Area: Alexandra Road

BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF CHARLES CUTHBERT & JANE ELIZABETH EAST, OF 18 ALEXANDRA CRESCENT, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. PRIOR TO WAR, HE WORKED AS A CLERK, IN THE OFFICES OF BLUNDELL SPENCE AND COMPANY AND TOOK AN ACTIVE PART IN THE NEWLAND BROTHERHOOD CONGRGATIOONAL CHURCH. HE ENLISTED ON 21/12/1915. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7 INCHES TALL, […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF GEORGE GLEDHILL GILL (1860-1913) & ELIZA ANN GILL, OF 132, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 12, VANCOUVER TERRACE, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED ON 11/07/1917, AGED 23. LISTED ON THE COTTINGHAM ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS BROTHER, ALFRED GILL, MM, FORMERLY , 10/798, 1OTH EYR, TRANSFERRED […]

Born Hull 1898. Son of George Gledhill Gill (1860-1913) and Bertha Kelling (1862-1902), of George Street, Cottingham, Yorkshire (War Pension Address). Son of a Lithographer. One of six children. A Butcher's Errand Boy. He enlisted in Hull. Formerly, Private, 789, East Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to the 2nd Dublin Fusiliers. Died […]

BORN NORTH FERRIBY, 1897. SON OF FRED & KATE EVA GRAY, GROVE HILL, HESSLE. LIVED IN HULL AT TIME OF ENLISTMENT. MILK BOY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. DIED OF WOUNDS 25/04/1918, AGED 21. BURIED HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY. COMMEMORATED ON THE ST JOHNS CHURCH ROLL OF HOUR, NEWALNDS, HULL HIS NAM […]

BORN HULL 1892. YOUNGEST SON OF FRANCIS HALL (1860-1930) & MARY JANE REED (1859-1906), OF 61 ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (PROBATE ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SIITERS. HIS FATHER WAS A BUILDER AND HE WORKED FOR HIM AS A BRICKLAYER. BEFORE THE WAR HE SERVED WITH THE 5TH EYR (CYLISTS) TERRITORIALS AND WAS CALLED UP WHEN WAR BEGA […]

BORN THORNTON DALE 19/07/1882. SON OF FRED HAYNES (1857-1920) & ELIZABETH JANE ADCOCK (1857-1920). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, JOHN AND ONE SISTER, ELSIE. MARRIED ON 08/02/1903. HIS WIFE, GERTRUDE NEALE 1878-1964) AND TWO CHILDREN (ELSIE & FRED), LIVED AT 22, ALEXANDRA CRESCENT, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A PAINT […]

BORN HULL 1886. SECOND SON OF HERBERT LACY HOLDERNESS & EMILY BLACKBURN OF 44 , ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (CWGC AND PROBATE ADDRESS). WORKED FOR HIS FATHER AS A JOURNALIST FOR THE DRIFFIELD OBSERVER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 8 INCHES TALL, 33 INCH CHEST, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. VERY GOOD CHARACTER. HE ENLISTED IN DRIFFIELD 13/08/1914. POST […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF DANIEL HOPPER (1860-1935) & AMELIA STOWE OVERTON (1862-1920), OF 31, MAPLE STREET, HULL AND 70, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL, (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF 10 CHILDREN. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS. A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY MESSENGER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 1739, 1/4TH EYR. TRANSF […]

BORN POPLAR, EAST LONDON, 06/09/1884. SON OF PETER (1849-1911) AND ALICE JACK (852-1939), OF 46 LIDDELL STREET, HULL AND 85 , ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). BROTHER TO THOMAS WILLIAM, PETER, GEORGE, JOSEPH, WALTER, AND MARY JACK. A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED INTO THE 3RD (GARRISON BATTALION) NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIER. DIED OF PNE […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF ROBERT & FRANCES JEFFREY AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES, ON 02/05/1915, AGED 18. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE 'HULL TIMES' ON 22/05/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH AND ON 22/09/1916. * IT IS REPORTED THAT SERVING AT THE SAME ADDRESS WAS PTE, DAN HOPPER, 4TH EYR WHO DIED OF WOUNDS, IN 1915, AGED 20 […]

BORN HULL 1896. ARMY ADDRESS ABOVE, NEWLAND. AN APPRENTICE WATCH MAKER AT BRANTON'S JEWELLERS, CARR LANE. HE RESIDED WITH HIS MOTHER ELLEN JONES ABOVE. HE WAS PREVIOUSLY TWICE WOUNDED. HIS DEATH & PHOTOGRAPH ARE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 10TH OCTOBER 1918.* Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE PHILIP GEOFFREY JONES 21970. Born i […]

BORN MUSTON HALL, FILEY, YORKS, 1889.  SON OF HANNAH NICHOLSON (1849-1936) & THE LATE WILLIAM HUTCHINSON RUSSELL (1843-1916), AT 1, ALEXANDRA CRESCENT, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HE WAS UNMARRIED. WORKED IN THE BALLIFF COUNTY COURT (1911 CENSUS) AND AS A FARM LABOURER (ARMY RECORDS). DES […]

BORN HULL 22/05/1896. SON OF JOHN EDWARD SMITH (1855-1942) & MARY WISE (1855-1934), OF 65 ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF AN INSURANCE AGENT. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. A BANK CLERK BEFORE THE WAR. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 26TH ROYAL FUSILIERS (BANKERS BATTALION). H […]

BORN HULL 1899. ELDEST SON OF FREDERICK SPENCE (1866-1966) & EMMA SPENCE, OF 11, WASHINGTON STREET, HULL AND 21, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). BROTHER FRANK AND HAROLD. SISTER FLORENCE. WORKED AS AN APPRENTICE PAINTER, LIVING AT 11 WASHINGTON STREET. DECRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 119 LBS WEIGHT, 35-37 INCH CHEST, CHURCH […]

BORN MOLESCROFT, BEVERLEY, YORKSHIRE 1894. SON OF RICHARD GEORGE USHER (1866-1954) AND ANNIE STEELE (1870-1901), OF 4 MONA AVENUE, CAVE STREET HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE LIVED WITH HIS WIFE ROSINA MAY USHER AT 5 ALEXANDRA CRESCENT, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). THEY HAD NO CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A PAINT WORKS, LABLER (1911) AND SALESMA […]

BORN LIVERPOOL 06/11/1895. SON OF THOMAS HARRY VOLLER & EMMA VOLLER, OF 18 , ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A WARDEN AT HULL PRISON. EDUCATED IN SHEFFIELD HE WORKED AS A CLERK FOR LLOYDS BANK (SHEFFIELD BRANCH). ALSO RESIDED IN IPSWHICH, SUFFOLK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 15/12/1915. SERVED IN THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS. P […]

SON OF LATE WILLIAM WARD. HULL HEROES WEB SITE. NO CWGC OR SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS.

HENRY WOGDEN 12/112 was born Newington, Hull April 1879. Son of  Henry and Jane Wogden (1837-1923), of 11, Isabella Terrace, Lorne Street, Hull (1911 Census) and 18, Rodney Street, Hull (Army records address). His father had been a Juvenile criminal sentenced to 3 months aged 15, for cattle stealing. Henry himself had been on trial aged […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF JAMES WRIGHT (1847-1905) AND EMMA WRIGHT (1857-1918), OF 97 NEWLAND AVENUE AND 62, ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. PRIOR TO ENLISTING, HE WAS A BARMAN FOR TEN YEARS AT THE CRITERION PUB, HESSLE ROAD, HULL AND ALSO WORKED AS A MOTOR DRIVER. UNMARRIED. HE LIVED AT […]

BORN HULL 1892. THIRD SON OF JAMES STATHER WRIGHT (1849-1905( AND EMMA WOODS (1856-1918), OF  52 BRIDLINGTON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 62 , ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. THIRD OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A BARBERS ASSISTANT. LIVING AT 62 ALEXANDRA ROAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 27153,  EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE […]