BORN HULL 1881. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM HENRY AKESTER (1855-1917) & ALICE HAMILTON (1858-1914) , OF 6, DEVON TERRACE, BURLEIGH STREET, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS, FREDERICK, HERBERT AND HARRY AND THREE SISTERS, EDITH, GERTRUDE AND ALICE. SON OF A BARGE MAN, FROM A FAMILY THAT WORKED ON THE WATERWAYS AND RIVER HULL. HE WAS WORKING AS […]
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6, ALBERT TERRACE, TERRY STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
01/04/1918
Aged
36
BORN HULL 1882. DOCK LABOURER. BOARDED AT 8, CHURCH STREET, DRYPOOL, HULL. ENLISTED SHIPLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 7928 5TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (RESERVES). TRANSFERRED TO THE 199TH LABOUR CORPS. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT THE SOMME, ON 01/04/1918, AGED 36. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 04/05/1918. HE LEFT WIDOW, LILY AT, […]
Born Hull, 25/12/1886. Parents unknown. He lodged at this 18 Church Street, Drypool, Hull. Worked as a Telegraph Messenger. He enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve. Died of disease, on board the Lord Airedale, on 18/03/1915, aged 29. His next of Kin, was his brother, John William Booth, of 72 Newmarket Street, Grimsby. He is buried in Gri […]
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BORN HULL 1875. SON OF JOSEPH THOMAS CARR & SUSANHAH CARR, OF 100 , CHURCH STREET, DRYPOOL, HULL, HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. HIS UNOFFICIAL WIFE, WAS MINERVA BURTON AT 19 SOUTH PARADE, ANLABY ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 41573, YORK & LANCS REGIMENT & PRIVATE, 22267, EYR. HE DIED OF DISEASE, […]
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BORN HULL 1888. HE WAS THE SON OF THOMAS AND THE LATE ELIZABETH CHAPMAN, AT 17 RAIKES STREET, DRYPOOL, HULL HIS HOME WAS PROSPECT PLACE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. A RESERVE SOLDIER. MOBILIZED ON 08/08/1916. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 5486, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 08/09/1914. CAPTURED 29/09/1914. RELEASED FROM CAPTIBITY HE […]
4 PROSPECT PLACE, CHURCH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
16/07/1917
Aged
30
BORN HULL 1886. SON OF JOHN DOYLE (1850-1912) AND MARGARET MARTIN. WIFE MRS DORA ANNIE DOYLE & TWO CHILDREN. HE MARRIED DORA ANN WATSON, AT ST PATRICK'S CHURCH, HULL, ON 17/08/1907. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN. WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 29/10//1915, AGED 29 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 9 INCHES TALL, […]
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF WILLIAM & THE LATE AGNES FLETCHER, OF 3 LEO PLACE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. MOVED TO 20 BURNLEY STREET, CHADDERTON, LANCS. ENLISTED OLDHAM. SERVED IN THE 5TH ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION, AT GALLIPOLI, ON 15/08/1915, AGED 23. COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL. Battalion History: Shortly after 1200 hou […]
14 PROSPECT PLACE, CHURCH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
21/09/1916
Aged
21
BORN HULL 1895. SON OF THE LATE ALLAN & ROSE FLETCHER. STEP PARENTS, HARRY AND JANE SHEARD, LIVED AT 14 PROSPECT PLACE, CHURCH STREET, DRYPOOL, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, SERVED AS, 24176, KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. TRANSFERRED TO THE 9TH LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 21/09/1916, AGED 21. BURIED AT BOULO […]
12, BARNSLEY TERRACE, WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
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Died on
17/06/1917
Aged
18
BORN GRIMSBY 1898. SON OF FRANK SAUNDERS & EDITH GREENLEES, OF THE THREE CROWNS LODGING HOUSE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. HE ALSO LIVED AT 24 CROWLE STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS, 07/10/1915). HE ENLISTED IN ABERDEEN, AT THE AGE OF 17. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 03/02/1915. SERVED WITH THE 1ST GORDON HIGHLANDERS. ALFRED HA […]
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19 PROSPECT PLACE, CHURCH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
28/08/1915
Aged
28
BORN HULL 1887. SON OF ROBERT HODGSON (1865-1904) AND BETSEY HODGSON (1864-1891). STEP SON OF MRS LILY HODGSON, OF 19 PROSPECT LACE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 28/08/1915, AGED 28. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO LILY, HIS SISTER, MRS […]
19 ST PAULS AVENUE, CHURCH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
09/05/1917
Aged
21
BORN HULL 1896. SON OF WILLIAM JOHN & ELIZABETH ANN MONTGOMERY, OF 19 ST PAULS AVENUE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. GENERAL LAOURER. EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, JOHN A. SCOTT, SEED MERCHANTS, HIGH STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED WHEN WAR BEGAN AGED 19. SERVED IN THE 10TH HUSSARS. HAD BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR 19 MONTHS. HE WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN THE STOMA […]
12, ST PAULS AVENUE, CHURCH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
08/11/1916
Aged
24
BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOSEPH HENRY NEAL (1857-1926) & WILHELMINA DARCY (1865-1948), OF 12, ST PAULS AVENUE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. EX RECKITTS WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/11/1916, AGED 24. HIS DEATH […]
12, ST PAULS SQUARE, CHURCH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
15/08/1916
Aged
25
BORN HULL 04/11/1891. SON OF JOSEPH HENRY NEAL (1857-1926) & WILHELMINA DARCY (1865-1948), OF 12, ST PAULS AVENUE, CHURCH STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS AN OIL MILL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 22184, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 3RD NORTHAM […]
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BORN HULL 1887. SON OF MARTHA SANDS (1853-1943), OF 10 CROYLAND AVENUE, HOLLAND STREET, HULL. SON OF A GROCER. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS. WORKED AS A PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER. HE MARRIED ELIZABETH SHEARD (1890-1963), ON 10/11/1915, AT ST PETER'S CHURCH, DRYPOOL. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH LIVED AT 26, CHURCH STREET, HULL. HE ENLI […]
Fireman
9 CHURCH STREET, CHURCH STREET, GRIMSBY, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
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Died on
24/02/1916
Aged
30
SS Tummel, built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Goole in 1912 and owned at the time of her loss by E. P. Hutchinson, Hull, was a British steamer of 531 tons. On February 24th, 1916, Tummel, on a voyage from Grimsby to Tréport with a cargo of coal, was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-5 (Ulrich Mohrbutter), 7 miles […]
