Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 1897. HIS REAL NAME WAS ALBERT LISTER. HE SERVED AS JOHN WILLIAM AKRILL. SON OF ROBERT WILLIAM LISTER & HARRIET CHRISTMAS, OF 14, ALEXANDER TERRACE, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL (CWGC & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ENLISTED LONDON. SERVED IN 'D' COMPANY, 1ST SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS.. DIED IN THE PERSIAN GULF, ON 30/06/1916. COMMEMORA […]
BORN SUTTON ON HULL 1879. ONLY SON OF JOHN ALEXANDER ALLAN AND FANNY GALLOWAY (1859-1936). HE ENLISTED IN THE DRAGOONS IN 1897. MARRIED WAKEFIELD 15/01/1906. WIFE HARRIET JANE PAYNE. TWO CHILDREN. WORKED AS A DOMESTIC COACHMAN AT LAMBWATH COTTAGE, SUTTON, (1911 CENSUS). 74 WESTBOURNE STREET, HULL WAS HIS 1915 ELECTORAL ADDRESS. SERVED AS […]
BORN BRISBANE 1890. LIVED HULL. SERVED AS ANDREWS. REAL NAME - ANDREW WILLIAM JAMES REID. LISTED ON THE HULL GARDENER MEMORIAL, AT HULL MINSTER. SON OF ANNIE & ANDREW IN NEW ZEALAND. BURIED AT BERTRANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN WILLIAM ANDREWS 14/211. Real name, Andrew William James […]
BORN BIRMINGHAM 1881. FULL NAME ALBERT HENRY ASHFORTH. SON OF JAMES ASHFORTH (1849-1907) AND ESTHER WRIGHT. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE MARRIED CHARLOTTE WEST, AT BRIMINGHAM IN 1907. THEY HAD ONE SON, ERNEST (BORN 29/02/1908). THE 1911 CENSUS SHOWS THAT HE LIVED WITH SISTER, AT 441 NEW JOHN STREET, WINSOR GREEN, BIRMINGHA […]
Corporal
BORN BOLTON. LIVED IN HULL. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE AND THEN CORPORAL 13/310, 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL PALS). SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE KILLED IN ACTION AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916. HE WAS AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL ON 20/10/1916 FOR UNDERTAKING A TRENCH RAID WHILE WOUNDED. HE IS BURIED AT EUSTON ROAD CEME […]
BORN STAFFS 1878. SON OF JOHN AND SARAH ANN ATTWOOD, AT 9, PRINGLE STREET, FRINDON COLLIERY, COUNTY DURHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A RAILWAY PORTER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY PRIVATE, 15607, IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS CORPORAL, 38630, IN THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. SERVED IN THE BALKANS, FROM 08/07/1915. KILLED […]
BORN CYPRUS. HUSBAND OF TERESA WILSON (BORN 30/10/1867) AT 95, OSBORNE STREET, HULL AND 17, PORTER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS STEP FATHER OF HER SON. JAMES STUART WILSON, (BORN ON 10/05/1904). HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 26339, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 12TH SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT. […]
43 CLIFTON TERRACE, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
27/04/1916
Aged
43
HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON HULL'S ST THOMAS CHURCH MEMORIAL, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN WW2. HE IS LISTED AS A MERCHANT SEAMAN AND HIS SURNAME IS SPELT 'ASCOUTH'. NO TRACE FOUND ON CWGC OR ELECTORAL RECORDS. PROBABLY, JOHN WILLIAM AYSCOUGH. BORN SALTFLEETBY, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1873. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM AND SARAH AYSCOUGH. HE SERVE […]
BORN LLANANBEBLIG, CANARVON, WALES, 1881. ONLY SON OF JOSEPH AND MARGARET BANHAM. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. A FORMER SOLDIER FOR 6 YEARS. TIME EXPIRED AND DISCHARGED ON 13/04/1906. HUSBAND OF ANNIE. THEY HAD THREE DAUGHTERS, MAGGIE, ANNIE AND EMILY. HE ENLISTED ON 08/09/1914. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 19054, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. PROMOTED CORPO […]
11 GRANVILLE TERRACE, CHURCHILL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
21/11/1914
Aged
23
BORN YORK 1892. SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM GEORGE BARCLAY (1837-1902) AND ELIZABETH SARAH BARCLAY (1848-1917), LIVING IN HULL AND YORK. HIS MOTHER IS BURIED IN HULL. HE SERVED AS A PRIVATE AND MUSICIAN AND THEN AS LANCE CORPORAL, 8183, IN THE 2ND WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WHICH WAS HIS FATHER'S BATTALION. HE CAME FROM A MILITARY FAMILY. S […]
11 GRANVILLE TERRACE, CHURCHILL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
19/12/1914
Aged
24
BORN YORK 1890. ENLISTED YORK, SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM GEORGE BARCLAY (1837-1902) AND ELIZABETH SARAH BARCLAY (1848-1917), LIVING IN HULL. HIS MOTHER IS BURIED IN HULL. HE SERVED AS PRIVATE, 7117, 2ND WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WITH HIS BROTHER. HE CAME FROM A MILITARY FAMILY. HIS FATHER SERVED 37 YEARS WITH THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. S […]
BORN PLYMOUTH, ON 03/02/1891. REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 17/07/1919, AS ENLISTED IN HULL AND KILLED. ELDEST SON OF FREDERICK AND MARY ANN BARTON, OF 34, WAKE STREET, PLYMOUTH. HIS FATHER WAS A RETIRED ROYAL NAVAL PENSIONER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A PANTER AND DECORATOR. HE MARRIED GLADYS GOULD (BORN 1 […]
BORN HULL 05/03/1876. STEPSON OF THOMAS AND ELIZA ELEANOR WARDELL, OF CLEVELAND TERRACE, SUTTON-ON-HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A RAILWAY CLERK. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EYR. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/09/1916. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ELIZABETH ELEANOR WADWELL, OF 117 ABBEY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) […]
3, ROSE TERRACE, ALFRED STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
10/04/1918
Aged
36
BORN HULL, 1879. SON OF HENRY AND MARY BAXTER., OF 31, EXMOUTH STREET, HULL (BROTHER ARMY ADDRESS) HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED DURING THE SOMME OFFENSIVE, IN 1916. INVALIDIED TO CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL. HE WAS FEATURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 14/08/1916. […]
Fireman
BORN NEW YORK, USA 1871. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. CALYPSO SS was a 2,876grt British Merchant ship built in 1904 by Earle’s Sb. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Hull and owned by T. Wilson, Sons & Co., Ltd., Hull . There was accommodation for 57-1st, 44-2nd and 863-3rd class passenge […]
BORN YORK 1893. SON OF HEDLEY BOLTON (1861-1953) & MARY ANN BOLTON (1862-1941), OF 43 VICTORIA STREET, NUNNERY LANE, YORK (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. WORKED AS A RULER IN THE PRINTERS SHOP. LIVED IN HULL. (SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS). ENLISTED IN YORK. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTIO […]
BORN WOODHOUSE LEEDS, 16/10/1882. SON OF JOHN EDWARD BOWMAN (1857-19440 AND MATILDA GRAY (1859-1923), OF WOODHOUSE, LEEDS. HE MARRIED DORA HARRIET VICKERMAN, AT LEEDS, ON 01/06/1909, AGED 26. WORKED AS AN INSURANCE CASHIER, LIVING AT 8, NELSON AVENUE, WELLINGTON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE SERVED IN THE 2ND KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT […]
Ordinary Seaman
LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. NO CENSUS MATCH? SS Vasco, built by Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool in 1895 and owned at the time of her loss by T. Wilson, Sons & Co. Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 1.914 tons. 280x40x19.2 feet; 188 n.h.p. triple expansion engine. On November 16th, 1916, Vasco, o […]
Private
BORN HULL 1862. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS A PRIVATE, 201962, IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT PASSCHENDAELE, ON 30/10/1917. COMMEMORATED AT THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW MARY, AT 35 EDGAR STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS WIFE MARY WAS BORN ON 11/11/1867. THEY HAD AN […]
Private
BORN HULL. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS A PRIVATE, IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 25/09/1916. COMMEMORATED AT THIEPVAL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MISS ANNIE SMITH. HE WAS AWARDED THE BRITISH WAR MEDAL & VICTORY MEDAL. MANY POSSIBLE CENSUS MATCHES.
