Area: Buckingham Street

BORN 1874. WILLIAM GASKILL, SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, ON DESTROYERS. PREVIOUS TO WAR HE WORKED FOR RECKITTS AND HAD BEEN IN THE NAVY FOR 23 YEARS. HE LIVED AT 3 ASHBROOK, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. REPORTED AS LOST AT SEA IN HULL DAILY MAIL 16/05/1917. NO CWGC RECORD FOUND?

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF WILLIAM & BRIDGET GIBBINS, OF 67 VICTOR STREET, 1 CARLTON AVENUE, VICTOR STREET AND 17 EDWARDS PLACE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED AGED ONLY 16. SERVED WITH THE 11TH ESSEX REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 01/06/1918, AGD 20. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 18/06/ […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF ALEXANDER & REBECCA (JEWITT) OF 1, CREMORNE TERRACE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 2, EMMAS TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A MILL WORKER, LIVING AT 143, LINWOOD TERRACE, DANSOM LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. HIS BROTHER, ALEXANDER, SERVED WITH THE MACHINE GU […]

BORN MEXBOROUGH, 1889. SON OF ROBERT THOMAS HADLOW (1861-1931) AND MTILDA ALDRIDGE (1865-1930), OF 10, NICHOLSON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A GLASS BOTTLE MAKER. HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HUSBAND OF JANE FUGAL (JENNY) HADLOW, OF 6, GOODS AVENUE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A LABOURER. H […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF HENRY T & MARY E HARDY ABOVE. BROTHERS ARTHUR, HERBERT, CHArLES & FRANK. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2/6TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/09/1917, AGED 23. COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL.

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES HOBSON 12/999. Born in 1892, James was the third of four children to 'Hetty' Naomi Hobson of 11 Buckingham Street, Holderness Road, Hull. Hetty's life was complicated for the times; James' elder sister Gladys was born in the USA and they landed in Hull via a spell living in Lancashire. There's no Ce […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF THE LAT ROBERT HODGES & ANNIE ELIZABETH HODGES, OF 9 GREAT PASSAGE STREET, HULL. HIS MOTHER MARRIED ALBERT JACKSON AND LIVED AT 8 BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).  CHARLES HODGES LIVED IN HULL. BUT ENLISTED IN HORNSEA. HE WAS A REGULAR SOLDIER. BASED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AT ALDERSHOT, H […]

BORN HULL 22/04/1887. SON OF ROBERT & ANNIE ELIZABETH HODGES, OF 9, GREAT PASSAGE STREET, HULL. WHEN HIS FATHER DIED, ANNIE HODGES MARRIED ALBERT JACKSON AND MOVED TO, 24, WHITBY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 8, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A MASTER MARINER. HE CERTIFICATE WAS ISSUED ON 18/11/1907. HE WAS SKIPPER, OF […]

BORN HULL 1896. BORN ARTHUR PRINCE. SON OF MARY HORNBY (1862-1918) AND FOSTER FATHER, ZACHARIA HORNBY (1857-1922), OF 42 , BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO STEP BOTHERS AND ONE STEP SISTER. HIS STEPFATHER WAS A TUG BOAT CAPTAIN. ARTHUR WORKED AS A CLERK. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7 INCHES TALL, 34-36 INCH CHEST, ENLI […]

BORN TRONDHEIM, NORWAY 27/08/1892. SON OF MAGNUS ADOLF JACOBSON AND MARY ANN RIGGALL (1869-1903). HE MARRIED CHARLOTTE FULLARD (1895-1962), AT SCULCOATES, HULL IN DECEMBER 1916. HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE AND SON JOSEPH (1918-2003), LIVED AT 5 ETHEL'S TERRACE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. HIS GRANDMOTHER MARY ANN RIGGALL, LIVED AT 10 RIPON STREET, […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF BENJAMIN EDWARD LENG & ELIZABETH ANN (TODD) OF 24 , EDWARDS AVENUE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN INCLUDING SEVEN SISTERS. HIS OTHER BROTHER PERCY SURVIVED THE WAR. ERNEST LENG WAS A PLATER'S HELPER BEFORE THE WAR. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 8 INCHES TALL, 140 LBS, 38 INCH CHEST, 'GOOD' PHYSIQUE, BLUE […]

BORN THORNABY, DRIFFIELD, 1890. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM (1841-1895) & BRIDGET McFADDEN (1846-1928). BROTHER TO MARY AND SARAH McFADDEN. HE MARRIED BERTHA BETNEY (1887-1917), ON 23/10/1911, AT ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH, HULL. THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, MARGARET (1916-1917), AND MURIEL AND LIVED AT 8, ALPHA TERRACE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF MRS ALICE ANN PARISH (1868-1945) & THE LATE MR HENRY McKERNAN, AT 167 BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN (ONE DIED). WORKED AS A SHIPWRIGHT. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 18/11/1914, AGED 19 YEARS AND 30 DAYS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 118 LBS WEIGHT, & 39 I […]

Born Hull, 1890.  Son of Isaac and Elizabeth Medcalf, of 189 Buckingham Street, East Hull. He enlisted in Hull. Formerly, 32/840, Northumberland Fusiliers. Also, served as Private, W. Metcalf, KOYLI (Depot). Died of war wounds, at Money Hill Hospital, Birmingam, on 22/08/1918. Buried at Hull Hedon Road Cemetery. His military Funeral was […]

BORN SWEDEN 1882. SAILED WITH HULL CREWS REPORTED LOST IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL. MARRIED SARAH ELLEN OBERG 1907 IN HULL. On February 15th, 1915, the British cargo ship MEMBLAND, built in 1900 by William Gray & Co., Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Macbeth & Co., West Harlepool, left Hull for Tyne in ballast, and went miss […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN HENRY PEARCY 13/1227. Born in Hollym in January 1897, John was the fourth of six children to John and Ann Pearcy of 67 Buckingham Street, Hull. A Farm Tennant by trade he worked land out east of Hull before the war, but signed up to fight for King and Country as soon after his 18th birthday as he c […]

BORN SOUTH SHIELDS, 1896. HE WAS THE SON OF MARGARET POWER. HE LIVED IN HULL. WORKED 14 MONTHS, AS A CARPENTER'S ASSISTANT AT THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY'S ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT. ENLISTED HULL, SEPTEMBER 1914. JOINED THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRES (2ND HULL PALS). SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. TRANSFERRED TO THE 7TH EYR. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/05 […]

BORN SOUTH SHIELDS, 1898. SON OF MARGARET POWERS, OF 128 , BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. AN APPRENTICE FOR EARLE'S SHIPBUILDING YARD. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED ON IST JULY 1916, WITH 11 OFFICERS AND 300 OTHER RANKS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 08/08/1916. *

BORN HULL 1899. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX PRIVATE, 29548 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 36763, TO THE 2/5TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/11/1917, AGED 18. BURIED AT CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL. HE HAD RECENTLY JUST MARRIED AND WAS HUISBAND OF ELIZABETH ROBERTS AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS.

BORN HULL 1895. SCULCOATES. SON OF EDWIN SCULPHER (1859-& 1909) AND ADA CHAPMAN (1868-1931). HE HAD AN ELDER BROTHER, HENRY, AND YOUNGER SISTER, ADA. AN ERRAND BOY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 11027, 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/11/1917, AGE 21. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS […]