BORN HULL 1893. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM (1864-1930) & MARY JANE PENROSE (1866-1914), OF 18 TEMPLE STREET, 3 ENDYMION STREET, HULL AND "THE LIMES" ELLA STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS). PRIOR TO WAR, HE WORKED FOR THE HULL POST OFFICE AS A TELEGRAPHIST. HE ENLISTED WITH HIS TWO BROTHERS, HAROLD AND STANLEY PENROSE. JOINED THE LONDON POST O […]
BORN BRADFORD, 1891. SON OF ANNE JANE & LATE FRANCIS SHAPCOTT. WATER PROOFERS APPRENTICE. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 26. BURIED AT OUTTERSTEENE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, BAILLEUL, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "BELOVED, NOT FORGOTTEN". Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRANCIS SIDNEY SH […]
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ARTHUR HAYWARD WRIGHT 10/856. Born in Hull, on 15/07/1894, the eldest of four children to John and Ada Wright of 96 Legsby Avenue, Grimsby. One of the original Pals, Arthur was a Clerk before the war but queued to enlist in the long lines outside Hull City Hall in the heady days of September 1914. He was […]
