Area: Drypool

BORN HULL, 1890. FIFTH SON OF BIANCA MAUD ADELAIDE HUETSON (1861-1942) & JOHN THOMPSON HARRISON, AT 4 VICTORIA TERRACE, DE LA POLE STREET, HULL, (HULL CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD SIX BROTHERS. EMPLOYED AS A SHIP MATE, ON HIS FATHER'S KEEL. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 1ST LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF SICKNESS, IN CALCUTTA, INDIA, ON 29/ […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF WALTER JAMES & JANE ANN JORDAN. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT, AND FRANCE, SURVIVING THE SOMME IN 1916 AND OPPY WOOD, IN 1917. HE WAS KILLED DURING THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 25. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST MARY'S CHURCH MEMORIAL, LOWGATE, HULL. Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL J […]

BORN HULL 07/10/1892. SON OF JOSEPH McGOWAN, (1856-1936) & KATHERINE McGOWAN, OF 9 PROSPECT PLACE, DRYPOOL, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. PRIOR TO ENLISTING HE HAD WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS, FOR OVER THREE YEARS, AS A CRANE LAD AND AS A SHIP PAINTER AND DOCK WORKER. HE MARRIED MARGARET JANE WILLIAMSO […]