Area: Hawthorne Avenue

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF GEORGE & MARY SAVILLE, 12 BURLEIGH GR, HAWTORNE AVE. 1918 VOTERS. HE IS BUIRED AT MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT, SEINE-MARITIME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "MAY WE LIVE OUR LIVES MORE WORTHY OF THE LIFE YOU NOBLY GAVE R.I.P" NB: EDWIN RISPIN SAVILLE, WYR - 3 ELMA TERRACE, LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL

Born Hull, 10/08/1896. Son of James Sayers (1860-1900) and Florence McBride Burnham (1875-1953), of 15, Victoria Gardens, Hawthorne Avenue, Hull (War Pension address0. He had three Brothers. he served in the Royal Naval reserve'. Drowned on the Trawler "Speeton", 31/12/1915, aged 19. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent […]

BORN MARKET WEIGHTON. 1895. FOURTH SON OF WILLIAM ROBERT SMITH & CHARLOTTE LOUISE SMITH, OF 93, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) HE ENLISTED BEVERLEY. JOINED THE 10TH HUSSARS (PRINCE OF WALES OWN). LANDED IN FRANCE, ON 06/10/1914. KILLED AT YPRES, ON 13/05/1915, AGED 20. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL'S NORTHUMBERLAND STR […]

BORN HULL 1892. ONLY SON OF THOMAS PEARSON LEE SMITH & HARRIET FANNY (BEAUMONT), OF 314, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL. (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). A RAILWAY GOODS PORTER. HE HAD WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS SINCE HE WAS A LAD. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 11/12/1916, AGED 23 AND 7 MONTHS. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRI […]

FORMERLY OF TORONTO, CANADA. SON OF JOSEPH SPEIGHT ABOVE. WIFE EMMA 9HOPWOOD) SPEIGHT, 30 HALTEMPRICE STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE.

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF EDWARD & GILLIS (STUART) & 5 SONS. WIFE EDITH G (DAVY) LIVED ABOVE. CWGC ADDRESS. BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY

BORN HULL 1896. HULL PAL. DOW. SON OF JOHN GEORGE & JANE ELIZABETH VOAKES ABOVE & ANLABY PARK. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR J BUSH JEWELLERS. HE HAD BEEN WOUNDED ON THE 19TH JULY BUT WAS RETURNED TO HIS REGIMENT. HE WAS WOUNDED SEVERLEY IN THE STOMACH AND DIED IN HOSPITAL, AGED 19. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON […]

BORN SHAFTON, YORKSHIRE 1897. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & ROSE HELEN WESTOBY ABOVE. NER EMPLOYEE.

BORN HULL 14/09/1892. SON OF ROBERT WILCOCKSON (1855-1937) & EMILY SARAH BLACKMAN (1858-1937). ONE OF EIGHT 8 CHILDREN, LIVING AT 84 MELROSE STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED OLIVE PARKINSON (1887-1958), AT HULL, ON 27/02/1916, LIVING AT 8, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, MARY (1916-1987). HE ENLISTED IN THE ROY […]

BORN HULL 1886. LIVED WITH HIS WIFE, ETHEL WOOD, AT 62 WHITE STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HIS AUNT MRS QUICKFALL LIVED AT 80 CAMPBELL STREET. AN ELECTRIC TRAM CAR DRIVER. ENLISTED IN HULL. EX, 8696, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE CUN CORPS, ATTACHED TO THE BLACK WATCH REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 14/10 […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOHN HENRY & MARY WRIGGLESWORTH, OF 312 , HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A SINGLE MAN. NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY (NER) MESSENGER. HIS FATHER WAS A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY (NER) GUARD AND WELL KNOWN IN DAIRYCOATES AREA OF HULL. JOHN HAD ALREADY DONE FOUR YEARS IN THE 1/4TH EYR TERRITORIALS AND WAS A GO […]