BORN HULL 1900. SON OF EDWIN & LILY WYATT BURN ABOVE. ENLISTED LEEDS. KILLED 17/09/1918, AGED 18. BURIED AT TREFCON BRITISH CEMETERY, CAULAINCOURT, AISNE, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "INTO THE SUDDEN GLORY OUT OF THE DARK HE TROD"
Private
10, CURZON STREET, ALBERT AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
14/08/1916
Aged
25
BORN NORTH FERRIBY 1891, BUT RESIDENT IN HULL. SON OF WILLIAM ESPINER (1853-1899) ALICE ANN MILBURN (1858-1934), OF 10, CURZON STREET, ALBERT AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS. WORKED AS A LOCOMOTIVE FIREMAN, FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 35. 37.5 INCH CHEST, 135 […]
BORN HESSLE 1892. HULL PAL. SON OF GEOFFREY WILLIAM & KATE ASBRIDGE HORSFIELD. KILLED BY 'MINNIE EXPLOSION. FIRST 10TH EYR CASUALTY OF WW1. PAINTER. HE IS BURIED AT AUCHONVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE READS, "HE DIED THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE". Hull Pals Memorial Post: Stanley was the first Hull Pal to lose his li […]
BORN HULL 1888. SON OF THOMAS MONTGOMERY (1850-1932) & SUSANNAH MADDISON (1851-1901), OF 6, ARTHUR AVENUE, HAVELOCK STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A SHIP RIGGER. HE HAD SIX SISTERS AND THREE BROTHERS. HE WORKED AS A SHIP RIGGER. HUSBAND OF DOROTHY FLORENCE ESPINER (1894-1980), AT 10, CURZON STREET, NEWINGTON, HULL (WAR PENSION A […]
BORN HULL 1893. ELDEST SON OF FRANK JAMES SIMPKINS (1866-1945) & ALICE MARY COLBECK (1866-1958), OF 16 CURZON STREET, ALBERT AVENUE, HULL. SON OF A POST OFFICE OVERSEER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, CECIL AND JACK AND A SISTER, NANCY. HE WAS A 'HULL HARRIER' AND RAN IN THE EIGHT MILE HANDICAP RACE HELD ON THE 21/02/1914. HE WAS ONE OF SI […]
