Area: Beverley,

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF FREDERICK JAMES ASHBY & HARRIET ANN ASHBY GRASSAN, OF 8 WILLOW GROVE, BEVERLEY (1911 CENSUS) AND THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SON OF A BICYCLE MAKER. THE FAMILY LIVD AT 9 DUESBURY STREET, HULL (1901)  AND RAN A BICYCLE REPAIR BUSINESS AT 43 PARAGON STREET, HULL. HE WAS EDUCATED AT SPENCER STREET COUNCIL SCHOOL AND WON […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1896. ONLY SON OF DR. JOHN ELFORD BAILEY (1865-1923) & KATE ELEANOR BODLEY, AT NORTH BAR, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING (HDM ADDRESS -27/09/1917). EDUCATED IN SURREY. JOINED THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED IN JULY 1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/09/1917, AGED 21. HIS DEATH WAS REPOR […]

BORN FELTHORPE, NORFOLK, 1893. SON OF JAMES AND GRACE SELINA BARNEY, OF FELTHORPE, NORFOLK. HE HAD 4 BROTHERS AND 7 SISTERS. TWO SISTERS WERE MARRIED AND LIVING IN BEVERLEY. EMPLOYED AS A BRICKLAYER AND FARM WORKER AT NEW HOLLAND FARM, TICKTON. HIS ARMY RECORD, DESCRIBED HIM, AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 34-36 INCH CHEST, 123 LBS WEIGH […]

BORN LITTLE WEIGHTON, ROWLEY, YORKSHIRE, 1892. SON OF ALFRED BARTRAM (1838-1912) AND EMILY STEPHENSON (1854-1921). SON OF A FARMER. ONE OF 3 BOYS AND 6 SISTERS. A FARMER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS GUNNER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 09/12/1917, AGED 25. LEFT £812 TO HIS SISTER, MARY HOULTON, (WIFE OF HENRY HOUL […]

BORN HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKS. SON OF THE REV. ARCHIBALD BAYLISS & MARY JANE BAYLISS, RECTOR OF BEVERLEY WESLEYAN CHAPEL. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE COTTINGHAM METHODIST CHURCH WW1 PLAQUE.

BORN BEVERLEY. SON OF MARMADUKE & MARY HANNAH BENTLEY, LONG LANE, BEVERLEY. EX FISH & GAME DEALER. HDM 21/5/17

Born Beverley 1896. Resided Beverley. Son of Francis Best. Apprentice to chartered accountant. An Accountant's clerk (1914) Enlisted at Hull, August 1914. Served with the 2nd/1st East Riding Yeomanry. Suffered stomach wound on 13th November 1917, he died at Deir Senaid CCS & was buried near Jerusalem, aged 21. Awarded the VM/BWM/ […]

SON OF RIBY BIRCH AND MARY ELIZABETH BIRCH, AT 19 BECKSIDE, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING (CWGC ADDRESS). ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SERVED IN THE 4TH YORKSHIRE REIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION ON 25/04/1917, AGED 35. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON BEVERLEY'S WW1 MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL GARDENS. James 'Jim' Birch was born in Beve […]

BORN 1894. SON OF MARY & THE LATE ROBERT BLYTH, OF 3 MUSGRAVES YARD, TOLL YARD, BEVERLEY (CWGC ADDRESS). AN APPRENTICE JOINER. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED AS A PRIVATE IN THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 17/09/1916, AGED 22. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE BEVERLEY ME […]

Born Beverley, 1895. Known as "Jim". Son of Esther and the late S. Botterill, of 4 Norwood Far Grove, Beverley, Yorks. His father was named Snowball Botterill and had died in 1911. He enlisted in Beverley. Served with the 12th Hull Pals. He died of wounds on 15/11/1916, aged 21. His name is recorded on the Beverley WW1 memorial, with […]

Born Beverley, 1890. Known as "JACK". Son of Esther and the late S. Botterill, of Beverley, Yorks. His father was named Snowball Botterill and had died in 1911. He worked as a farm, plough boy. Enlisted in Driffield. Ex.17601, East Yorks Regiment. His name is recorded on the Beverley WW1 Memorial and the Norwood Street Memorial, with h […]

SON OF ALFRED & PHOEBE ANN BOYES, OF 17 WILBERT GROVE, BEVERLEY. JOINED THE BEVERLEY TERRITORIALS. DEATH REPORTED IN HDM 31/07/1917.

BORN WOKING, SURREY, 1888. MARRIED MABEL FIRTH 1910. RESIDED BEVERLEY. PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. ENLISTED ALDERSHOT. KILLD IN ACTION. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BEVERLEY WW1 MEMORIAL. Frederick Boylett was born in 1888 in Woking, Surrey, one of ten children born to James and Elizabeth Boylett. In 1910 Frederick had married Mabel Firth in […]

BORN ROTSEA, DRIFFIELD, YORKSHIRE,  1893. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM BOYNTON (1863-1943) & JANE BURKES ROE (1867-1946). HE HAD EIGHT BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. A HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY WORKER. HE RESIDED IN BEVERLEY. ENLISTED IN DRIFFIELD, SERVED WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS AT THE SOMME, ON 22/07/1916, AGED 23.HIS […]

BORN BEVERLEY, 1897. ONLY SON OF KATE BRADY, OF BURGESS YARD, BEVERLEY. ELDEST OF THREE CHILDREN.  HIS MOTHER WAS FROM DUBLIN, IRELAND AND A WIDOWED CHAR WOMAN. HE WORKED AS AN APPRENTICE BRICKLAYER (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 2330 YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 1/4TH YORK AND LANCASTER […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRANK BRAITHWAITE 225415. Born in 1898, Frank was the seventh of ten children to George and Susannah Braithwaite of 7 Butcher Row, Beverley. Enlisting in his hometown he was sent to the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 2nd Hull Pals, in the trenches of the Western Front. He was killed in action on […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1887. SON OF SARAH (MEGSON) & WILLIAM RICHARDSON BREWER, ST MARTINS, BEVERLEY. BRICKLAYERS ASSISTANT AT EAST RIDING ASYLUM WORKER. Frank Brewer: 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. Frank Brewer was born in Beverley and was employed at the hospital as a bricklayer’s assistant. He was killed in action in France on 9th Apr […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM HIRST BRIGGS 10/218. Born 1897, the second of three children, and only son of William and Blanche Briggs of Newbegin House, Beverley. William was one of the original Pals, enlisting in the early days of September 1914 and a veteran of Egypt, the Somme and Oppy Wood when he was killed in action on […]