Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 1890. SON OF LATE WALTER JAMES (1861-1918) & JANE ELIZABETH BONEWELL (1862-1902), OF 97 DAY STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A COOPER FOREMAN AND REMARRIED. HIS STEP MOTHER WAS EVA MARIA BONEWELL (NEE VENUS), OF 33 GEE STREET, HULL, WHO LOST TWO BROTHERS IN THE WAR - ALBERT VENUS (1894-1915) AND HERBERT VENUS (1897-1916). A […]
Private
BORN HULL 1892.YOUNGEST SON OF THE HARRIET ANN BOYDEN & SAM HARDY, OF 121 WATERLOO STREET, HULL. WIFE MARIA PARKINSON LIVED 11 PRINCES WALK, CRAVEN STREET (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 27 , GEE STREET, HULL, AS PER HDM 07/08//1916. WAS A BLACKSMITH STRIKER. HIS BROTHER SAMUEL HARDY WHO SERVED IN THE SAME REGIMENT WAS KILLED ON 12TH MAY 1917. F […]
BORN HULL 1897. SON OF BENJAMIN WILLIAM & ELIZA CROFT HAWKES AT NUMBERS 12 & 27 GEE STREET, HULL. HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED, ON HULL'S WELLSTED STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 25 September 1916) NB: ARTHUR & WILFRED HAWKES SERVED AT 37 GEE STREET.
Acting Corporal
BORN HULL 1886. ELDEST SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM TAYLOR (1855-1924) & JANET McKENZIE (1860-1933), AT 30 GEE STREET, HULL. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND A BROTHER. HE MARRIED IN HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DURHAM, ON 16/11/1909. HIS WIFE, GERTRUDE NELSON (1866-1964), LIVED AT 38, STATION AVENUE, MORTON GRANGE, CO. DURHAM AND 31, PEARSON STREET, HULL […]
Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 1898. YOUNGEST SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM VARLEY & GERTRUDE BRISTOW, OF 34, GEE STREET, HULL. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/09/1918, AGED 20. LEFT PARENTS, SISTERS, BROTHER (IN FRANCE) AND FIANCEE, PHYLLIS BARKER. (HDM 25/10/1918) Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL RUPERT WARD VARLEY, 225330. Born in October 18 […]
Able Seaman
BORN DONCASTER 27/11/1895. SON OF ALFRED HENRY & BELINDA NEWTON. HIS FATHER REMARRIED FRANCES CHARITY VENUS & HAD 12 CHILDREN. HERBERT LIVED WITH HIS SISTER, EVA MARIA BONEWELL, AT 33 GEE STREET, HULL. HERBERT JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY A YEAR AFTER HIS MOTHER DIED AND HAD SERVED FOR THREE AND HALF YEARS. HE WAS LOST WITH HIS SHIP AT […]
