Area: Beverley,

Born Beverley 1894. Son of Clara and William Danby, of 11, Cherry Tree Terrace, Grovehill Road, Beverley. (CWGCAddress). He was the second of five sons. Worked at Wilfholme Farm, Kilnwick, Cranswick, Beverley, as a horseman. He enlisted in Beverley. Formerly, Private, 22163, East Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred as Private, 43653, Labour […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1893. SON OF THOMAS AND ELIZA DAVISON, OF 10 TRINITY LANE, BEVERLEY. A COAL PORTER. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 2028, 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/02/1916, AGED 22. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MTHER, ELIZA. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE BEVERLEY'S WW1 MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL GARDENS. HE IS BU […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1893. SON OF FRANK AND ELIZA BETSY DAWSON (1868-1946), OF 5 LADYGATE, BEVERLEY, (CWGC ADDRESS) ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. WORKED AS A PLATER. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 1348, 5TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 20/09/1916, AGED 21. HE IS BURIED AT DERNACOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1895. SON OF FRANK AND ELIZA BETSY DAWSON (1868-1946), OF 5 LADYGATE, BEVERLEY, (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED AS CORPORAL, 10025, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 21.COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS BROTHER, ARTHUR CYRIL DAWSON, HAD DIED OF WOUNDS FIVE DAYS E […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1887. SON OF CHARLES HENRY TANN (1857-1917) AND FANNY DAY. HE MARRIED DAISY MAY WELBURN (1893-1968), AT BEVERLEY, IN 1910. THEY LIVED AT 14 ST ANDREW STREET, BEVERLEY, WITH THEIR THREE SONS, EDWARD, CHARLES AND ROY. EMPLOYED AS A TANNER'S LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY, WITH JOHN DAVIS. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 1507, YORKSHI […]

George William Dayes was born in Beverley on 7 September 1892, the eldest son of Herbert and Harriet Dayes. He lived in Hotham, where he worked as a farm cowman. He enlisted in Hull. When war was declared George enlisted in the West Yorkshire Regiment, and, serving with the 2nd Battalion which became part of the 23rd Brigade of the 8th […]

BORN SCAMPSTON, YORKSHIRE, 1895. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM AND JANE ANN DICKENSON, OF 83, MINSTER MOORGATE, BEVERLEY. HE ENLISTED AT MALTON. SERVED WITH THE 6TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/09/1916, AGED 21. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON BEVERLEY'S "MEMORIAL HALL" ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS NAME IS ALSO LISTED ON THE BEVERLEY'S WW1 MEMORIAL, […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1884. SON OF FERDINAND & ELIZABETH DREWERY OF GROSVENOR HOUSE, CARTWRIGHT STREET, BEVERLEY. (ARMY RECORD ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. A SINGLE MAN. WORKED FOR WHITING TANNER'S AS A LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY ON 29/05/1916, AGED 31 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5 INCHES TALL, 38 INCH C […]

BORN MOLESCROFT, YORKS 1894. SON OF GEORGE (1866-1953) & MARGARET DUNN, OF BEVERLEY AND 21, ARTHUR STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A FARM FOREMAN. HE WORKED AS A HORSEMAN ON A FARM. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, WATSON DUNN WHO WORKED WITH HIM. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 26/11/1914. SERVED WITH THE 1ST COLDSTREAM GUARD […]

Thanks to Peter Bonner, WW1 Lives Project, Beverley, No: 540, for the following: Sergeant Robert Durkin, aged 37, was killed in action on April 27th 1918, towards the end of the Battle of the Lys. His body was never recovered and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial at Zonnebecke in Belgium. The German attack on allied posit […]

Private, George Henry Eldon, No. 19332, 6th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to the Labour Corps, Reg No. 398086. Previously served in the South African Campaign. Born: Beverley 1874. Son of Charles Eldon & Sarah Ann Scruton, of Keldgate, Beverley. Son of a cow keeper. He had two brothers and three sisters. George married El […]

Eldest son of W. H. and Elizabeth Elwell, of Beverley; husband of Minnie Elwell, of 40, Conway Rd., Cardiff. Listed on the Beverley War Memorial. Buried at CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE READS, "BELOVED HUSBAND OF MINNIE ELWELL A NOBLE END TO A LIFE WELL RUN."

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ERNEST FORD 10044. Born June 1899, the second of three children to John and Dinah Ford, Ernest was perhaps destined for the army; it was in his blood. The 1901 Census has him a one-year-old living at Victoria Barracks in Beverley where his dad worked as an Orderly Room Sergeant in the Manchester and Lanca […]

BORN BEVERLEY 25/10/1888. SON OF HENRY (HARRY) FORTES ( 1854-1931) AND MARY KIDD SPENCER (1854-1926), OF 4 CHARLES PLACE, WILBERT LANE, BEVERLEY. EDUCATED AT BEVERLEY MINSTER SCHOOL. HE JOINED THE ARMY ON 20/11/1903 AGED 15. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. MARRIED LOUISA MAUD KENT (1885-1958) AT SHORNCLIFFE CAMP, KENT, ON 2 […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1893. SON OF ALBERT EDWARD FOX & MARIA STEPHENSON, OF BEVERLEY. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HUSBAND OF IDA FOX  (1892-), AT 3 CHANTRY LANE BEVERLEY. THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, DOROTHY MARY FOX, BORN ON 24/11/1911. WORKED AS A FARM LABOURER WITH HIS FATHER. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 18/04/19 […]

BORN BEVERLEY 23/08/1896. SON OF ALBERT EDWARD FOX & MARIA STEPHENSON, OF 15 PRIORY ROAD AND ST ANDREWS STREET, BEVERLEY. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. THIS WAS HIS NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS. HE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY IN 1912. SERVED AS ABLE SEAMAN, ON THE HMS "QUEEN MARY". HIS PHOTO WAS PRINTED IN THE BEVERLEY GUARDIAN WITH T […]

SON OF HENRY THOMAS ABOVE. WIFE GERTRUDE FLORENCE FREEBURY - 63 FULLER STREET, CLEETHORPES. EX 13TH EYR. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 23/12/1918. Henry Freebury : Henry was a cabinet maker at the East Riding Asylum hospital. (Further information on these men can be found in ‘Known unto God’ Beverley and the Great War, B. S. Barnes. […]

BORN BEVERLEY 24/03/1885. SECOND SON OF NIEL AND MARY ANN GALLAGHER (1862-1900), OF 31 HOLME CHURCH LANE, BEVERLEY (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE RESIDED IN THE BEVERLEY MINSTER AREA. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN AND SIX SONS. HIS FATHER WAS FROM COUNTY MAYO AND WORKED AS A TANNER'S LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 12/08/1914. SE […]

Born Kentish Town, Bow, East London 1883. Son of David and Ellen M. Galvin, of 57, Hassett Rd., Homerton, London; He married at Hackney, in 1909. Husband of Rose  Mary Hopper (1886-1959), of 5, School Lane, Walkergate, Beverley, Yorks. They had daughters, Constance and Leana and sons, Charles and Terrence. A Professional Soldier, bef […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1895. SON OF WILLIAM THOMAS & MARGARET ANN GILLYON OF  57 KELDGATE, BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, MACHINE GUN CORPS 150TH. APPRENTICE HOUSE PAINTER. Commemorated: Etaples Cemetery, France Ref: XI, B, 2A East Yorkshire Regiment section (1/4th Bn.) of the 1914-1918 memorial in the Beverley Minster. Memorial Hall, Beverle […]