BORN MANCHESTER 1875. SON OF WILLIAM & BRIDGET GARVEY. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. LEFT ENGLAND ON 14/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION AT GALLIPOLI, ON 21/08/1915, AGED 40. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM. HIS NAME IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. 21st August 1915 – […]
BORN HULL 1892. Son of Thomas William Hurd & Jane Dixon Campbell; One of seven brothers and two sisters. Married in 1911. Husband of Henrietta Lough Hurd, of 7, Higson's Court, Blanket Row, Hull. Labourer. Enlsited Hull. Ex 27086, eyr. Died of wounds on 22/05/1917, aged 24. Buried at Hedon Road cemetery, Hull.
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BORN SUNDERLAND, 1876. SON OF DOROTHY AND RALPH KITCHEN, OF SUNDERLAND. A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 12/12/1915. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 5331, 2/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. 6 , BLANKET ROW, HULLWAS HIS ARMY ADDRESS. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 26/07/1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST EYR BATTALION. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/04/1917, AGED 37. C […]
BORN HULL 1886. SON OF THOMAS & MARY ELIZABETH LARVIN, OF 3 MARSH STREET AND 73 WAVERLEY STREET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE WAS AN ASSISTANT STEVEDORE, LIVING AT 9 BLANKET ROW, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 08/10/1914. SERVED WITH THE 1ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 11/01/1915, AGED 29. HIS ARM […]
BORN HULL 17/05/1877. SON OF JAMES BROGDEN MARSDEN & MARY MARSDEN, OF 50 BLANKET ROW. HIS FATHER DIED ON 17/10/1889 AND THIS WAS THE FAMILY PROBATE ADDRESS. JAMES MARSDEN SERVED IN ROYAL NAVY BETWEEN 1893 - 1897. HE ENLISTED IN GRIMSBY. SERVED AS CORPORAL, 11173, WITH THE 2ND/5TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 21ST MARCH 1918, A […]
BORN HULL 1880. ADOPTED SON OF MARY GETHEN, A DRESSMAKER, FROM 7 SEWARD STREET, HULL. HE WORKED AS A WAREHOUSE MAN ON THE RAILWAYS & BOARDED AT 49 BLANKET ROW, HULL (1901 CENSUS). ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 03/05/1915, AGED 35. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT YPRES, BELGIUM. 1/4th B […]
