Area: Driffield, East Riding

BORN HULL 1883. A SHEPHERD AND FARM SERVANT. LIVED AND WORKED IN DRIFFIELD. HE JOINED THE ARMY ON 19/07/1913. SERVED AS A WAGGONER IN THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS. HE MARRIED IN DECEMBER 1916. HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH ANN ARNELL (1879-1962) & 4 CHILDREN, LIVED AT THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 140 LBS WEIGHT, 39 INC […]

BORN HULL 1894. LIVED WITH HIS GRANDPARENTS, BENJAMIN AND MARY BARNICOAT, AT 4, MERRICK STREET, HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL TRINITY HOUSE NAVAL SCHOOL BEFORE THE WAR, HE  SERVED AS AN APPRENTICE AT THE WILSON LINE. ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR HE RECEIVED A COMMISSION WITH THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. HE RECEIVED HIS SEAMAN'S CERTIFICATE ON 30/03/1916. […]

BORN DRIFFIELD. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 13394, 9TH KING'SOWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/01/1916. BURIED AT CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES, NORD, FRANCE.

Born Fridaythorpe, Yorks. 1893. Enlisted Driffield. Son of Thomas and Sarah Gibson, of Brunswick Terrace, West Gate, Driffield, Yorks. Listed as a Hull Casualty in the Hull Daily Mail 08/11/1917.

BORN DRIFFIELD 1897. ENLISTED HULL. EX 1335 EYR. SON OF ROBERT & CAROLINE ELIZA GRIFFIN, SCARBOROUGH ROAD, DRIFFIELD.

BORN DRIFFIELD 1887. SON OF ROBERT CAULTON MAYNARD (1866-1952) & MARY ANN LEIGHTON (1869-1931), OF DRIFFIELD. SON OF A COACHMAN AND GROOM. HE HAD TWO SISTERS, MARY AND AMY. HE MARRIED WINIFRED ANN LLOYD (1893-1961), AT ROTHERHAM, IN 1915. THEY LIVED AT 8 BADSLEY STREET, ROTHERHAM AND HAD TWO SONS, GORDON AND ROBERT HE ENLISTED AT H […]

BORN HULL 1892. LIVED SUNDERLANDWICK. ENLISTED DRIFFIELD. SON OF ALBERT NALTON AND MARY EMMA RUSSELL, 54 EAST GATE, NORTH DRIFFIELD. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN, INCLUDING TWIN SISTERS. HE WAS A POLISHER APPRENTICE BY TRADE. HE MARRIED MARY EMMA CORNER IN DRIFFIELD IN 1913. DIED OF WOUNDS AT CANADIAN CLEARING STATION ON 8TH AUGUST 1916, AGED 2 […]

BORN DRIFFIELD 1895. HIS PARENTS WERE FROM HULL. SON OF ALBERT AND EMMA NALTON. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN, INCLUDING TWIN SISTERS ANNIE & FLORENCE. A TAILOR'S APPRENTICE. ENLISTED DRIFFIELD. KILLED IN ACTION ON 23 SEPTEMBER 1914, AGED 19. HIS OLDER BROTHER FRED ALBERT NALTON, WHO WAS BORN IN HULL, DIED OF WOUNDS ON 6TH AUGUST 1916

BORN CAMERTON, RYEHILL, HULL 1895. SON OF MR JOHN WILLIAM NETTLETON (1874-1936) & SARAH ELIZABETH FEWSON (1870-1900). HE EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA. WORKED AS A LABOURER, IN ADELAIDE. ENLISTED IN OAKLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, ON 06/01/1915, AGED 19. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6.5 INCHES TALL, 147 LBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST, LIGHT BLUE EYES, AND BRO […]

BORN HULL 1896. KNOWN AS 'HARRY'.  ELDEST SON OF HENRY ROTHENBURG (1869-1912) & MARIA AUGUSTE EMILLIE WOLTER (ANNIE ROTHENBURG) (1876-1944), OF 16 WEST GATE, DRIFFIELD. BOTH HIS PARENTS WERE BORN IN GERMANY. THEY HAD LIVED IN HULL SINCE 1881 RESIDING AT 7 SEWER LANE. HARRY ROTHENBURG ENLISTED IN LIVERPOOL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 1726 DE […]

Born Hutton Cranswick, 1889. Son of Thomas Waites Tomlinson (1853-1931), of North Frodingham, Driffield, Yorks, and the late Mary Jane Bentley (1859-1921). Son of a farm labourer at Hutton Cranswick. He had eight brothers and six sisters. Four sons died in the war:- Private Thomas Bielby Tomlinson, 201348, 1/4th EYR. Killed in action, […]

BORN BEEDFORD, YORKSHIRE, 1882. SON OF JAMES AND ANN A FARM LABOURER. LIVED DRIFFIELD. MARRIED SARAH SLEIGHT IN 1907. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 2ND DUBLIN FUSILIERS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 16/10/1917, AGED 35 . HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW  SARAH TURNER, OF NORTH FRODINGHAM, DRIFFIELD. HIS SERVICE RECORDS STATE THAT HE W […]

BORN HARPHAM, EAST RIDING IN 1891. SON OF FREDERICK WILLIAM AND ANNIE ULLYOTT, FARMERS IN HARPHAM, DRIFFIELD. EX HULL SOLICITOR. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED A SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (CYCLISTS). KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/08/1918, AGED 27. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HE LEFT £426 IN HIS WILL TO […]

BORN HULL. LIVED DRIFFIELD. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. EX 231465 ASC. SON OF WILLIAM WALGATE, 16 LOCKWOOD STREET, DRIFFIELD.

BORN LANGTOFT 1891.  SON OF WILLIAMSON GUY WHARRAM (1855-1936) & MARY ELIZABETH ETHERINGTON (1861-1930), OF LANGTOFT, LOWTHORPE, DRIFFIELD, EAST YORKSHIRE. EDUCATED AT HULL'S.  HE WAS A STUDENT TEACHER. SERVED AS LIEUTENANT IN 52ND SQUADRON, ROYAL FLYING CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/03/1918, AGED 26. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL'S H […]