS MOTHER HAD MARRIED THREE TIMES. HE HAD THREE HALF BROTHERS AND TWO HALF SISTERS. HE MARRIED, SARAH ANN EDWARDS (1880-1929), AT ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH, HULL, ON 27/0 […]