Area: Bridlington

BORN HULL 01/10/1892. WIFE EDITH ABOVE. LOST AT SEA. NAVAL RECORDS. The Hull steam trawler EPWORTH (H386) was requisitioned for war service as minesweeper in November of 1914. (Ad.No.379). On 22/05/1917 the HMT EPWORTH (FY379) foundered following a collision in the North Sea with the loss of the skipper and ten crew. PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post: PRIVATE PERCY BROWN 10/734. Born in Bridlington, in 1891, Percy was the eighth of nine children to Robert and Elizabeth Brown of 39 High Street, Bridlington. A Clerk before the war he enlisted at Hull City Hall on 5th September 1914 joining the 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Commercials’, 1st Hull P […]

BORN HULL 1897. ELDEST SON OF MAUDE (1865-1951) AND ARTHUR HENRY COWLEY (1861-1949), OF 430 ANLABY ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 55 ST JOHN'S AVENUE, BRIDLINGTON. SON OF A WINE AND SPIRITS MERCHANT. HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER, JOHN. HE WAS EDUCATED AT HYMERS COLLEGE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, WHERE HE TRAINED AS A DENTIST. DURING THE WAR […]

BORN HEDON, HULL 1896. ELDEST SON OF PERCY & FLORENCE ANNIE DENBY, OF 5 GALDSTONE TERRACE, BRIDLINGTON. HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER, CECIL. HE ENLISTED IN BRIDLINGTON. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 1924, 5TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 18/04/1915, AGED 18. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/04/1915, AGED 18. COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, YPRES.

BORN HOLYWOOD DOWN, BELFAST, IRELAND, 1898. ONLY SON OF ROBERT & ELIZABETH C DUGUID, OF 36 TRINITY ROAD, BRIDLINGTON (1911 CENSUS), "CRAIGJARARD", MAYFIELD ROAD, BRIDLINGTON AND THEN PRIORY CLOSE, BRIDLINGTON (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A NAVAL ARCHITECT, HE WAS THE ELDEST OF THREE CHILDREN. BROTHER TO AGNES AND GERTRUDE DUGUID. HE WAS EDUCAT […]

BORN BRIXTON 1894. LIVED HULL. HULL PAL. SON OF FREDERICK CUTHBERT CLAUDE DUNN & EMMA ASHBURN, BRIDLINGTON.

Private Walter Henry Harper 24451 13th East Yorkshire Regiment, was a 'Hull Pal', killed in action, on 13 November 1916, aged 31. He is buried in Euston Road Cemetery Colincamps France. “Till the day dawns” is inscribed on his headstone. Walter was born in Pickering in 1885. His mother was Mary Ann Harper - she married David Lacey in […]

Hull Pals Memorial Posts. PRIVATE PERCY MARTINDALE 10/672. Born Hull 1889, the eighth of twelve children, to Thomas and Fanny Martindale of Wycar, Haslemere Road, Bridlington. Percy was a Tailor's Cutter prior to enlistment in September 1914. One of the original Pals, he served first in Egypt then on the Somme and survived the attack on […]

BORN HULL 1893. ENLISTED BRIDLINGTON. SON OF JOHN B & HANNAH MEGSON - BRIDLINGTON.

BORN HULL. LIVED BRIDLINGTON. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION. SON OF MR W W MILES, - 3 GARDEN WALK, BRIDLINGTON.

BORN BEWHOLME, EAST YORKSHIRE, 1886. SON OF JAMES OVERFIELD (1852-1922) AND JANE ANN SCRIVENER (1852- ). HE HAD TWO SISTERS, CLARA AND CARRIE. HE MARRIED AT SKIRLAUGH, IN 1904. HIS WIFE BESSIE ANN KEMP, LIVED AT 15, CARRISBROOK VILLAS, MARSHALL STREET, HULL AND 55, RAGLAN STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). THEY HAD TH […]

BORN KNOTTINGLEY, YORKSHIRE, 1902. ONLY SON OF JAMES WILLIAM SENIOR & BLANCHE BAGELEY. SERVED AS A NAVAL CADET. LOST ON THE HULL STEAMSHIP "MONTEBELLO", ON 21/06/1918, AGED 16 LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30TH JULY 1918. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEM […]

BORN HULL, 1885. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SON OF MR CRESSWICK GEORGE SOUTHCOTT (1859-1927) & CAROLINE SOPHIA BROADBRIDGE (1849 -1902), STOKE NEWINGTON, BRIDLINGTON. HIS FATHER WAS A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND MILITARY CONTRACTOR AT HULL AND LEEDS. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HIS WIFE ETHEL SOUTHCOTT LIVED AT 24 ROUNDHAY ROAD, BRIDLIN […]

BORN 1892. THIRD SON OF JOHN WATTS 'DEONIA' HOUSE, OF HULL AND BRIDLINGTON. SON OF AN OIL BROKER. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HE WAS A PARTNER, IN HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS IN HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WHEN WAR BEGAN. WENT TO FRANCE IN APRIL 1916, AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT. PROMOTED TO STAFF CAPTAIN IN THE 92ND B […]