Area: HULL

BORN COATBRIDGE, LANARKSHIRE 1894. SON OF CATHERINE & JOHN SYME. ENLISTED IN GLASGOW. EX. 8019, 2ND DRAGOONS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 8TH BLACK WATCH REGIMENT. KILLED ON 14/04/1917, AGED 23. LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 12/05/1917. HULL ADDRESS UNTRACED. HIS PENSION WENT TO CATHERINE SYMES, AT 26 MAR STREET, ALLOA

BORN NORTH BARWICK, EDINBURGH, 1877. SON OF JAMES AND ANNIE TAYLOR, OF CEDAR GROVE, DIRLETON, EAST LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/04/1917, AGED 40. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ANNIE, FATHER, […]

BORN IRELAND, 1859. HUSBAND OF MARIA THOMPSON, OF 241 ALLIANCE AVENUE, HULL (PROBATE ADDRESS). A LOCOMOTIVE INSPECTOR. HE HAD FOUR CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN THE 3RD NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. DIED ON 18/03/1919, AGED 60 (CWGC RECORDS). BURIED IN HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY HIS TWO SONS SERVED IN THE WAR.  

BORN HULL 30/09/1884. SON OF JOHN AND SARA BURGESS. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. SERVING IN INDIA (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED BEVERLEY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 15/01/1915. SERVED WITH THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED IN SALONIKA, ON 17/10/1918, AGED 32. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER, MRS MARTHA A. NOBLE. NO CENSUS OR PENSION LEDGER […]

BORN HULL 1900. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. DIED OF WOUNDS, IN GERMANY, ON 02/06/1918 AGED 18. BURIED AT VENDRESSE BRITISH CEMETERY, AISNE, FRANCE. HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS MOTHER, MRS EMILY WALKER, (AGED 38), OF 19 LORNE STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS)  

JOHN WILKIN WARD WAS A DECK HANDON THE STEAM SHIP "INDUSTRIA". HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 22/05/1918. HE WAS BROTHER TO EDWARD, ARTHUR, HARRY & FLORRIE. HE LEFT A DEPENDENT MOTHER, MARTHA WARD AT 131 WATERSIDE ROAD, BARTON ON HUMBER. (PENSION ADDRESS). THERE ARE NO CWGC RECORDS OF THIS DEATH. THE REST OF THE CR […]

BORN ST. JOHNS TOWN, DUBLIN 1892. SON OF CHARLES & ELIZABETH WARD, OF HULL. ENLISTED AT Clonmel, County Tipperary. A REGULAR ARMY SOLDIER. SERVED IN THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, WITH THE 2ND BATTALION, ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT. WOUNDED ON 22/12/1917.  AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL (MM) FOR BRAVERY. DIED ON 27/09/1918. BURIED AT  BUCQUO […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ALLEN WARD 11/936. Born in Canning Town, Middlesex in 1890, Allen was the son of Ellen Ward. A Labourer by trade, he travelled north after the death of his mother, settling in Hull. When war came he enlisted at City Hall, on 10th September 1914, joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 'The Tra […]

BORN KIRKBY SEXTON, YORKS 1888. SON OF THOMAS WATSON (1851-1926) & ELIZABETH PARKER (1859-1910). HE MARRIED, ON  05/11/1907. HUSBAND OF FLORENCE DANIEL (1898-1960). ENLISTED FERRYHILL, DURHAM. SERVED IN THE 1/7TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS (HULL RAILWAY PALS). LISTED AS HULL CASUALTY. HIS ARMY PENSION WAS LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, FLORENCE […]

BORN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. ENLISTED ENDINBURGH. WIFE MARY. LIVED AT 29 WEST PARADE, SPRING BANK, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS)ACCORDING TO SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS. SERVED AS A LANCE CORPORAL IN THE 9TH ROYAL SCOTS. DIED OF WOUNDS AT NO:41 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, ON 31/03/1918. HIS AMRY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARY. BURIED AT NAM […]

BORN WOODFORD, ESSEX 1889. SON OF CHARLES STANLEY & LILLY WEBB. AN AUCTIONEER'S CLERK. LIVED 22 DRAGON ROAD, HARROGATE (1911 CENSUS). HIS WIFE ANNIE ELIZABETH LANGTHORNE, LIVED AT 72 HARDY STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE HULL PALS, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. SURVIVED THE A […]

BORN GATESHEAD, 1888. SON OF GEORGE WEDDELL & MARGARET JOHNSON WEDDELL, OF DURHAM. WIFE ELIZABETH WEDDELL, OF 2 LEE BUILDINGS, GRANGE VILLA, DURHAM. A RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE FIREMAN. HE ENLISTED AT CHESTER LE STREET, DURHAM. SERVED WITH THE 1.8TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/09/1916, AT THE BATTLE OF ANCRE, FRANCE. HIS […]

BORN READING, 1887. SON OF DAVID WEST (1853-1891) & EMILY BUNCE (183-1927), OF 26 CONNAUGHT ROAD, READING. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER.  A PRINTER MACHINE MINDER IN READING (1911 CENSUS). SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS STATE THAT HE RESIDED IN HULL. HE ENLISTED IN READING. SERVED WITH THE 2ND ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT (1911 CENSUS).  P […]

BORN HUNSLET 1873. SON OF THOMAS & SARAH ANN WEST, HUNSLET, LEEDS, YORKSHIRE. NARRIED, HULL 1910. A FISHERMAN. DROWNED AGED 46. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE LOST TRAWLERMEN OF HULL RECORDS. S/S 'DURBAN', A steam trawler, built for the Humber Steam Fishing & Ice Co., Hull (H378). In December 1914 vessel Rqd by the Royal Navy as an au […]

BORN KENNINGHALL, NORFOLK, 1887. SON OF ROBERT WHILEY (1849-1923) AND ELIZABETH WHILEY, FROM NORWICH. HIS FATHER WAS A COALMAN (1891 CENSUS). ARTHUR MARRIED ELSIE DRURY (1891-1940), AT SHEFFIELD, IN 1908. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN THOMAS AND MARY ELLEN DRURY, OF SHEFFIELD. ARTHUR WAS WORKING AS AN ELECTRICAL LABOURER AND LIVING AT 29 […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF A BUILDING CONTRACTOR. A FORMER STONE MASON. ENLISTED HULL. EX PRIVATE, 4/3552, 5/7131, & 242327, 1/4TH BATTALION. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1/5TH BATTALION NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 27/11/1916, AGED 26. SON OF ERNEST WHITEHEAD & SARAH ANN LEES, OF SADDLEWORTH, YORKS. ARMY EFFECTS LEFT TO MOTHER […]

BORN HULL. ENLISTED HULL. A FORMER GUNNER, 4606, 146TH HULL HEAVY BATTERY. PROMOTED SERGEANT. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 27/05/1917, AGED 24, AT THE 108TH FIELD AMBULANCE HOSPITAL. HE MARRIED EDITH JACKMAN, AT BRIDLINGTON, IN 1916. LEFT HIS ARMY EFFECTS TO HIS WIDOW EDITH BERWICK  (BORN 03/07/1893), WHO REMARRIED AND MOVED TO 5 WEST END COTTAGE […]

BORN DEWSBURY 17/02/1888. SON OF JOSEPH WILMAN (1858-1932) & ELIZA ANN PARKINSON (1859-1889). HIS GRANDMOTHER AND GUARDIAN WAS ISABELLA CARTWRIGHT, OF 76 WATERLOO STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A COAL MAN. SERVED A ONE MONTH PRISON SENTENCE AT HMP WAKEFIELD, FOR BEGGING. LIVED OSSETT WITH UNCLE - 1911 CENSUS. MARRIE […]

Born Hull 1898. Son of Frederick George and Sarah Wright, of Albert Dock, Hull (CWGC Address). Living at 16 Londesborough Street, Hull (1911 census). His father was from Norfolk and worked as a bridge foreman. AS PER "SOLDIER'S DIED IN THE GREAT WAR RECORDS" - HE WAS BORN IN HULL. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE R […]