BORN LEA, LINCOLN 1885. SECOND SON OF JOHN MARSHALL ASHTON & MARY FROM LEA, LINCS. ONE OF THREE SONS. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. LIVED IN HULL ACCORDING TO ARMY RECORDS. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS. ARRIVED IN FRANCE WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, ON 13/08/1914. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 19/09/1914, AGED 29. BU […]
5 SPENCER BUILDINGS, GAINSBOROUGH, , LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
Died on
28/11/1915
Aged
21
BORN HULL 1894. NEPHEW OF MARY JANE ROBINSON, 5 SPENCER BUILDINGS, MORTON, GAINSBOROUGH. WORKED AS AN IRON TURNER. ENLISTED AT GAINSBOROUGH, ON 24/06/1913. REGULAR SOLDIER WHEN WAR BEGAN. SERVED WITH THE 1ST LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS ON 28/11/1915, AGED 21, AT EASTBOURNE HOSPITAL. BURIED IN SUSSEX. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LE […]
BORN HULL 1869. SON OF HENRY AND ELIZA HUDSON. A FORMER RECKITT'S WORKER. HIS WIFE ANNIE MARY (STANLEY) WAS BORN ON 19/11/1896. THEY LIVED AT 10PENZANCE TERRACE, PROVIDENCE ROW, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SERVED AS SERGEANT, IN THE 3RD KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. DIED OF LUNG WOUNDS IN HULL, ON 24/03/1919, AGED 52. BURIED IN […]
Lance Corporal
4 CROSS STREET, GAINSBOROUGH, , LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
Died on
13/10/1915
Aged
24
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JANE BUXTON (1871-1946) AND DAVID GEORGE WILKINSON (1872-1938), OF COURTNEY STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER. MARRIED ROSE HANNAH READ (1890-1964) AT WADDINGTON, LINCOLN, IN 1910. HE WORKED AS A STEEL GRINDER, IN SHEFFIELD (1911 CENSUS). THEN LIVED IN NEW BOLINBROKE, LINCS. HE ENLISTED AT LUTON, BED […]
