BORN HULL 1890. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM WHITELAM (1866-1904), & MARGARET JANE FRASER, AT 303 SOUTH BOULEVARD, HULL. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. EMPLOYED AS A FISH DOCK LABOURER & ICE MERCHANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 07/02/1916, AGED 25 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8.5 INCHES TALL, 145 LBS WEIGHT, 37 INCH CHEST […]
Carpenter
BORN BARROW, LANCS 19/10/1884. SON OF JAMES BROWN & CATHERINE, OF 28 REDBOURNE STREET, HULL. JOINED ROYAL NAVY IN 1904. RESIDED AT 23 ALBERMARLE TERRACE, BOULEVARD, HULL. HE HAD SERVED ELEVEN YEARS IN THE NAVY WAS A CARPENTER ON HMS "GOOD HOPE", WHICH WAS SUNK, ON 01/11/1914, HE DROWNED AGED 28. LISTED AS KILLED ON THE REDBOURNE STRE […]
Sergeant
BORN MANCHESTER, 1876. FOURTH SON OF MR T.P WILLIAMS, INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. HIS FATHER WAS HEADMASTER OF THE WHEELER STREET SCHOOL, HULL. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN OFFICE WORKER. HUSBAND OF ADA ETHEL GRANT, LIVED AT 3 MILTON TERRACE, SOUTH BOULEVARD. HE ENLISTED IN THE 4TH EYR AT HULL. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON THE SOMME, AT NO:1 CASUALTY CLEAR […]
