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, 87, RAGLAN STREET (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) 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 INFANTR […]

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. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM HENRY HOWGILL (1841-1913) & MRS ELIZABETH CHALLONS (1854-1934), OF,  17, WALTERS TERRACE, NEWLAND AVENUE AND 7, PRINCESS GARDENS, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). HE HAD TWO SISTERS AND THREE HALF SISTERS. HE JOINED THE POSTAL SERVICE, IN 1910, AGED 17. HE WAS A HULL POSTMAN. HE ENLIS […]

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 5TH EYR CYCLIST BATTALION. COMMISSIONED AND TRANSFERRED TO THE ROAYL FLYING CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/04/1917, AGED 22. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF JOHN GRANTHAM SHAWOF 56, NEWLAND AVENUE. HIS WIFE, MAUD SHAW, LIVED AT 61, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL( CWGC ADDRESS). E,PLOYED AS A HOUSE PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 50855, IN THE 1ST EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. TRANSFERRED TO (548220) LABOUR CORPS. DIED AT ST JOH'S VAD HOSPITAL HULL, ON […]

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 […]