Area: Cottingham, East Riding

BORN COTTINGHAM 1897. SON OF ROBERT ARTHUR & LOUISA STABELER, OF 246 PARK ROW, COTTINGHAM AND THIS PROBATE ADDRESS. EDUCATED AT HALLGATE SCHOOL, COTTINGHAM. EMPLOYED BY HIS UNCLE, MR SAM JONES, THE PORK BUTCHER, OF  COTTINGHAM AND ALSO WORKED AT THE HULL MARKET PLACE. HE ENLISTED IN THE 6TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. TRANSFERRED TO […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1882. SON OF TOM WILLIAM STAHER & JANE (BACHELOR), OF SOUTH STREET, COTTINGHAM. A GARDNER. HE MARRIED IN 1910. HIS WIFE BARBARA PETRIE BUTCHART, LIVED AT 1, WAINFLEET AVENUE, COTTINGHAM, (1911 CENSUS) AND LATER 197, KING STREET, COTTINGHAM, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT HULL, OCTOBER 1915. SERVED WITH […]

BORN OTTRINGHAM 1885. ONLY SON OF HENRY AND JANE STEPHENSON, 4 KING STREET, COTTINGHAM. HE HAD THREE SISTERS, FANNY, HARRIET AND ANNIE. WORKED AS A FARM SERVANT IN WINESTEAD IN 1901. HE WAS A WATERWORKS LABOURER BY 1911. ENLISTED HULL. DIED OF WOUNDS AT 57TH FIELD AMBULANCE HOSPITAL, ON 29/10/1917, AGED 32. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1897. SON OF GEORGE BREIGHTON VALENTINE STEPHENSON (1867-1955) AND HANNAH BORMAN (1871-1928), OF 42 CRESCENT STREET, COTTINGHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 23/04/1917, AGED 20. UNMARRIED. HE LEFT THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. H […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1896. LIVED IN HULL. HULL PAL. PARENTS - SAMUEL & SARAH 78 KINGS STREET, COTTINGHAM. ON COTTINGHAM ROH. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE HERBERT SUMMERS 10/677. Born 1897, the youngest of two children and only son of Samuel and Sarah Summers of 78 King Street, Cottingham. Herbert was a Butcher’s Assistant before the war, […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF FREDERICK R. TAYLOR & CLARA ANN TAYLOR, OF 9 BARRINGTON AVENUE, CLIFTON ROAD, HORNSEA. EDUCATED AT THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS IN POCLINGTON AND EASINGWOLD. WAS CONNECTED WITH THE CORN TRADE IN HULL HIGH STREET, WHERE HE WAS WELL KNOWN. EMIGATED TO AUSTRALIA AND ARRIVED IN BRISBANE, ON 04/06/1914. WORKED AS A LABOURER […]

BORN HORNSEA, 1892. SON OF JAMES & SARAH TEESDALE, OF 17 FINKLE STREET, COTTINGHAM. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A TAILOR. RESIDED IN BEVERLEY. HE MARRIED FLORENCE E. SUMPNER, AT BEVERLEY IN 1916. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 6 CARLTON VILLAS, GROVEHILL ROAD, BEVERLEY. HE ENLISTED IN SHEFFIELD. SERVED IN THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. […]

BORN HULL 1889. WIFE ELSIE. PARENTS EDWARD & ANNIE TEMPERTON, 258 HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. SLATER BY TRADE.

BORN COTTINGHAM 1885. FOURTH SON OF JOSEPH & SARAH THOMPSON, OF ENDYKE LANE, COTTINGHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT LABOURER. FORMERLY EMPLOYED BY THE GENERAL POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS, HULL DISTRICT, FOR SEVEN YEARS. SERVED IN THE 16TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. DIED OF PYERNIA, ON 29TH MAY 1917, AGED 32. HIS DEATH WAS […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1898. SON OF ALFRED AND EMMA THRUSSELL, OF CRESCENT STREET AND 10 NORTHGATE, COTTINGHAM. BROTHERS ARTHUR, WILLIAM AND JOHN AND SISTERS ANNIE AND MIRIAM.HE LIVED AT 81 ST PAUL STREET, HULL. BEFORE JOINING THE ARMT, HE WORKED FOR MR WRAY, THE HAY AND STRAW DEALER, CAROLINE STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE 4TH EYR RESERVES […]

BORN HULL 03/03/1881. FATHER JOSEPH WALKER LIVED WEST GREEN, COTTINGHAM. MARINE CHARGE MAN AT HULL. DROWNED ON 12/12/1914, AGED 33. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE NER ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES ON 16/01/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *

Born Cottingham, 1890. James was the youngest of four children to Arthur (1859-1894) and Edith Watson (1858-1903), of Wood House, Cottingham. The 1911 Census finds him living with his siblings at 38 Victoria Avenue, Hull and working as a Bank Clerk. War changed all that forever. James queued in the long uneven lines of 1st September 1914 […]

BORN NEWLANDS, HULL 1900. SECOND SON OF BOYNTON WATSON (1872-1930) & BERTHA WRIGHT (1879-1934), OF 23, WAINFLEET AVENUE, COTTINGHAM, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY WORKER. ENLISTED BEVERELY. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EYR. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR THREE MONTHS. KILLED ON THE SOMME, 25/07/1916, AGED 16. COMMEMORATED ON THE […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF DR. GEORGE HENRY & KATE WATSON, OF 192 HALLGATE, COTTINGHAM, HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. PRIOR TO THE WAR HE WAS PRACTICING MEDICINE. HE SERVED AS A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. HE HAD BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR NINETEEN MONTHS. WOUNDED ON HE SOMME ON 16/09/1916 AND DIED OF WOUNDS TWO DAYS […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1890. LIVED COTTINGHAM. SON OF JOHN HENRY & JULIA SARAH WHITEHEAD ABOVE. A RAILWAY CLERK. HE HAD JOINED THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS IN 1904 AND WAS WORKING AT THE PASSENGER DEPARTMENT IN BROUGH, WHEN WAR WAS DECLARED. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES ON 03/05/1915, AGED 26. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE ME […]

BORN THUMGUMBALD, EAST YORKSHIRE, 1896.  SON OF ARTHUR & MARY WIGBY, OF 217 HALLGATE, COTTINGHAM. A FORMER GROCER'S ASSISTANT. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, WILLIAM CUSSONS & SONS, AT WITHERNSEA. SERVED HIS APPRENERSHIP IN COTTINGHAM. RESIDED WITH HIS PARENTS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY,  PRIVATE, 285 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TR […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1894. SON OF JOHN STORK & LUCY ANN, OF THWAITE STREET, COTTINGHAM, HULL. ENLISTED ST ALBANS. EX, PRIVATE, 4420, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 203060, TO THE 1/4TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR 15 MONTHS BEFORE HE WAS WOUNDED. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT BOULOGNE HOSPITAL, […]

BORN YORK 1893. ENLISTED YORK. SON OF THOMAS & ANNIE WINTERINGHAM, YORK. LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY IN HDM 30/10/17 AND LIVING IN COTTINGHAM, YORKS. COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, WEST-VLAANDEREN, BELGIUM

BORN SCULCOATES,HULL 1890. SON OF WILLIAM & HARRIET WOLLAS. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL (MM). SHOT BY A SNIPER. LISTED ON THE COTTINGHAM ROLL OF HONOUR. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE GEORGE HERBERT WOLLAS MM 12/1526. Born in 1890, George was the youngest of 15 children to William and Harriet Wollas of 250 Northgate, Cottingham. A W […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF EDWIN WRIGHT AND OLIVE ELIZABETH ADDISON (1855–1942), OF THWAITE GARDENS, COTTINGHAM (PENSION ADDRESS). A GARDENER AT THWAITE HOUSE WITH HIS FATHER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 403, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. DROWNED, ON […]