Area: Hornsea, East Riding

BORN ATWICK 1892. SON OF GEORGE BINNING (1860-1942) AND ESTHER ELLEN STAVELEY (1859-1945), OF 37 SOUTHGATE, HORNSEA. ONE OF TWO SONS. A JOINER AND WHEELWRIGHT. UNMARRIED. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS ON 19/09/1914. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT 6.5 INCHES TALL, 137 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST, BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR, A PERMANENT […]

Private Fred Brooks 17/1122 (1879-1917) 17th (Pioneer) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers Fred was born Charles Frederick Brooks in Hull in 1879 and from a very early age he lived with his Grandparents, Charles and Jane Rudd in Brantingham near Hull. He married Rose Simpson in Hornsea on the 22nd December 1904 and they lived in Southgat […]

BORN HULL 06/04/1879. SON OF CHARLES BROOKS, OF BRANTINGHAM, BROUGH, EAST YORKSHIRE. RAISED BY GRANDPARENTS AT 24 REED STREET, HULL. HUSBAND OF  ROSE SIMPSON & EIGHT CHILDREN, AT 9 SOUTHGATE GARDENS, HORNSEA (CWGC ADDRESS) EMPLOYED AS A RAILWAY PLATER. HE ENLISTED ON 06/01/1915. SERVED WITH THE RAILWAY PALS, THE 17TH NORTHUMBERLAND […]

BORN HULL 1891. SECOND SON OF MRS ELEANOR & THE LATE R H CANNELL OF 9 CLIFFORD STREET, HORNSEA. ONLY HAD ONE OLDER BROTHER - ROLAND. WALTER WAS UNMARRIED AND HAD NO CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A HOUSE FURNISHER ASSISTANT. LIVED WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER ELLEN SEDON, AT 263 SPRING BANK AND 1 CLAREMONT TERRACE, DAY STREET, HULL. WALTER ENLISTED […]

BORN HULL 1881. ONLY CHILD OF THE LATE THOMAS COOPER. HE MARRIED MARY JANE CHAPMAN AT SKIRLAUGH, IN 1909. THEY LIVED WITH THEIR SON THOMAS, AT 49 SOUTHGATE, HORNSEA. WORKED AS A FARM LABOURER. ENLISTED IN HORNSEA, ON 06/12/1915. POSTED TO THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 11/12/1916. KILLED AT PASSCHENDAELE, ON 04/10/1917, AGED 36. HE […]

BORN HORNSEA 1899. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM FOWLER & ELIZABETH BARKER, AT SOUTHGATE, HORNSEA (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HE HAD ONE ELDER SISTER, MARIA. HE ENLISTED IN HORNSEA. POSTED AS PRIVATE, 3235, LINCOLNSHIRE YEOMANRY. TRANSFERRED TO THE 10TH ESSEX REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/09/1918, AGED 19. CO […]

BORN HULL 02/02/1885. Son of John Hamshaw (1857-1936) and Elizabeth Briggs (1860-1901), of Hull and 30 Clifford Street, Hornsea. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, JOSEPH, KILLED IN 1918 AND ONE SISTER, GWENDOLINE (1887-1944). HE WORKED FOR FLOUR MILLS AS A TRAVELLING SALESMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8.5 INCHES TALL, 37-39 INCH CHEST, 137 LBS WEIGHT […]

BORN CHADDLEWORTH, BERKSHIRE 1871. SON OF JOHN HEDLEY (1830-1866) & ANN COLLEY. HE MARRIED AT NEWCASTLE IN 1900. HIS WIFE ADA MARIE BAINBRIDGE AND TWO CHILDREN (JOAN AND JOHN) LIVED IN HORNSEA. HE WAS AN INLAND REVENUE DISTRICT VALUER AND MASONIC MEMBER. AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR HEDLEY WAS ATTACHED TO THE TERRITORIALS AND WENT TO FRANC […]

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF HENRY & SARAH HILL, OF 45 CAVE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). A COAL DEALER. HE MARRIED ETHEL HUNTER (1884-1978) AT NEWLAND, HULL, ON 09/09/1909, AGED 26. HIS WIFE ETHEL HILL LIVED AT 6 VICTORIA AVENUE, HORNSEA AND 4 BROOKLYN VILLAS, BROOKLYN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, […]

BORN HORNSEA 1871. SON OF GEORGE & ELLEN KEITH. MARRIED ELIZABETH GREEN, IN HULL IN 1903. THEY LIVED AT 50 SOUGHGATE, HORNSEA. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 3RD WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED IN NEWCASTLE, ON 30/12/1914, AGED 43. BURIED AT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (ST. ANDREW'S AND JESMOND) CEMETERY.

Born Hornsea, 20/06/1898. Son of Arthur Lunn and Adelaide Dinah Blythe. Educated in Hull. He was a student in Hull, with a sucessful educational career. Alos a keen sportsman in Hull. He enlisted in Beverley, on 23/02/1917. Formerly 19213, Machine Gun Corps. Transferred to the Roayl Tank Corps. Died of wounds, on 16/08/1918, at No: casua […]

BORN HORNSEA 1882. SON OF CHARLES E A & BETSIE (CHEW) LYON. KILLED BETWEEN 4TH & 10TH OCTOBER 1916. ON HYMERS COLLEGE MEMORIAL.

BORN KRONSTADT, CAPE COLONY. ORIGINAL HULL PAL. RESIDENT IN HULL. PROBATE ADDRESS. Hull Pals Memorial Post. SGT RICHARD MILLER 10/493. Born in Kronstadt, Cape Colony, but resident in Hull when war broke out, Richard enlisted on 2nd September 1914 as part of the fledgling 10th Battalion. He fought in first Egypt and then the Somme and Opp […]

BORN HORNSEA 1894. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM & ANNIE RENDELL AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. A FORMER GROOM. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS SERGEANT, IN THE 16TH LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS. DIED AT RAMSHILL HOSPITAL, ON 22/10/1918, AGED 22. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ANNIE. HE ALSO LEFT BROTHER LEN & SISTERS. HE IS BURIED AT HORNSEA CEMETERY

Born Hull 1897. Son of Walter Richmond and Eva Wells, of Eastbourne Road, Hornsea, Yorkshire; husband of Florence May Jones (formerly Richmond), of 34, Henry Street, Scunthorpe, Lincs. One of six children. Son of a Butcher's merchant. Educated at Hull Grammar School. He enlisted at Hornsea, as Private, 790, East Yorkshire Regiment. […]

BORN HORNSEA 1894. SON OF EDWIN & ESTER SUTHERBY, MERESIDE, HORNSEA. ENLISTED IN 1915

Sergeant Herbert William Thom, 4905, (1888 - 1916), 1st /4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment Herbert William Thom was born in Hull in 1888, the son of William Edmund Thom (1855-1934) and Fanny Thom  Dorsey (1860-1949), who lived in New Road, Hornsea. William Edmund was a self-employed carver and gilder and Fanny was a school mistres […]

BORN HEDON 1891. SON OF FRED & HELEN WADE. HE MARRIED IN JULY 1914. HIS WIFE AMY LIVED IN HORNSEA AND 19 LANDSDOWNE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). PRIOR TO WAR HE WAS A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY JOINER IN HULL. HE WAS A WELL KNOWN AMATEUR FOOTBALLER AND CRICKETER. HE HAD SERVED IN THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE CYCLISTS FOR FOUR YEARS AS A […]

BORN HANDSWORTH, BRIMINGHAM, 1892. WIFE DORIS MARIA WALKER ABOVE. NB; A WALKER (RFA) LISTED ON NICHOLSON/EXCHANGE/TUNIS ST MEMORIAL.

Private Thomas William Wiles 28858 (1878-1918) 6th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment Thomas was born Nafferton in 1876, the son of William Wiles and Sarah Ann Wiles nee Hocknell, who lived in Village Street, Bewholme. He was one of six children, George born in 1871, Mary in 1872, Fred in 1874, Catherine in 1878 and Walter in 1880. Th […]