Sergeant
BORN DRIFFIELD 1890. SON OF DAVID EDWARD BOURNER (1854-1899) & MARY ANN ROBSON (1858-1940), OF 20 CHESTNUT AVENUE, PARK ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS & PARISH MAGAZINE). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. FOUR BROTHERS SERVED IN THE WAR. THREE OF THEM WERE KILLED. GEORGE BOURNER WAS A SINGLE MAN. HE WORKED AS A CRANE DRIVER, F […]
BORN MIDDLESBOROUGH, 1893. SON OF MARGARET SCOTT (1865-1926) & THOMAS PARNELL CLARE, OF 7, BELTS PLACE, HUMBER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER AND FISH BOX MAKER. HE LIVED AT ALBERT DOCK TAVERN, ENGLISH STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 3 […]
2nd Lieutenant
BORN BRIGHTON, SUSSEX 1880. LIVED HULL. SON OF WILLIAM COWAN CURRIE & MARGARET MATHILDA DRYSDALE, 179 NEW BRIDGE ROAD, HULL. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER SERVING WITH THE 17TH LANCERS. MARRIED MARIE ALLINE REVELL (1883-1961), ON 27/02/1907, AT COLABA, BOMBAY INDIA. HIS WIFE MARIE LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS IN HULL. HE SERVED AS A SECOND LI […]
BORN HULL 1882. SON OF MARGARET LETITIA LAWRENCE (1861-1915) & ROBERT PENISTON GRAY (1859-1914). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, JOSEPH HAROLD GRAY, AT 13 JAMES STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. BOTH HIS PARENTS DECEASED. HE MARRIED EMILY CLAPPISON (1884-1958), AT HOLY TRINITY, HULL, ON 25TH OCTOBER 1906. HIS WIFE, EMILY GRAY, LIVED 3 ADA'S AVEN […]
2nd Lieutenant
BORN HULL 09/12/1894. SON OF WILLIAM ISSAC CHAPMAN KING POMFREY (1868-1942) & SELINA DAWSON (1868-1929). KNOWN AS ARTHUR POMFREY. THIRD OF THREE SONS. SON OF A MILLER LABOURER. HE WORKED AS A CLERK IN AN OIL MILL OFFICE. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED AS SERGEANT 11/937, IN THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SERVED IN EGYPT A […]
BORN HULL DECEMBER 1881. SON OF GEORGE TURNBULL (1851-1917) AND ELIZABETH LINFOOT (1851-1901), OF 18, CAROLINE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 29, LOCKWOOD STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HIS PARENTS WERE DECEASED AND HE LIVED WITH HIS OLDER SISTER MRS ELIZABETH ELLEN BURTON AT 25, CAROLINE STREET, HULL. WORKED AS A […]
