Area: Durham Street

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF HENRY BURDEN AND ELLEN REED. BOTH HIS PARENTS DIED IN 1918. EMPLOYED AS A PLUMBER, GLAZIER AND GAS FITTER. HIS WIFE FLORENCE BURDEN, LIVED AT 110 ESCOURT STREET, HULL, AND THIS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS SAPPER, 474500, IN THE THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 18/06 […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF ADELA JANE COLMAN & SEA CAPTAIN, CHARLES W. G. COLMAN, OF 20, DURHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER WILLIAM AND TWO SISTERS, ISABELLA AND DOROTHY. A FORMER BANK CLERK. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED IN THE TERRITORIALS FOR FOUR YEARS. ENLISTED HORNSEA, 16/03/1915. EX PRIVATE, […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF WILLIAM & CHARLOTTE E. COX - 5 POPLAR GROVE, NORNABEL STREET (1911 CENSUS). LOST BY ENEMY ACTION ON 17/05/1917, AGED 18. HIS DEATH IS RECORDED ON THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON. HE IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS AND RECORDED ON THE TRINITY HOUSE SCHOOL MEMORIAL. SS Lewisham, built by W. Gray & […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF THOMAS WILLIAM CROSS & MARTHA PIZER, OF 3 DURHAM STREET, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A WAREHOUSE MAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 26/05/1916. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 23898, 'B' COMPANY, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SENT TO FRANCE ON 18/09/1916. TAKEN PRISONER ON 23/03/1918. HE DIED OF INFLUENZA, AT CALAIS, ON 11/12/1918, AGED 19. HE […]

BORN HULL 30/09/1894. SECOND SON OF FREDERICK ROBERT DEAN & SARAH DEAN, OF 9, BURLEIGH GROVE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 104, HIGH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) SON OF A LITHOGRAPHER. ONE OF THREE CHILDREN. A LABOURER AND EX RECKITT'S WORKER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8.5 INCHES TALL, 36 INCH CHEST, BLUE EYES, DARK BROWN HAIR. […]

BORN HULL 1891. CHARLES DICKENS WAS THE SON OF JAMES JABEZ DICKENS & JANE BAMFORD. HIS FATHER HAD DIED IN 1912. HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. A HULL TEACHER & MEMBER OF THE EAST HULL CONSERVATIVE CLUB. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 3048, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES, ON 25/04/191 […]

BORN THIRKLEBY, YORKS, 1893. ELDEST SON OF ARTHUR & ELIZA FINCE, OF 100 DURHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A GROCER'S ASSISTANT. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WENT OUT TO FRANCE WITH COLONEL SHAW, IN APRIL 1915, AND HAD SERVED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN WITHO […]

BORN GRIMSBY 1877. KNOWN AS 'HENRY FLEMME/FLEMING', NAMED AFTER BOTH HIS GRANDFATHERS - WILLIAM SPEIGHT & HENRY FLEMME. SON OF HERMANN FLEMME & LUCY SPEIGHT. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN WATH UPON DEARNE, WEST YORKSHIRE. SHE DIED AGED 40, THREE WEEKS AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO HER SON ALBERT. HIS STEP MOTHER WAS ELIZABETH ANN (BANNISTER/COO […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF DENTON GARDAM (1832-1911) AND MARY MORRELL (1842-1900). HIS PARENTS WERE BOTH DECEASED WHEN THE WAR BEGAN. HE HAD BROTHERS, HERBERT AND WILLIAM DENTON GARDAM AND SISTERS, FLORENCE, ANNIE AND ADA. EMPLOYED AS A MERCHANT'S CLERK. HE MARRIED ON 15/03/1910, AT HARLEY STREET REGISTRY OFFICE. HIS WIFE EDITH HORNER (1886 […]

BORN HULL 1884. SCULCOATES. ELDEST SON OF ROBERT GEORGE HAMILTON & JANE ELIZABETH ROBINSON. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. A TINNER BY TRADE. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS A SAPPER IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 17/04/1917, AGED 34. HIS ARMY EFFESTS WERE RETURNED TO BOTH PARENTS. HE IS BURIED AT LE TREPORT MILITARY CEMETERY, SEINE MARI […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF WILLIAM JAMES & MARY ANN HODGSON. LIVED EASINGTON IN 1901, AND THIS ADDRESS (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS A WOOD CARVER APPRENTICE. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED ON 25/05/1918, AGED 24.HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 31ST DECEMBER 1918, […]

BORN CANNING TOWN, ESSEX 1890. SON OF ELIZABETH & GEORGE TURNER HUSDSON, AT 58 DURHAM STREET, HULL. THEIR THREE AND ONLY SONS ALL SERVED IN THE WAR. JOSEPH HUDSON ENLISTED AT CANNING TOWN, LONDON. SERVED IN THE 7TH , 9TH & 11TH RIFLE BRIGADE. WAS IN FRANCE FOR ELEVENS MONTHS, BEFORE BEING WOUNDED IN 1916. HE WAS KILLED ON 20/09/1 […]

BORN HULL 1891. AN ORPHAN. FORMER SEAMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 10 INCHES TALL, 140 LBS, AND A 37 INCH CHEST. ENLISTED IN THE ARMY, IN HULL, ON 15/11/1915. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED FRANCE, 06/05/1916. KILLED IN ACTION AT MAMETZ, 18/08/1916, AGED 25. HE HAD SERVED 278 DAYS IN THE ARMY. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF ALFRED MIDFORTH (1860-1936) & ADA ANNIE PAPE (1867-1949), OF 1 RICHMOND TERRACE, DURHAM STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ALSO LIVED AT 6 HERBERTS TERRACE, WALLER STREET AND 7 BELLE VIEW, MIDDLEBURG STREET, HULL, WITH HIS TWO SISTERS ADA AND FLORENCE. HE WORKED AS A SAW MILLER AND FIREMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5 […]

BORN SPALDING, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1895. SON OF FREDERICK HENRY PICK AND SARAH ANN PICK AT THIS HULL ADDRESS (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A CARETAKER. HE WORKED AS A GROCER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/11/1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER FREDERICK. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE C […]

BORN HULL 1889. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM & MINNIE PORTER, OF 35 CLARENDON STREET, HULL. HIS WIFE, MARGARET H PORTER, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. A FORMER NER EMPLOYEE. VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE WITH THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR 19 MONTHS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS WHILE RESCUING WOUNDED, ON THE 11/11/1916, AGED 27. HIS […]

BORN HULL 1885. LIVED HESSLE. ENLISTED HULL. FORMER NER WORKER. WIFE MABEL JEANETTE PLOUGHER, 14 WELL GARDEN, BEVERLEY & AT 3 CHURCHILL CRESCENT, DURHAM STREET, HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRES IN EGYPT AND FRANCE, BADLY WOUNDED ON THE 13/11/1916. HE DIED OF THESE WOUNDS, 04/02/1917, AGED 32. HE WAS BURIED AT HOME WITH […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF WILLIAM SMITH (1856-1942) & ANN SUSANNAH THIRSBY (1859-1925), OF 134, DURHAM STREET, HULL AND 128 SEVERN STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 28/04/1917, AGED 20. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY PENSION WENT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM. LISTED IN IRELAND' […]

BORN HORNCLIFFE, NORTHUMBERLAND, 1894. ONLY CHILD OF WILLIAM STEPHEN & HELEN (LAIDMAN), AT THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. AN APPRENTICE JOINER. HE ENLISTED IN THE 529TH EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS BEFORE THE WAR, ON 28/04/1913. ARRIVED FRANCE, 17/09/1915. KILLED IN ACTION AT ARRAS, ON 18/06/1917, AGED 24. HE HAD SERVED 4 YEARS AND 52 D […]