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BORN WILBERFOSS, YORKSHIRE 1885. SON OF HENRY & ELIZABETH ANN ATKINSON AT 144 GLASGOW STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED HULL. EX 50925 EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. TRANSFERRED AS CORPORAL TO THE 102ND MACHINE GUN CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/10/1918, AGED 33. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, EDITH ATKINSON, AT NEWTON H […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRED BECKETT 12/14. Born 1890, Fred was the third of six of children to Alfred Sharpe and Henrietta Beckett, of 6 Trinity Grove, Ella Street, Hull. A Grocer's Assistant by trade he married Gladys Sabrina Dodson at St. Marys on 24th May 1913. He was 23. It had been quite a life. He may have been a simple g […]

BORN ST MARY'S, KENT 1898. SON OF ROSA & WILLIAM BEDFORD AT 75 , GLASGOW STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS, AND THREE SISTERS. A SINGLE MAN. WORKED AS A LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 22/02/1917, AGED 17 YEARS AND 364 DAYS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 36 INCH CHEST, 110 LBS WEIGHT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF GEORGE BIRD (1853-1929) AND SARAH BEST (1855-1935), OF 22 GLASGOW STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. THREE SONS WERE KILLED IN THE WAR. HE ENLISTED AT PETERBORO. SERVED WITH THE 1ST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED 12/09/1916 ON THE SOMME, AGED 28. NOTE: SPELT 'BEARD' IN CWGC RECORD […]

BORN NEWINGTON, 1884. SON OF GEORGE BIRD (1853-1929) AND SARAH BEST (1855-1935), OF 22, GLASGOW STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. THREE SONS WERE KILLED IN THE WAR. A FORMER HULL POLICEMAN ON THE HULL MIDLAND STREET & PORTER STREET PATROL AND FORMER SOLDIER. HE MARRIED ELSIE ELIZABETH PORTER, AT HUL […]

BORN HULL 24/02/1891. YOUNGEST SON OF GEORGE BIRD (1853-1929) AND SARAH BEST (1855-1935), OF 22, GLASGOW STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. THREE SONS WERE KILLED IN THE WAR. A REGULAR SOLDIER. HE MARRIED ETHEL CLARA STICKLEY (1894-1987), IN KENSINGTON, ON 12/02/1916. THEY LIVED AT 15 WEST ROW, KENSAL RO […]

BORN HULL 21/06/1890. SON OF HENRY ALBERT & EMMA BROOM, ABOVE. WIFE SARAH JANE (SEAL) & DAUGHTER, CISSIE (1914-1993), LIVED IN PORTSMOUTH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE  HDM 31/05/1917 & 31/05/1918. HMS INVINCIBLE was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class of three, and the first battlecruiser to be bu […]

BORN HULL 1877. FATHER OF E CROWE. NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS. HMT Egret. launch Date 30/09/1898; Originally a Hull registered trawler (H.21) and owned by Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co., Hull; Requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1918; Vessel torpedoed and sunk without warning, 2 miles E x N of Spurn Light vessel; 11 lives lost including […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF FRANCIS & STEPMOTHER EMMA ELLIS. AT 42, GLASGOW STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A STAFF SERGEANT IN THE BOYS BRIGADE. HE WORKED FOR MR FERRIBY, WALKER STREET, HULL, AS A HAIRDRESSER. HE LIVED AT 38, GLASGOW STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE 10TH HULL PAL'S, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 19. ARRIVED IN FRANCE WITH THE 12T […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF ROBERT FENTON AND MRS BERTHA ANNIE BARNBY, OF 4, AIRIE STREET, HULL AND 87, GLASGOW STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE SERVED AS SAPPER, WR/276852, IN THE 52ND BROAD GAUGE OPERATING COMPANY, ROYAL ENGINEERS. DIED OF A FRACTURED THIGH AND AMPUTATION, AT 30TH GENERAL HOSPITAL, FRANCE, ON 21/12/1918. HIS ARMY E […]

BORN HULL 29/05/1893. SON OF THOMAS GAMBLE (1854-1929) & ANNIE ELIZABETH POUGHER (1855-1932), OF 135 GLASGOW STREET, HULL. BOTH SONS WERE KILLED IN THE WAR. A BUTCHER'S APPRENTICE, EMPLOYED BY MR WASS, BUTCHER, HESSLE ROAD. HE WAS 5 FOOT 6 INCHES TALL, 38 INCH CHEST & WEIGHED 141 LBS. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 17/11/1914. […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1880. SON OF ELIZABETH & THE LATE GALEN HAIRE. WIFE MARY LIVED At 31 GLASGOW STREET, HULL. CITO: Wilsons & North Eastern Railway Shipping Co; 1899; Earle´s Co.; 819 tons; 219.1x30.1x16.5; 144 nhp; 9.5 knots; triple expansion engines. The steamship Cito was intercepted by German torpedo boat destroyers S-53 and V-73 […]

BORN RYEHILL, 21/10/1871. WILLIAM FOX CHAPMAN HARRISON. SON OF MANSFIELD AND SARAH HARRISON.  A FISHERMAN. HE MARRIED EMMA MILLS, IN 1895. THEY HAD TWO SONS, WILLIAM & DAVID HARRISON AND LIVED AT 78 GLASGOW STREET, HULL. THEIR SON DAVID WAS LOST AT SEA, IN WW2 ON 07/03/1941, AGED 30. On 27/05/1915 the Hull steam trawler SOUTHWARD HO […]

BORN DRIFFIELD 1894. SON OF HENRY HODGSON (1867-1943) & ANNIE ELIZABETH BARMBY (1867-1955), OF 95 GLASGOW STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A JOINER. ELDEST OF NINE CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. LATE EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY ENGRAVING COMPANY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 9TH WEST YORKSHIRES. LEFT E […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF GEORGE & CHARLOTTE HOGGARD, OF 10 MAPLE AVE, CONVENT LANE, HULL. HE WORKED FOR THE BRITISH GAS COMPANY, HULL. MARRIED IN JULY 1907, HULL, & LIVED AT 6 DURBAN TERRACE, KIMBERLEY STREET & AND 38, GLASGOW STREET, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL 25/09/1917 ADDRESS). HIS WIDOW, BEATRICE & FOUR CHILDREN MOVED T […]

BORN BRIGG, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1889. SON OF ANYAN HARNES JACKLING (1859-1927) AND JESSIE SOPHIA BRAMLEY (1863-1919), OF 96 EGTON STREET, WITHAM, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. HUSBAND OF SARAH ELIZABETH FARNILL (1888-1983) AND HER FAMILY AT 82 GLASGOW STREET, HULL. HE HAD MARRIED HER, AT ST JOHNS, NEWINGTON, HULL […]

BORN FEATHERSTONE, 1898. SON OF WILLIE AND ANNIE JOHNSON, OF, 79, GLASGOW STREET, HULL. (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE LIVED IN HULL. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRES. KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 23/04/1917, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIE JOHNSON, AT THIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. HE IS CO […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF RICHARD JOLLEY (1860-1916) & HANNAH JOLLEY (1864-1919), OF 148 , GLASGOW STREET, HULL. SON OF A JOINER AND WHEELWRIGHT. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE WAS UNMARRIED, LIVED AT HOME AND WORKED AS A JOINER'S LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 3164 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO […]

BORN HULL 1898. YOUNGEST CHILD OF WILLIAM & MARIA KUNZIE OF 81 , GLASGOW STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS &  WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS PARENTS WERE BOTH BORN IN GERMANY. SON OF A COACH WHEELER AND COACH BUILDER. HE HAD TWO ELDER SISTERS, HELEN AND MARY KUNZIE AND TWO OLDER BROTHERS, CHARLES AND ALFRED KUNZIE (WHO EMIGRATED TO OHIO AND E […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF MARGARET & JOHN LENG, HULL. WIFE LIVED AT 169 HAXLEY ROAD, YORK. HULL HEROES WEBSITE.