BORN HULL 04/06/1883. BAPTISED AT ST BARNABAS CHURCH, HESSLE ROAD, ON 23/06/1883. SECOND OF EIGHT SONS OF THOMAS ATKINSON (1859-1939) & MARTHA ANN WITTY (1862-1935), OF 5 NEWTON STREET, HULL. EDUCTED AT THE COUNCIL AND GIGHER GRADE SCHOOLS, HULL. HE WORKED AS A CLERK FOR MR GOY, OF LOWGATE, HULL. EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN 1905. HE WA […]
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BORN HULL 020/6/1899. SON OF MINNIE W & TOM R BUTTERWICK. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY. BEFORE THE WAR, WORKED AS A TELEGRAM MESSENGER, AND MEMBER OF THE WELLINGTON TROOP SCOUTS, WHERE HE WAS A KING'S SCOUT AND PATROL LEADER. HE SERVED AS A TELEGRAPHIST. HE HAD JUST TURNED 18 WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN THE HMS 'VANGUARD' EXPLOSION, ON 0 […]
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BORN HULL 1894. ADOPTED SON OF WILLIAM H & EMMA CATTLE. SECOND MATE ON THE STEAM TRAWLER, SABRINA. LOST AT SEA ON 21/05/1915, WITH NINE CREW. HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE LOST TRAWLERMAN OF HULL RECORDS. Sabrina (H 346) FV was a British registered fishing vessel of 179grt that was probably mined by the cruiser Hamburg when 160 miles E […]
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BORN NEWHAVEN, SCOTLAND 18/11/1874. MARRIED ST MATHEWS, BOULEVARD, HULL 26/12/1897. HIS WIFE JESSIE ELIZABETH WATKIN LIVED AT 26, DEVON STREET, HULL. The hull steam trawler MALABAR (H754) left Hull for a fishing trip in the North Sea on 20/12/1915 with 9 crew. She was last seen on January 1916 and posted missing:- lost with nine crew […]
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BORN HULL 1894. SECOND SON OF WILLIAM LEDGER (1869-1937) & EDA PAGE (1870-1898). HE FATHER MARRIED BEATRICE LEDGER (1870-1960) IN 1902, AND LIVED AT 2 NEPEAN GROVE, TYNE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. ONE OF FOUR CHILDREN. A PRINTER'S STOCK KEEPER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 08/09/1914, AGED 20 YEARS AND 2 MON […]
BORN HULL 1882. SON OF RICHARD & MATILDA WALSH.
