Area: Cottingham, East Riding

BORN HESSLE 1890. ELDESTSON OF JOHN JIBSON (1865-1893) & ALICE JOHNSON (1867-1901), OF GILDERDYKE, HOWDEN. BROTHER TO GEORGE AND HAROLD AND SISTER, HILDA. A FORMER FARM SERVANT. HE ENLISTED AT LOWTORPE, JOINING THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS, ON 22/07/1913, AGED 22 YEARS AND 7 MONTHS. WORKED AS A WAGONER. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBED HIM AS, 5 […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF JOHN & JANE SMITH KIRK WHO LIVED IN COTTINGHAM. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON COTTINGHAM ROH. BROTHER JOHN WILLIAM KIRK DIED 25/8/1917 AGED 20 YEARS. HE IS BURIED AT BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION READS, "NO MORNING DAWNS OR NIGHT RETURNS BUT WE REMEMBER THEE"

BORN COTTINGHAM 1897. SON OF JOHN KIRK & JANE SMITH KIRK (DIED 1919) . BROTHER HAROLD ALSO KILLED NOVEMBER 1917.

BORN HOWDEN, 1897. ONLY SON OF ROBERT JOHN LATHAM (1849-1914) AND KATE AUGUSTA ELIZABETH HACKETT (1868-1938), OF 17, NORTHGATE,  COTTINGHAM. HIS FATHER WAS A RETIRED CHEMIST AND DRUG STORE SHOPKEEPER. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN KENTISH TOWN, LONDON. HE HAD ONE ELDER SISTER, MAUD ETHEL LATHAM (1879-1966). HE WAS EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SC […]

Born Beverley 1891. Lived Bradford. Enlisted Pontefract. Listed on the Cottingham WW1 Memorial, Hallgate, Cottingham. Son of William S Lawton and Mrs. Mary Ellen Corble (formerly Lawton), of 22, Clayton Place, Barkerend Rd., Bradford, Yorks. Killed in action on 12/101/1916.

BORN HULL 1889. SON THOMAS LOMAS LOCKING (1853-1937) & LOUISA LEND (1852-1912), OF COTTINGHAM. SON OF A SOLICITOR. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. WAS A SOLICITOR BEFORE THE WAR WITH HIS FATHER'S FIRM, COLONIAL CHAMBERS, LAND OF GREEN GINGER, HULL. ALSO CLERK TO THE HULL & EAST RIDING JUSTICES. HE WAS […]

BORN HULL, ON 18/12/1897, AT 250 NEWLAND AVENUE. ELDEST SON OF MR WATSON HENRY LONGBONE (1875-1965) & MARY ELLEN STOBBART (1878-1956), OF 125 FINKLE STREET, COTTINGHAM. (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD EIGHT BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS, WHO ALL LIVED AT 125 FINKLE STREET. HE WAS A FARM SERVANT. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 3 INCHES TALL, 34-37 INCH CHES […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1895. ELDEST SON OF PATRICK AND RUTH McBRIDE, 31 ANDREWS STREET & 1 CHANTRY'S LANE, BEVERLEY. HIS FATHER WAS FROM LONDONDERRY, WHO HAD SERVED WITH THE WARWICK REGIMENT IN 1901 AND WORKED IN BEVERLEY AS A TANNER'S LABOURER. HIS AUNTIE MRS MARGARET JANE TAYLOR LIVED ABOVE. JAMES McBRIDE WORKED AS A CLERK AND BOARDED IN HU […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1893. SON OF WILLIAM METCALF & EDITH (STEPMOTHER),AT 59 OAKLAND COTTAGES, WATERWORKS LANE, COTTINGHAM. HE WORKED FOR THE HULL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY IN COTTINGHAM. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, SERVED OVER THREE YEARS WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WAS KILLED BY A SNIPER, ON 27/04/1918, AG […]

BORN LEEDS 20/03/1894. ONLY SON OF HERBERT MILLARD (1868-1952) & WILHELMINA WARDLE (1872-1955), OF 14 EXETER STREET, COTTINGHAM. SON OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. HE HAD ONE SISTER, MARGGUERITE (1901-1983). HE WORKED AS A CLERK FOR A MANURE MANUFACTURER (1911 CENSUS) HE MARRIED MILLIE ALETHEA HOLNES (1891-1981), AT HULL, IN OCTOBER 191 […]

BORN HULL 1871. SON OF GEORGE NEALE (1824-1876) AND MARY LONGMAN (1828-1892). HIS FATHER WAS A RETIRED SEAMAN, BLINDED BY GUM POWDER. WHO WORKED AS A FURNITURE BROKER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS WHO WERE ALL SHIP FOREMEN. HE ALSO HAD FOUR SISTERS. EDUCATED AT PRYME STREET SCHOOL. HE RECEIVED HIS SHIP MATE CERTIFICATE, ON 27TH JANUARY 1894. […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1891. SON OF JONATHAN AND ALICE O'CONNELL. THIRD OF FOUR SONS. A FARM WORKER. HUSBAND OF ETHEL O'CONNELL, OF 36 BECK BANK, COTTINGHAM (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 4881 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE TRANSFERRED TO THE 2ND BORDER REGIMENT. HE DIED IN ITALY, ON 14/11/1918, AGED 25, THREE DAYS AFTER T […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM POOL 11/1063. Born in 1895, William was the eldest of three children and only son of William and Elizabeth Pool of 221 Hallgate, Cottingham, Hull. A Butcher before the war, he enlisted at Hull City Hall on 9th September 1914 joining the fledgling 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 'The Trades […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1894. SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM PYBUS (1865-1946) & MARY ELIZABETH PYBUS (1861-1949), OF 173 FINKLE STREET , COTTINGHAM (CWGC ADDRESS).  SON OF A GENERAL LABOURER. THIRD  OF FIVE SONS. EMPLOYED AS A NURSERY MAN. HE  WAS ALSO A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AT THE COTTINGHAM METHODIST CHURCH. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH T […]

Stanley Rhodes was the son of Florence Rhodeas, who was only 19 and unmarried when he was born. It is said that Florence had been in service in a big house when she became pregnant. He was born in January 1895 at Northgate and brought up here, by Emma Wiles, a widow. Florence married three years after Stanley was born and lived in Bridli […]

BORN HULL. LIVED COTTINGHAM. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. EX 5748 EYR. LISTED IN SOLDIER'S DIED RECORDS. COMMEMORATED AT THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, WEST-VLAANDEREN, BELGIUM

BORN TIBTHORPE, YORKS 1891. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JOSEPH ROBSON, BUCKTON, NEAR BEMPTON, YORKS. FORMER HULL POLICEMAN. LIVED AT 113 FINKLE STREET, COTTINGHAM. HE SERVED WITH THE 21ST TYNESIDE SCOTTISH. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 05/06/1917, AGED 26. COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE

BORN COTTINGHAM 1880. LIVED COTTINGHAM. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF RACHAEL SISSONS. NB: JAMES WILLIAM SISSONS - 4 SPRING GARDENS, SPRING STREET

Hull Pals Memorial Post. CPL WILLIAM HENRY SMITH MM 30911. Born in Burstwick in July 1889, William was the youngest of ten children to John Hardy Smith (1842-1909) and Agnes Langdale Smith (1844-1919), of 26 King Street, Cottingham. A Boot Repairer by trade, he seems to have thrived as a soldier rising to the rank of Corporal and showing […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1891. SON OF GEORGE & JANE STABELER. HE WAS A LABOURER, MARKET GARDENER AND PORK BUTCHER. SERVED WITH THE 2/1ST EAST RIDING YEOMANRY, IN THE MIDDLE EAST. DIED AT SEA, ON HMS "ARCADIA", ON 15/04/1917, AGED 26. BURIED AT MIKRA CEMETERY,  GREECE. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON COTTINGHAM WAR MEMORIAL AND ON THE COTTINGHAM METHO […]