Area: Folkestone Street

BORN PONTEFRACT 1897. SON OF WILLIAM & ANNIE BENN WHO LIVED ABOVE. HE WAS EXPLOYED IN HULL AS AN ASSISTANT LICORICE REFINER. BOARDED WITH HIS FATHER AT 20 FOLKESTONE STREET DURING THE 1911 CENSUS. HE ENLISTED IN CENTRAL HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH DUKE OF CORNWALL LIGHT INFANTRY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/08/1917, AGED 20. COMME […]

BORN SUTTON, 1880. SON OF WILLIAM SCAIFE & MARTHA ESTER BLAKEY, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 04/11/1915, AGED 34, AT ETAPLES GENERAL HOSPITAL. HE WAS UNMARRIED AND HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE DIVIDED BETWEEN HIS MOTHER MARTHA AND SISTERS ALICE, ADA […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF CHARLES & CATHERINE COLLINS, OF 1354, SPRING BANK WEST, HULL. BROTHER OF CHARLES, STANLEY, MABEL AND ELSIE. HE WORKED AS A FRENCH POLISHER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 138 LBS WEIGHT, 35 INCH CHEST. HE MARRIED GERTRUDE ALICE CHEESEBROUGH, ON 14/10/1909, AT HULL'S HARLEY STREET REGISTRY OFFICE. THEY LI […]

Private, FREDERICK CUDBERTSON 11/545. Born in October 1892, Frederick was the only child of Frederick Gale Cudbertson, D.S.C,  (1873-1938) and the late Annie Ricketts (1870-1894), of 7, Fern Grove, Folkestone Street, Hull (CWGC address). An Oil Miller by trade, he was employed by Bon Accord Oil Mills, Wincolmlee. He enlisted at City Ha […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF CHARLES FREDERICK HARDY & BERTHA MARY POYSER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN, 5 DOVER TERRACE, NORWOOD STREET. ON ABSENT VOTERS ELECTORAL REGISTER AT THIS ADDRESS. ENLISTED AT YORK. SERVED IN THE 17TH NFUS RAILWAY PALS BATALLION. DIED ON 13/03/1918, AGED 21. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING ON THE SO […]

BORN HULL 1895. HULL PAL. BOARDER AT ABOVE ADDRESS 1911. LABOURER Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRANK HOLMES 10/305. Born in Hull and one of the original Pals, Frank enlisted in the early days of September 1914 training in Yorkshire throughout the following year before shipping out to Egypt in December 1915. He fought to defend the Su […]

BORN STANFORD, YORKSHIRE, 1892. ONLY SON OF MATHEW JAMES KIRKMAN (1864-1925) & LOUISE HELEN HABBERSHAW (1866-1952), AT 62 SOMERSCALES STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD (1911 CENSUS) AND 46 , FOLKESTONE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A BUILDER. AND BROTHER TO THREE SISTERS, ELIZABETH, EVERLYN AND LAVINIA. PRIOR TO ENLISTING HE WORKED FOR MES […]

BORN LEEDS 03/10/1887. STEP SON OF JOHN MUSK ACKLAM (1851-1891) AND SARAH JANE GREEN. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. A TIME EXPIRED FORMER SOLDIER IN THE 3RD YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND IN CIVILIAN LIFE, A PAINTER. HE MARRIED, MABEL SMITH (1891-1929), IN LEEDS, ON 04/03/1910. HIS WIFE, MABEL MUSK AND DAUGHTER ALICE, LIVED 16 BRISTOL STREET, LEEDS, 1, […]

BORN ST JOHNS, NEWINGTON, HULL 1896. SON OF GUNNER, ROBERT LACEY OXLEY & MARY KEIGHTLEY, OF 117, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL. ONE OF 5 CHILDREN. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 10 FENCHURCH STREET, 117 STEPNEY LANE, & 117 SCULCOATES LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A CLERK. RESIDED AT 44, FOLKESTONE STREET, HULL HE ENLISTED IN HULL. […]

BORN SCARBOROUGH 1887. WORKED AS A PORTER IN A BOARDING HOUSE. MARRIED IN HULL IN 1909. WIFE MABEL ANN PRESTON LIVED ABOVE. ENLISTED SCARBOROUGH. ATTACHED TO THE ROYAL ENGINEERS, 32ND DIVISIONAL SIGNAL COMPANY. HE RECEIVED THE MILITARY MEDAL FOR GALLANTRY. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS WIDOW, MABEL, AFTER HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF HENRY & KATE ROSINDALE, OF 7, SALTBURN AVENUE, FOLKESTONE STREET, HULL. HE WAS A CARPENTER AND ORGAN BUILDER. HE MARRIED IN 1914. HIS WIFE SARA ANN TAYLOR LIVED AT 64, PRINCES ROAD, HULL. HE DROWNED, ON THE STEAM SHIP 'DIDO', SUNK ON 26/02/1916, AGED 29. ONLY THREE SURVIVED THE SINKING. 26 CREW WERE LOST. HIS […]

BORN ST GILES, ESSEX 1886. ONLY SON OF JAMES SEABORNE (1846-1932) AND FLORA KEMP (1862-1933), OF COLCHESTER, ESSEX. HE HAD TWO SISTERS, CONSTANCE AND GRACE AGNES. A PROFFESIONAL SOLDIER BEFORE WAR BEGAN. HE SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY (1911 CENSUS). HE MARRIED ETHEL KATE BRADSTREET (1886-1953), FROM 76, PLANE ST […]

BORN LEEDS 1891. SON OF GEORGE AND MARTHA ELIZABETH STAMP (1851-1911) OF, 4, BETA VILLAS, MAYFIELD STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A HULL CORPORATION LABOURER ERNEST ALSO WORKED FOR THE HULL CORPORATION, AS AN ELECTRIC CAR CONDUCTOR. HE WAS A TRAMWAY MOTORMAN, ON THE BEVERLEY ROAD ROUTE, FOR EIGHT YEARS. HE MARRIED EVA LE COUTEUR, A […]

BORN WILMINGTON, HULL 1897. SON OF GEORGE MARSHALL STEELE & (POLLY) MARY ESCRITT, AT THIS ADDRESS. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. LEFT ROBERT, ARTHUR, & GEORGE ABOVE. ENLISTED HULL EX.1749 EYR. TRANSFERED TO THE 51ST MACHINE GUN CORPS. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 4/09/1918, AGED 22. BURIED WIMILLE. HE IS NOT LISTED ON ST MARY'S CHURCH MEMORIAL. BURI […]

Corporal, WILLIAM ERNEST USHER 11/241. Born in Rise, East Yorkshire in 1883 William was the youngest of three children to Thomas and Elizabeth Usher. He had a brother, William and sister, Lilian. He was a Hull Corporation Tram Driver by trade. He married Florence Jane Dickinson, on 9th June 1904 and the couple lived at 60, Folkestone St […]