Area: Hessle Road,

BORN HULL 1886. ONLY SON OF CHARLES (1855-1936) & MARY HOWSON (1853-1940), OF 6, IRENE AVENUE, DURHAM STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS) AND 6, WINSHIP BUILDINGS, STANIFORTH PLACE, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE SISTERS. A FORMER SHIP CARPENTER. HE LIVED IN HULL, WITH HIS UNOFFICIAL WIFE, EDITH KATE JONES (1879-), FOR SIX […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF CHARLES GEORGE JACKSON (1855-1916) & FRANCES JANE JACKSON (1857-1940), OF 62 BACHELOR STREET (1911) & 2 WILBERFORCE STREET, HULL. HUSBAND OF ROSE ANN (CISSIE) WRIGGLESWORTH, WHO HE MARRIED IN 1915. THEY LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE WAS THE ASSISTANT MASTER OF ST GEORGES ROAD, BOYS SCHOOL, HULL. HE SERV […]

BORN BATTERSEA, LONDON, 09/01/1895. SON OF THOMAS EDWARD JACKSON & PRISCILLA ELIZA JACKSON, OF 455 HESSLE ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS. AN OFFICE CLERK, HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS - 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE "HULL COMMERCIALS"). TRANSFERRED TO THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/08/1917, AGED 22. BURIED AT NEW IRISH FAR […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF HARRY JACKSON (1863-1942) & MARY CLARE FALLOWFIELD (1861-1929), OF 50 BRAZIL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) & 34 HESSLE ROAD, HULL. BROTHER OF DOUGLAS & SISTER GERTRUDE JACKSON. A BUSINESS ASSISTANT (1911 CENSUS). HE MARRIED ROSE HILLS IN 1914. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON  13/11 […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF JOHN JAMES JOHNSON AND REBECCA VERNON, OF 630 HESSLE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A FORMER KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS SOLDIER, WHO HAD SERVED FOR THREE YEARS IN EGYPT, HARRY WAS CALLED UP AT THE START OF THE WAR. HE HAD WORKED IN HULL AS A SHUNTER FOR THE NORTH EASTER RAILWAYS. HARRY WENT TO THE FRONT IN AUGUST 1 […]

Originally joined up 06/05/1915 in the East Yorkshire Regiment, and posted to France 10/02/1916. Discharged 18/05/1916, due to eyesight problems, not connected with the war. Re-enlisted in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 02/04/1917, possibly wounded but definitely hospitalised 18/02/1918, and then again 18/09/1918. Shipped back to hospit […]

BORN HULL 09/07/1886. SON OF CHARLES CROSBY JOHNSTON (1861-1915) AND MARY JANE SOUTHWICK (1864-1901), OF 199 HESSLE ROAD, HULL. SHE DIED IN 1901. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. SON OF A BUTCHER, WORKING AT THE SHOP ON 199 HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HE EMIGRATED TO VANCOOVER, CANADA, WHERE HE ALSO WORKED AS A BUTCHER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 9.5 INCHES TALL […]

BORN LIVERPOOL 1861. HE OWNED THE BUTCHERS SHOP AT 199 HESSLE ROAD - ADDRESS FROM HULL DAILY MAIL. HUSBAND TO MARY JANE SOUTHWICK, 4 HIGH STREET, NORTH FERRIBY. HE HAD SEVEN CHILDREN. HIS ELDEST SON CHARLES CROSBY JOHNSTON, DIED ON 19/04/1916 AT YPRES, SERVING WITH CEF. HIS OTHER SON WILLIAM BERNARD JOHNSTON DIED OF FLU ON 14/04/1919 AND […]

BORN HULL 05/11/1884. SON OF THOMAS JORDAN (1847-1907) & MARY JANE WRIGHT (1849-), OF 15 JOHNS TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL. A LABOURER. HE WAS WORKING FOR A COD LIVER OIL MERCHANTS, AT BALNAKET ROW, HULL, WHEN WAR WAS DECALRED. HE MARRIED WIFE GERTRUDE BRADY, AT HULL, IN 1906. THEY HAD A SON, ALSO CALLED RUBEN FREDERICK AND BOARD […]

BORN HULL 13/12/1891. ONLY SON OF RICHARD JACKSON KAY (1860-1938) & HARRIET HARSLEY (1862-1892), OF 97 HESSLE ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A BOAT HOUSE KEEPER. HIS MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS AN INFANT . WORKED AS AN APPRENTICE ENGINE FITTER FOR THE GREAT NORTHERN STEAM FISHING COMPANY (1911 CENSUS) DROWNED OFF NORTH OF IRELAND COAS […]

BORN HULL 1887. SECOND SON OF HENRY JAMES (1859-1897) & MARY ELIZABETH KELSEY (1860-1941). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. A FISH HOUSE LABOURER. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1910. HUSBAND OF ANNA ELIZA EMERY (1888-1975) & TWO CHILDREN, THOMAS AND OLIVE, AT 4, EDGAR STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS), 6, AIREDALE TERRACE, HESSLE ROAD, […]

BORN HULL 1881. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JOHN B & EMILY KIRKBY. WIFE ANNIE KIRKBY LIVED ABOVE. HOUSE PAINTER. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN WILLIAM KIRKBY 33030. Born 1881, the third of eight children, and eldest son, of John and Emily Kirkby. John was a House Painter by trade and husband to Annie with two sons of his own, Horace an […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF THE LATE ROBERT & F J KIRMAN. BURIED AT COJEUL BRITISH CEMETERY, ST. MARTIN-SUR-COJEUL, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP"   NOTE: KIRMAN'S AT 1 FERN TERRACE, ROSE STREET.

BORN LEEDS 1868. BOARDED AT THIS 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS. SERVED AS SHIP'S COOK ON THE FISHING TRAWLER 'QUAIR'. LOST AT SEA, WITH ALL HANDS ON 03/11/1916. HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE LOST TRAWLERMEN OF HULL RECORDS. QUAIR (H237), missing, presumed to be enemy action, 3rd November, 1916. BOOTH, James (41), 14 Cedar-Gr, Eastbourne St, Hull. Bo […]

BORN HULL 1885. YOUNGER SON OF ELIZABETH MITCHELL, OF 22, SOVEREIGN PLACE, WILLIAM STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, JOHN AND TWO MARRIED SISTERS. HE MARRIED AT HULL, ON 16/08/1909. HIS WIFE, ANNIE PITMAN, LIVED AT, 143, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS); 342, SOUTH BOULEVARD, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS), AND 47, BEAN STR […]

BORN NORMANTON, YORKSHIRE, 21/06/1887. LIVED SHOTLEY, SUFFOLK. PARENTS ALBERT HENRY & LOUISA ANN MOISEY ABOVE NAVY RECORDS. CWGC RECORDS THE  16/08/1915 AS THE DATE THAT HE DIED. HMT Japan, built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby in 1904 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 205 tons. On Augus […]

BORN ANCOATS, MANCHESTER 1897. SON OF THOMAS & CATHERINE MOISEY, OF 80 EVERY STREET, ANCOATES, MANCHESTER. HE ENLISTED IN MANCHESTER. SERVED WITH THE 1/7TH MANCHESTER REGIMENT. KILLED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 04/06/1915, AGED 18. COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL, TURKEY. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL'S WALKER STREET WW1 MEMORIAL. HIS LOCAL […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF FREDERICK WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1867-1945) & SARAH EMMA GREENWOOD (1871-1965), OF 30, GRANVILLE STREET, ANLABY ROAD, HULL. (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A GOODS AND RAILWAY SIGNALMAN. ELDEST OF FIVE CHILDREN. A FORMER BOOKINGS CLERK AND EX BLUNDELL'S PAINT WORKER. 515 HESSLE ROAD, WAS HIS 1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS. H […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF FRED NORTH & ELIZABETH ISABELLA WATSON, THIS ADDRESS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS IN GLASGOW ON 26/10/1916, AGED 19. BURIED IN HULL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED HIS FATHER FRED. HE LEFT TWO BROTHERS FRED AND THOMAS AND A SISTER FLORENCE.

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF ALEXANDER & ANNIE OWEN OF 84 HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HIS GRANDFATHER JOHN CAPES LIVED AT  64 WEST DOCK AVENUE, HULL. HE ENLISTED HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 10/08/1915, AGED 21. HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE LIVERPOOL STREET SHRINE, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (Hull Daily Mail […]