Area: Beverley,

BORN BEVERLEY 1897. SON OF FREDRICK DALTON & SARAH JANE GILLYON ABOVE. SISTERS HARRIET, ETHEL & LIZ & BROTHER FRED ALBERT GILLYON.

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 […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1869. SON OF GODFREY GILLYON (1834-1907) & ANN GRAY (1845-1903), 0F 56 BECKSIDE, BEVERLEY.  A DOCK LABOURER AND SEAM. HE COMPETED IN THE MARINER SPORTS SPCIETY RACES FOR YEARS AND APPEARED IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. HE MARRIED AT BEVERLEY, ON 08/11/1891. HIS WIFE, SARAH GRIFFIN (1870-1942), LIVED 23 RICHARD COOPER STREET, […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1894. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM & ELIZABETH GLEADHILL, OF THIS CWGC ADDRESS. ONE OF SIX SONS, FIVE OF WHICH SERVED IN THE ARMY DURING THE WAR. A MILK MAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 03/10/1918, AGED 24. HE IS BURIED AT GUIZANCOURT FARM CEMETERY, GOUY. […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1896. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM GLEADHILL & ELIZABETH HARDY, OF THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SON OF A CHALK PIT LABOURER. ONE OF SIX SONS, FIVE OF WHICH SERVED IN THE ARMY DURING THE WAR. A PRINTER'S ERRAND BOY. HE LIVED IN BEVERLEY. ENLISTED MANCHESTER. SERVED WITH THE 19TH MANCHESTER REGIMENT. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 23/07/1916, A […]

C. T. Goforth, No. 44003, Private Charles Thomas Goforth, 18th Bn. Durham Light Infantry. Born: Beverley, son of Mr & Mrs F. B. Robinson, 104 Keldgate. Enlisted: Hull. Killed in Action: 28th March 1918. Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France (bay 8); Durham Light Infantry section of the 1914-1918 memorial in the Beverley Minster. Memorial […]

F. Goforth, No. 3972, Private Frederick Goforth, 1/5 th Bn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales, s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Born: Beverley, son of Mrs Aaron Lazenby, 107 Lairgate, Beverley, and nephew of Miss S. Goforth, 6 Hinds Yard, Keldgate. Enlisted: Beverley. Died of Wounds: 16th September 1916, aged 19. Commemorated: Heilly Station Cemete […]

BORN HULL 1892. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE OLD TOWN MEMORIAL. HIS PARENTS LIVED AT 19 MYTON GATE, HULL. HE MARRIED MRS E R (DUNKLEY) IN HULL, 1914. THEY LIVED AT 124 HOLME CHURCH, BEVERLEY. HE ENLSITED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND SERVED IN THE DARDENELLES. PREVIOUSLY, HE WORKED AT EARLE'S SHIP YARD AND HE PLAYED IN THE SITWELL STREET S […]

Richard Arthur Grantham was born the 14 November 1877 in Hornsea, the third son of George and Sarah Grantham. On 1 May 1899, Richard married Elizabeth Jane Leighton of Kirton, Lincolnshire at St Mary's Church, Beverley. They lived in Hornsea and had three children; Mabel, Doris and Fred. He worked as a Railway Signalman. Richard entered […]

BORN BEVERLEY. SON OF WILLIAM & MARTHA GREEN OF 52 KELDGATE, BEVERLEY.  HE IS LISTED ON BEVERLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL WITH BROTHER PHIL GREEN WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 28/03/1918, AGED 27. Lt. Frank Green (23) died of his wounds in 1918 after a shell burst in the entrance to the dugout he was in. “He was wonderfully cheer […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1891.SON OF WILLIAM (A PRINTER) & MARTHA GREEN. LISTED ON BEVERLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL WITH HIS BROTHER L/T. FRANK GREEN, 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, KILLED IN ACTION ON 28/12/1917 AGED 23. DEATH REPORTED HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 16/04/1918. He was a clerk, commercial traveller, wholesale seller. A list of Ex-Beverley […]

BORN DOWNHAM MARKET, NORFOLK, 26/06/1888. SON OF CHARLES GROMMETT AND SARAH WALSH. ENLISTED BURY ST EDMUNDS, ON THE 22/10/1907. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER AND SERGEANT IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. MARRIED EDITH COBB, IN BEVERLEY, ON 01/12/1913. HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE THIGH, DURING THE BATTLE OF AISNE. DIED OF TETANUS, ON 27/09/191 […]

BORN ACOMB, YORKSHIRE 1898. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF TOM & E A HAGITT, BEVERLY ADDRESS 1911 CENSUS & THEN WINDSOR. HIS NAME IS INSCRIBED ON THE KIRKELLA WAR MEMORIAL AT ST ANDREWS' CHURCH.

E. Hardy, No. 240839, Private Ernest Hardy, 5th Battalion Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Born: Son of Mrs. M. E. Hardy of 40 Keldgate, Beverley Enlisted: Beverley.Killed in Action: 17th September 1916, aged 34 Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier & Face 3A & 3D) Beverley Minster (Yorkshire Regiment); Bev […]

BORN BEVERLEY. SON OF GEORGE AND JANE HARE, OF BEVERLEY. A MEMBER OF THE VOLUNTEER TERRITORIAL FORCE FROM FEBRUARY 1906. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT YPRES, ON 29/04/1915, AGED 25. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 08/05/1915. HIS BROTHER, DRUMMER, ALFRED HARE WAS WOUNDED AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. HIS NAME IS RECORDED […]

Private Ernest Edward Harrison, No. 19331, 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. Born: Beverley. Enlisted: Beverley. Killed in Action: 14th July 1916 Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier & Face 2C) East Yorkshire Regiment Memorial, Beverley Minster (8 th Bn.) Beverley Memorial, Hengate, Beverley. Keldgate Roll of Honour a […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1892. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SON OF CHARLES & FANNY HARROD, GROVEHILL, BEVERLEY. HE WORKED WITH HIS FATHERS AS A TANNER'S LABOURER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED IN THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 19/07/1917, AGED 25. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 31/07/1918. HIS […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF DANVERS & ELIZABETH HART, HESSLE. WIFE FLORENCE & 4 CHILDREN LIVED ABOVE. HULL HEROES WEBSITE.

BORN BEVERLEY 1894. SON OF GEORGE & ANNIE MAY HARTLEY, OF 7, TYNE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HUSBAND OF LILLIAN HARTLEY, OF 131 WATERLOO STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A FIREMAN FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 12/08/1918, AGE […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1879. SON OF ELLEN HEARON, ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BEVERLEY WW1 MEMORIAL.