Area: High Street

BORN HULL 1890. ELDEST SON OF KENNETH WATT MURESS (1856-1906) & MARY ELIZABETH NEWTON (1857-1937), OF 114 POST OFFICE ENTRY, HIGH STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A DRUG PACKER (1901 CENSUS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE MARRIED BERTHA HANSELL ( 1889-1963), IN HULL, JANUARY 1915. THEY LIVED AT 2 RUGBY TERRACE, HARROW STREET, […]

BORN HULL 1897. ONLY SON OF ALICE STAPLES (1873-1959) & THE LATE ROBERT OLIVER (1874-1911). HE ENLISTED, HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 03/05/1915, AGED 19. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE, MEMORIAL, YPRES. HE LEFT FOUR YOUNGER SISTERS. HIS DEATH & PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF WILLIAM REDFEARN (1857-1930) & ABIGALE CLARKE (1862-1914), OF 25 BLUE BELL ENTRY, HIGH STREET, HULL. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN AND FOUR BROTHERS SERVING. HE LEFT A WIDOW, AGNES AND DAUGHTER, MARY, AT 1 BEECH GROVE, ARUNDEL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD SERVED TEN YEARS IN THE ARMY, INCLUDING FIVE YEAR […]

BORN HULL 1892. DRYPOOL. SECOND SON OF CHARLOTTE & THE LATE GEORGE RIPPON. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. WORKED AS A SHOP ASSISTANT. ENLISTED HULL. DIED AS A PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY, ON 18/10/1918, AGED 26. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MARYS CHURCH, LOWGATE MEMORIAL. BURIED: Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

BORN HULL 1879. YOUNGEST SON OF JOSEPH RUDKIN (1833-1899) AND BETSY BURTON (1837-1917). THE FAMILY LIVED AT 8 EDGAR TERRACE, ARUNDLE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD FIVE SISTERS AND THREE BROTHERS. EMPLOYED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE MARRIED ELIZABETH FRISTON, AT HULL, ON 20/01/1916. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX 15840, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIM […]

BORN HULL 1884. SECOND SON OF RICHARD SAXBY (1852-1924) AND ESTHER GALLON HARRISON (1855-1904). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS.  A DOCK LABOURER, LIVING WITH HIS WIFE, LUCY AT 34 SWANN STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED AT HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 13/07/1915. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM SHANN & MARIA LEAF (1870-1941). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A LABOURER. ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 25012, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE CAMBRIDGE REGIMENT. DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS, AT HOME, ON 24/01/1917, AGED 23. BURIED HEDON CEMETERY, HUL […]

BORN HULL 1892. ENLISTED HULL. PARENTS - HERBERT & PHOEBE S SKELTON. HE WAS 23 YEARS OLD, SINGLE AND LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER AT 20 BLUE BELL ENTRY. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 5TH JULY 1915. HE DIED OF WOUNDS REEIVED ON THE 28TH JUNE AT THE GENERAL HOSPITAL BOULONGE. THE MATRON OF THE HOSPITAL SAID AN OPERATION HAD […]

BORN HULL 1895. ENLISTED 14/9/14 HULL. MARRIED ETHEL MAY KEMP AT ST MARYS ON 11.2.18. WAS A POW GASSED. LABOURER. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ERNEST SMETHURST 3/6334. Tonight we have a tale of two Ernest Smethurst's. Born a few months apart as 1895 became 1896, one the eldest of five children to Alfred and Kitty Smethurst of 6 Ash G […]

BORN FILEY, YORKSHIRE 1898. SON OF SAMUEL W. SPIVEY (1861-1931) AND ANNIE ELIZABETH  SPIVEY, OF 3 TEMPLE ENTRY, HIGH STREET, HULL AND 50 HARROW STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN MALTON. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HE DIED OF WOUNDS AT THE 48TH CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, ON 26/01/1918, AGED 32. HIS […]

BORN HULL 1889. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM & MARY E STANIFORTH ABOVE AND GRIMSBY LANE, MARKET PLACE, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN FIRST MONTHS OF THE WAR. HIS YOUNGER BROTHER CHARLES STANIFORTH, KNOWN AS 'WAGG', WAS A EYR RESERVIST AND WAS CALLED UP AGAIN AT THE START OF THE WAR. AFTER BEING IN FRANCE FOR NINE MONTHS 'WAGG' WAS RETURNED TO ENGLAN […]

Harold Thompson was born on 14 November 1896 at 3, Dryden's Entry, Salthouse Lane, Hull, the third child of William, a tugboat fireman, and Kate Thompson, of 22, Blue Bell Entry, Lowgate, Hull (War Pension address). His mother died three years later of Septicaemia and Bronchitis and by 1901 his father and the three children were sharing […]

BORN HULL 1878. SON OF THE LATE SAMUEL WAUDBY & MARY ANN (TODD) WAUDBY. BROTHER TO HERBERT, SAMUEL, FLORENCE AND MARY. A WELL KNOWN HARBOURSIDE AND TRANSPORT WORKER IN HULL. HE MARRIED GERTRUDE ANNIE BETTS AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HULL, ON 22/06/1902. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN. LIVED AT 11 HIGSON COURT, BLANKE ROW, HULL. HE ENLISTED HULL […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF THE LATE HARRY (1867-1918) AND CATHERINE (KATE) SMALES, OF 14 ST PETERS TERRACE, GREAT UNION STREET, HULL AND 6 GEORGE YARD, HIGH STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). SON OF A BUTCHER. EMPLOYED AS A FLOUR MILLER BY TRADE. DESCRIBED AS F5 FOOT, 7 INCHES TALL, 34-36 INCH CHEST, 132 LBS WEIGHT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 23/05/ […]