BORN WILLERBY 1885. SON OF JAMES DOBOSN & DOROTHY DOBSON (1852-1929). THIRD OF EIGHT CHILDREN. MARRIED IN HULL, IN 1907. HUSBAND OF FLORENCE PURDON, OF THIS ADDRESS (1918 ABSENT VOTERS). A RAILWAY SIGNALMAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX 24866, 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.. TRANSFERRED TO THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE LABOUR CORPS. DIED AT CHEST […]
2nd Lieutenant
BORN HULL 1896. SON OF GEORGE MANSFIELD (1857-1918) & EMILY BEST (1865-1928), OF 5 GROVESNOR TERRACE HORNSEA. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL & EMPLOYED AT THE HULL OIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY. ENLISTED AUGUST 1914 & JOINED THE HULL COMMERCIALS. HE SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED. COMM […]
Private
BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF JOHN WILCOCKSON & ADA WILCOCKSON, AT THIS 1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS. A FORMER SHIPPING CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN THE 10TH EYR (HULL PALS). TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST BATTALION, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/04/1918, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, DORIS I MILLWARD, WHO HE […]
