Leading Signalman
BORN HESSLE 21/02/1885. SON OF VICTOR ARTHUR ALDOLPHUS (JAMES) AXUP (1844-1911) & HANNAH MARY CHRISTIE (1854-1939), AT 1 FLORAL GROVE, ETON STREET, HULL. MARRIED ELIZABETH DOROTHY MAY OAKLEY, AT ROMFORD, ESSEX IN AUGUST 1910. THEY LIVED AT 'RIVER VIEW', RAINHAM ROAD, DAGENHAM. THEIR DAUGHTER MURIEL WAS BORN IN 1911. A ROYAL NAVY LEAD […]
Private
BORN 1889 NOTTS. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY BARNES, OF 84 MINSTER, MOORGATE, BEVERLEY AND 129 HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL. A GUNSMITH AND MECHANIC. HE MARRIED CLARICE EUGENIA HYDE (1888-1971), AT ELLERKER, ON 01/06/1914. HIS WIFE CLARICE E BARNES & 2 CHILDREN, LIVED AT TEMPERANCE VILLAS, ELLERKER, BROUGH. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY ON 23/05/1 […]
2nd Engineer
BORN HULL 1890. WIFE MRS BELL ABOVE. NAVAL RECORDS. ALL HANDS LOST. On 17/05/1915 the Hull steam trawler MAURITIUS (H547) was posted missing:- Lost with all hands whilst fishing in the North Sea. CREW LOST ON MAURITIUS (H547), missing in the North Sea, presumed to be enemy action, 17th May, 1915. BASSETT, David (22), 5 Filey-grove, Gille […]
BORN HULL 1893. SON OF ARTHUR BENSON & ADA HALL - 8 CROWN PLACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED IN HULL, IN 1912. HIS WIFE ELSIE BARKER & YOUNG SON ALSO CALLED FRANCIS WILLIAM BENSON, LIVED AT 10 ALMA TERRACE, ETON STREET, HULL. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A 'TROLLEY MAN' AND WORKED FOR MANY YEARS FOR MR SAM BATTY, FRUIT MERCHANTS, HESL […]
BORN HULL 25/10/1892. SON OF THOMAS BOULTON BENSON (1857-1893) & SELINA STANTON MUMBY (1861-1901). ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. A REGULAR SOLDIER. ENLISTED HULL. WAS SERVING IN THE CAVALRY (1911 CENSUS). HE DIED OF WOUNDS ON 24/11/1917, AGED 26. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MISS CLARA YOUNG. COMMEMORATED AT THE CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, FRANCE.
BORN HULL 1897. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF MRS M BRACE. BROTHER OF GEORGE, WILLIAM & ANNIE. ST BARNABAS BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE. 1918 ABSENT VOTERS. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN CHADWICK BRACE 27010. Born in July 1897, John was the third of four children to Alfred and Malohla Brace of 9 Clairbrook Avenue, Eton Street, Hessle Road, Hull. […]
Private
BORN HULL 1894. SON OF RICHARD & ADA BROWNLEE, AT 2 WILLIAMS PLACE, RUSSELL TERRACE, MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, ETON STREET. EMPLOYED AS A SHOP ASSISTANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 31/03/1918, AGED 24. A SINGLE MA, BROTHER, TO ETHEL, RICHARD, ARTHUR, JOHN, JAMES AND ALBERT. HIS […]
BORN HULL 30/07/1887. WIFE WILHEMINA LIVED AT 6 ALMA TERRACE, ETON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ETON STREET MEMORIAL, HESSLE ROAD. Lord Roberts, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1907 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 293 tons. On O […]
Private
BORN HULL 1881. HUSBAND OF FRANCES AND SON ROBERT (born 15/04/1915), AT 7 POPLAR AVENUE, REYNOLDSON STREET, HULL AND 4 NEWLAND GROVES, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A RAILWAY PLATE LAYER. AND FORMER TERRITORIAL SOLDIER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. ARRIVED IN FRANCE WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, ON 08/09/1914. SERVED AS PR […]
Apprentice
BORN SUFFOLK 1898. SON OF JAMES CLEVELAND (1863-1905) AND MARY GARWOOD (1866-1951), OF 3 SPURGEON STREET, LOWESTOFT. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN AND FOUR SONS. HE WAS AN ORPHAN LIVING IN HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS AN APPRENTICE, SERVING ON THE STEAM SHIP "ARNDALE". LOST AT SEA, ON 11/06/1915, AGED 17. HIS BROTHERS, SAMUEL AND WILLIAM GARWOOD CL […]
Able Seaman
BORN HULL 29/12/1898. SON OF GEORGE MATSON & KATE CREASER AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY ON 11/07/1914. LOST ON HMS 'STRONGBOW', 17/10/1917, AGED 19. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 17/10/1919. HMS Strongbow, British, R class Destroyer. Whilst escorting a convoy from Norway they were attacked by […]
BORN HULL 1890. SON OF JOHN DEWS (1861-1932) & STEP MOTHER, EMMA ELIZABETH HEPWORTH, OF 84 ETON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 11/12/1915. SERVED WITH THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS GASSED ON 17/03/1917 & DISCHARGED HOME. AWARDED SILVER BADGE (NO: 201936) FOR WAR WOUNDS. DIED AT HOME FROM THE EFFECT […]
Ship Skipper
BORN HULL 1871. SON OF GEORGE GILES EDDOM & ANN (PALMER). A TRAWLER SKIPPER. WIFE ELEANOR LEIGH EDDOM & TWO DAUGHTERS, LIVED AT THIS NAVAL ADDRESS. LOST TRAWLERMAN OF HULL RECORDS. The fishing vessel, WINDWARD HO (H 692) was a British registered steam trawler of 226grt. On the 9th May 1917, when 3 miles S from Peterhead, she was […]
2 ASTON VILLAS, ETON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
27/08/1915
Aged
26
BORN HULL 1889. ELDEST SON THOMAS AND JESSIE EDMONDSON, THIS ADDRESS. WAS A GROCER'S ASSISTANT. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED AT HOLMPTON. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH APPEAR IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 3RD SEPTEMBER 1915. * HIS WIFE BEATRICE (REAVILL) MOVED TO 57 BRIDLINGTON STREET, HYSON GREEN, NOTTINGHAM WITH THEIR TWO CHILDREN MADGE AND RONNIE […]
BORN HULL 1867. SON OF CHARLES EDWARD & MARTHA ELSIE ELLARBY - 89 ETON STREET, HULL. EDUCATED CHURCH STREET SCHOOL. EMPLOYED FOR MAY YEARS AS SKIPPER, WITH THE RED CROSSFLLET OF BOXING TRAWLERS. JOINED THE RNR MINESWEEPER SERVICE ON 06/02/1915. APPOINTED AS SECOND MATE, TO THE MINESWEEPER 'EARL LENNOX', ON 02/01/1916. KILLED OFF THE […]
Merchant Mariner
BORN BARNSATPLE 1876. SON OF CHARLES & BESSIE EVANS. WIFE FLORENCE (WEBSTER). LOST WHILE FISHING LISTED ON THE ETON STREET MEMORIAL, HESSLE ROAD. On November 5th, 1915, the Hull steam trawler JERSEY (H270), built in 1895 by Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd […]
Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 1898. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JOHN & EDITH EXON ABOVE 1901 CENSUS. BOARDING AT 72 LISTER STREET SCHOOL IN 1911.
Deck Hand
BORN CHESTERFIELD, DERBYSHIRE, 06/12/1884. SON OF LEONARD FOSTER (1855-1917) AND HARRIET PAPE. A FISHERMAN. HE MARRIED MARY EDITH HALLIDAY, IN HULL, IN 1902 AGED 17. THEY LIVED AT THIS NAVAL ADDRESS. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. FELL IN GRANVILLE DOCK WHILST BOARDING VESSEL AT DOVER. DROWNED ON 26/11/1915, AGED 30. HE IS BURIED […]
7 BELGRAVE TERRACE, ETON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
25/04/1917
Aged
32
BORN HULL 19/03/1885. SON OF EDWIN & ELLEN GIBBINS AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS A WELL KNOWN FISHERMAN AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ST ANDREWS RECREATION CLUB, WEST DOCK STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED IN 1904. ENLISTED HULL. DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED AT VIMY RIDGE. HE LEFT A WIDOW HANNAH JOHNSON AND FOUR CHILDREN AT 12 JUBILEE TERRACE, SUBWAY STREET. […]
Private
41 CAROLINE PLACE, CHARLES STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
10/05/1917
Aged
24
BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM HALL (1857-1940) AND MARY JANE KAVANAGH (1861-1906), OF CANNON STREET, HULL (1901) AND 41 CAROLINE PLACE, CHARLES STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 24 POPLAR AVENUE, POPLAR STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS) HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON HIS WIFE'S BIRTHDAY. HIS WIFE RESIDED AT 12 HANNAH'S TERRACE, SPYVEE S […]