Area: Goddard Avenue

BORN LIVERPOOL, 30/04/1898. SON OF WALTER SCOTT BRUCE (1871-1932) & ELVINA ANNIE CAPLIN (1968-), AT 19 , GODDARD AVENUE, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). A CHAIR MAKER. SON OF A LABOURER. HE  HAD TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 02/02/1916, AGED 18. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 30/09/1916. JOINED THE […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. Private, JOHN COMINS 10/31. Born 1896, the middle of three children, and only son, of George William Comins (1872-1942) and Elizabeth Litten (1874-1953). The family resided at 73 Goddard Avenue, Hull (War pension Address). John was a Clerk before the war but must have been in a hurry for some adventure for he was […]

BORN HULL 18/12/1896. SON OF EDWIN & GRACE JOHNSTON (GORDON) DIXON, OF 60, ALEXANDRA ROAD, 78, RAGLAN STREET AND 14, PRINCESS GARDENS, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A STEAM ENGINE FITTER. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A FORMER ERRAND BOY AND BLUNDELLS WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY. LEFT FOR FRANCE, ON […]

BORN HULL 1902. ONLY CHILD OF AMY HESSLEWOOD, A DRESSMAKER, LIVING AT 6 GRIMSTON TERRACE, CLIFTON STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS STEWARD ON THE CARGO SHIP 'CITO' SUNK BY ENEMY GUNFIRE, ON THE 17/05/1917. ELEVEN LIVES WERE LOST AT SEA. EDWARD WAS AGED 15. SS 'CITO': Wilsons & North Eastern Railway Shipping Co; 1899; Ear […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY & MRS ELIZABETH HOWGILL - 17 WALTERS TERRACE, NEWLAND AVENUE. POSTMAN.

BORN LEEDS 12/03/1896. SON OF WALTER MARGERISON (1868-1942) AND JANE MARGERISON (1868-1922), AT 42 RUSSELL STREET, 13 VANE STREET & 18 GODDARD AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE SERVED AS THIRD HAND, ON THE STEAM SHIP 'CHICAGO', SUNK ON 08/07/1918. HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE WW1 HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. HE DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE […]

BORN LEEDS 08/07/1894. SON OF WALTER MARGERISON (1868-1942) AND JANE MARGERISON (1868-1922). EMPLOYED AS A CLERK ALSO A FORMER MEMBER OF THE 1ST HULL SCOUT TROOP. HE ENLISTED IN THE CYCLIST BATTALION. TRANSFERRED TO THE ROAYL FLYING CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/04/1917, AGED 22. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEMORI […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF JOHN GRANTHAM SHAW - 56 NEWLAND AVENUE. WIFE MAUD SHAW, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HOUSE PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER. ENLISTED HULL. TRANSFERRED TO (548220) LABOUR CORPS. DIED AT ST JOH'S VAD HOSPITAL HULL ON 03/03/1919, AGED 29. BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MAUD, HIS WIDOW.

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF FRED & ANNIE M. STOW, OF FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL . HUSBAND OF ALICE MAUD BURLACE STOW, OF 56, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL (AR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS A HULL POLICEMAN. SERVED AS LANCE SERGEANT WITH THE 1ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. CAPTURED IN OCTOBER 1914. AND REPAT […]

BORN SOUTHAMPTON 1884. SON OF CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR (1843-1912) & MARGARET WILLIAMS TAYLOR (1845-1893). HE MARRIED JESSIE MAY (LEWIS) IN HULL IN 1912. THEY LIVED AT 6 GLAISDALE, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL. HE SERVED AS A STEWARD ON THE SS 'KIRKHAM ABBEY', SUNK ON 27/07/1918. HE WAS 34. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONO […]

BORN HULL 1889. ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 27/04/1916. HUSBAND OF FRANCES SOPHIA WILSON, WHO LIVED AT 4 LYNWOOD GROVE, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL. HIS PARENTS LIVED 18 SIDMOUTH STREET, HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 32/609 NFUS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 15TH YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT. DIEDO F WOUNDS, ON 09/10/1917, AGED 28. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A RULLY […]