Area: John Street

BORN HOXTON, LONDON, 17/06/1889. SON OF SAMUEL AND ANNIE DAY. HIS FATHER WAS A LOCAL POLICE INSPECTOR, LIVING AT 8 ADDREBURY CRESCENT, ADDERBURY GROVE, HULL. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY, AS SECOND OFFICER, ON HMS "ABOUKIR". HE WAS LOST AT SEA ON 22/09/1914, AGED 25. HE WAS ONE OF HULL'S FIRST CASUALTIES. HIS NAME IS ON THE TRINITY HOUSE […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF ANNIE AND SAMUEL DAY. LOST AT SEA ON 13/05/1918, AGED 21. 20, JOHN STREET, HULL, WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE LEFT £213 TO FATHER SAMUEL DAY, A POLICE INSPECTOR, AT 8, ADDERBURY CRESCENT, ADDERBURY GROVE, HULL. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ELLERMAN-WILSON LINE WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR. NO CWGC RECORD? HIS DEATH WAS A HUGE BL […]

BORN HULL 1897. ONLY CHILD OF FRANCIS CHARLES HENSON (1873-1946) & MARY ELIZABETH MIDDLEMISS (1872-1949), OF 71, VICTOR STREET, HULL  & 2, JOHN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS MOTHER WAS A MILLINERY SALES WOMAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 21/06/1917, AGED […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF WALTER JESSOP (1873-1954) & ELIZA ANN RAPER (1874-1950), OF 9 GREEN LANE & 7 , JOHN STREET, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS - 13/11/1919). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. WORKED AS A RULLYMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 150 LBS WEIGHT, 38-405 INCH CHEST, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. HE ENLISTE […]

BORN HULL. HIS PARENTS LIVED AT 2 CHURCH TERRACE, ST PAUL STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF DYSENTERY WHILST A PRISONER OF WAR, ON 01/10/1918, AGED 32. BURIED IN GERMANY. HE WAS PICTURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 10/09/1918. * HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, […]

LISTED ON ST MARYS CHURCH, LOWGATE MEMORIAL. LOCAL TEACHER. PARENTS LIVED 4 JOHN STREET, HULL. HIS WIFE ANN MILNER (TROWLE) LIVED ST CHAD, BARROW ON HUMBER. HE ENLISTED IN THE LIVERPOOL REGIMENT. LEFT £27 TO HIS WIFE IN HIS WILL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON THE 16TH JULY 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *