Able Seaman
BORN IRELAND, WESTMEATH, 1888. WIFE CHARLOTTE LIVED IN LIVERPOOL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liverpool. She was on Admiralty charter for carrying meat and provisions to the Fleet, but was returning to Liverpool in ballast after havin […]
Private
BORN HULL 1887. LIVED LIVERPOOL. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. JOINED THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 15/01/1915. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 07/05/1915, AGED 28. COMMEMORATED AT YPRES. THERE WERE NO NEXT OF KIN AND HIS MEDALS WERE UNCOLLECTED.
Fireman
BORN LIVERPOOL 1888. SON OF PATRICK & ELLEN O'BRIEN. HIS WIFE ANASTASIA LIVED IN LIVERPOOL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. HULL CREWMAN. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liverpool. She was on Admiralty charter for carrying meat and provisions to the Fleet, but was returning to Liverpool in ballast after h […]
BORN LIVERPOOL 1893. SON OF BENJAMIN & ELIZABETH (NEE BREW). HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. THAMES SS was a British Steam Coaster of 403 tons built in 1910 by Goole Sb. & Repg. Co., Ltd., Goole for Dale Coasters, Ltd. (Lythgoe, Amundsen & Co.), Hull (Newcastle). She was listed as missing on the 14 […]
Ship's Mate
BORN TOXTETH 1891. SON OF ELIZABETH ROSSER. LIVED SHEERNESS IN 1911. BROTHER ARTHUR DIED ON SAME SHIP. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. HIS BROTHER DIED WITH HIM ON THE SAME SHIP. THAMES SS was a British Steam Coaster of 403 tons built in 1910 by Goole Sb. & Repg. Co., Ltd., Goole for Dale Coasters, Ltd. (L […]
Fireman
BORN WEXFORD 1894. SON OF MARY & NICHOLAS ROSSITER. WIFE ELIZABETH - 20 HOOK STREET, LIVERPOOL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. UNTRACED. SS Oslo, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1906 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 2296 tons. On August 21st, […]
Flight Sergeant
Son of the late William and Ada Rye, of Liverpool. The R38 class (also known as the A class) of rigid airships was designed for Britain's Royal Navy during the final months of the First World War, intended for long-range patrol duties over the North Sea. Four similar airships were originally ordered by the Admiralty, but orders for three […]
Leading Signalman
BORN TOXTETH 1885. LIVED IN LIVERPOOL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. Etonian SS was a 6,515 grt defensively-armed British Merchant Ship of the Leyland Line. Built as "Chicago" 1901 and transferred from Wilson´s & Furness to the Leyland Line. On the 23rd March 1918 when on route from Liverpool for Boston, Mass. she was torpedoed by German […]
BORN LIVERPOOL 1887. SON OF HENRY WILLIAM & MARY SCHLECHTE, OF LIVERPOOL, AS PER CWGC RECORDS.AN OIL MILLER FROM LIVERPOOL (1911 CENSUS). HE POSSIBLE CAME TO HULL TO WORK THE OIL MILLS ALONG THE RIVER HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 201796, IM THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 23/04/1917, […]
BORN HULL 1891. ENLISTED LIVERPOOL. SON OF MICHAEL & CATHERINE SULLIVAN, 101 KNOCLAID ROAD, LIVERPOOL.
BORN LIVERPOOL 1899. SON OF FRANK THURLOE (1870-1918) AND SARAH AVELINE JENSEN (1868-1920), OF 116, YORK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BOTH PARENTS WERE BORN IN HULL. SON OF A PAINT WORKER. ONE OF FOUR SONS. HE HAD ONE SISTER. A RECKITT'S WORKER. HE WAS A SINGLE MAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 30745 EAST RIDING YEOMA […]
BORN HULL 1868. HUSBAND OF JOHANNA WILLIAMS, OF 17 CORNWALLIS STREET, LIVERPOOL. NAVAL RECORDS. SERVED AS A COOK IN THE MERCHAN NAVY. DIED ON 05/03/1918, AGED 61. HE LEFT £143 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW. BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY IN MILITARY GRAVE.
BORN EVERTON, 1867. RESIDED LIVERPOOL. HIS SISTER ANNIE MARSHAM AND HER SON ROBERT MARSHAM, LIVED 15 BRITANNIA AVENUE, WAVERTREE, LIVERPOOL. ENLISTED SEAFORD, LANCASHIRE. SERVED WITH THE 3RD LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL, HULL ON 21/01/1916, AGED 49. BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. GRAVE REF:537. 51847. HE L […]
BORN HULL. LIVED LIVERPOOL. UNTRACED.