Chief Engineer
BORN HULL 1869. SON OF JOSEPH & ROSANNA BLAIR , OF HULL. HIS WIFE ISABELLA LIVED - 45 ROKER PARK ROAD, SUNDERLAND. DROWNED ON 23/10/1915, AGED 46. Ilaro SS was a British Merchant steamer of 2,799grt. and built in 1895. On the 23rd October 1915 when on route from Forcados, West Africa for Hull with a cargo of maize and palm kernels w […]
Lance Corporal
BORN BURTON STATHER, LINCS, 1892. SON OF JOHN THOMAS HAGUES (1863-1926) & ISABELLA ANN HARVEY ( 1863-1932), MARFLEET HILL. A LABOURER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/02/1917, AGED 25 HIS NAME IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MARFLEET ROLL OF HONOUR, HULL. HIS NAME WAS ALSO RECORDED ON THE […]
BORN 1881. ENLISTED YORK. BROTHER OF MR ALBERT SHAW OF 7 , CHURCH LANE, HULL . (CWGC ADDRESS). KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/10/1917, AGED 36. COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS THREE BROTHERS, GEORGE, DAVID AND ALBERT.
