Area: Kings Bench Street

PTE. H. A. BASS REPORTED AS KILLED IN ACTION ON 09/04/1917. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 15TH MAY 1917.  NO OTHER MILITARY DETAILS TRACED. Henin Cross - Beverley Minster The cross commemorates all ranks of the 64th Infantry Brigade, which included the 1st East Yorkshires, 10th King's Own York […]

BORN SELBY, YORKS 1879. HUSBAND OF FLORENCE GERTRUDE BULMER (1880-1941), OF 12 , KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF THOMAS BULMER (1848-1923) & EMMA WASTLING (1850-1931), OF 4 ENA STREET, BOULEVARD, HULL. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. HE SERVED IN BOER WAR. WAS A TAILOR IN CIVILIAN LIF […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF WALTER DREWERY & CLARA OWEN, OF 29 WALTON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 7 KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS 10/05/1917. THEY MOVED TO 44 MANOR PARK, LEWISHAM, LONDON. HULL ADDRESS ALSO REPORTED IN HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 03/05/1917. A GAS ENGINEER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 4407, EAST YORKSHIRE […]

BORN HULL 1896. SECOND SON OF WILLIAM DYMOCK (1862-1939) & SARAH JANE PARKER (1872-1947) , OF 70 CAMPBELL STREET, 46 KINGS BENCH STREET (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND WELBECK STREET, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE WAS EMPLOYED AT MESSRS. T. CROSS, PLUMBERS, ANALBY ROAD. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILL […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. CORPORAL FRANK FEATHERSTONE 11/826. Born July 1893, Frank was the fifth of six children to William John and Lavinia Featherstone of 61 Kings Bench Street, Hull and 329, Hessle Road, Hull (War Pension address). His mother died when he was very small and his father never remarried. A Compositor by trade, Frank queu […]

BORN SPEETON, BRIDLINGTON, 15/3/1895. SON OF GEORGE & ELLEN FORD, OF 50, KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL, NORTH FERRIBY, YORKSHIRE, AND 2, LABURNUM AVENUE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS THE NORTH FERRIBY STATION MASTER. SERVED AS AN ABLE SEAMAN ON THE 'CAMBRIC'. LOST AT SEA ON 31/10/1917, AGED 22. WILLIAM LEFT B […]

BORN HULL 1893. YOUNGEST SON OF WALTER HILTON (1860-1897) & HENRIETTA BATTY (1862-1919), OF 51, KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER, DOROTHY. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A DRAPER'S APPRENTICE (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 11643, ROYAL FUSILIERS. TRANSFERRED TO […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF JOSEPH JOHN HORSFALL (1867-1936) & AGNES ISABELL OWENS (1866-1947), OF 23 GEE STREET, HULL AND 22 KING'S BENCH STREET, HULL. SON OF A RAILWAY GOODS FOREMAN. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, GEORGE AND HERBERT AND ONE SISTER, AGNES. EDUCATED AT THE BOULEVARD SECONDARY SCHOOL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS AN APPRENTICE CARPENTER […]

BORN SELBY, LINCONSHIRE, 09/03/1883. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM MELLERSHIP & MARY WATSON. SON OF A BRICK BURNER (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1905. HIS WIFE, EDITH BENSON DICKERSON,  LIVED AT 25 KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 3 LEURA GROVE, TYNE STREET, HULL (PROBATE ADDRESS). S […]

BORN PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 1890. SON OF JAMES MILLARD, AND MARIA WILSON, OF 72, HOLLAND STREET, HULL AND 119, NEWBRIDGE ROAD, HULL. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. THOMAS WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER AT HULL'S, BLENKIN STREET BOYS SCHOOL. HE WAS 5 FOOT 7 INCHES TALL, 130 LBS WEIGHT, 34-36 INCH CHEST, WESTLEYAN RELIGION HE MARRIED EDIT […]

BORN HULL 1898. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF WALTER & CLARA OWEN, OF 7 , KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS, 01/05/1917). HE WORKED FOR MESSRS, BORTHWICKS, OF HULL AND LIVED AT 36 REGENT STREET, ANLABY ROAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED AS PRIVATE, 4407, 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGEIMENT, WHEN WAR BEGAN. TRANSFERRED TO THE 5TH SCOTTISH BORDERERS. HE WA […]

BORN HULL 1894. ELDEST SON OF WALTER & CLARA OWEN OF 7 KING'S BENCH STREET, HULL (HDM 01/05/1917). WORKED FOR THE GROCER'S, MESSRS WILLIAM JACKSON & SON LTD, BEFORE ENLISTING IN 1914. HE JOINED THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE CYCLISTS AND WAS ATTACHED TO THE 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1917, AGED 2 […]

BORN HULL 03/08/1886. SON OF JOHN THOMAS PRITCHARD (1859-1918) AND MARY JANE ESTHER ANN COULTAS (1860-1934), OF 1 VICTORIA AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS) AND 60 KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN, SON OF A TINSMITH. EMPLOYED AS A BOTTLING STORE LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, THE 1 […]

BORN HULL 1859. SON OF EDWARD AND ANN SHORT. HE MARRIED CAROLINE PRAGER, AT HULL, ON 06/03/1882. SHIP'S ENGINEER. LOST ON THE 'TYCHO', 20/05/1917, AGED 58. HE LEFT £275 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW AT 13, KINGS BENCH STREET, HUL (PROBATE ADDRESS). SS Tycho, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd., Hull in 1904 and owned at the ti […]

BORN MASBORO, YORKS, 1880. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY, OF GORE HILL, LINCOLN. HUSBAND OF ANNIE MILDRED SMITH, OF 39, PLANE STREET, HULL AND 49, KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL.  A FORMER CHEMISTRY TEACHER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. SERVED WITH THE COLOURS FOR 3 YEARS AND 282 DAYS. DISCHARGED WITH TUBERCULOSIS, ON […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF RICHARD & ANN JANE. SERVED FOR OVER 18 YEARS WITH THE MILITARY FORCES. KILLED IN ACTION. LEFT WIFE MRS ELIZABETH WRIGGLESWORTH ABOVE ADDRESS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 3RD MAY 1918. *