Chief Engineer
BORN BERMONDSEY 3/4/1874. SON OF GEORGE & ANN ELIZABETH NUGENT. MARRIED MARIA 1901 - WEST HAM. LIVED LEWISHAM 1915. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. 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, bu […]
Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 15/3/1897. SON OF THOMAS ROSEWALE PURNELL (1865-1962) & MARGARET AGNES TURNER (1867-1898), OF 22 RONALD'S ROAD, HIGHBURY, NORTH LONDON. HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS. HE ENLISTED IN LONDON. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, WITH THE 1ST DORSET REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED AT AMIENS, ON 19/04/1916, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LE […]
BORN HULL 21/12/1885. SON OF JOHN & SARAH RIBBETT, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR MESSERS WW NORTH, SAW MILLS, SITWELL STREET, HULL. HE WAS A NAVAL RESERVIST & REJOINED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. HIS WIFE ALICE LIVED 144 ELIZABETH STREET, WOOLWICH. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT GALLIPOLI, ON 04/06/1915. AGED 29. HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS […]
BORN BATTERSEA 1892. SON OF WILLIAM & MARTHA ELLEN SAVILLE, OF BELL COMMON EPPING, ESSEX. (1911 CENSUS SHOWS) A FORMER PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER WITH THE 2ND BERKSHIRE REGIMENT. LISTED ON THE NEEDLERS ROH IN HULL. ADDRESS UNTRACED. ONLY CWGC RECORD.
Able Seaman
BORN GERMANY 1858. LIVED ISLINGTON, LONDON. WIFE EMMA. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. The GITANO was posted missing in January 1919, lost with all hands, presumed mined after passing Flamborough Head on 20/12/1918. The master was engaged chiefly in the general trades to the Baltic and had been running regularly and continuously throu […]
Fireman
BORN LONDON 1879. SON OF JAMES SHUTTLE, BRUCE HOUSE, CAMPBELL STREET. LONDON. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON
BORN HULL 1896. SON OF MR & MRS CHARLES SMITH, OF CLEVELAND STREET, MILE END, LONDON. A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 4128 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 9TH KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTON, ON 16/09/1916, AGED 20. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE […]
Acting Corporal
Born Hull 1880. Enlisted Deptford, SE London. Formerly served as, 36960 RAF. Transferred to the 1st East Yorkshire Regiment. Killed in action, on 24/08/1918, aged 38. Husband of Lizzie Ann Smith, of 6A, Brightside Rd., Hither Green, London.
Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 1884. SON OF ARTHUR FRANCIS SMITH (1853-1909) & MARY ANN ROGERS (1859-1910). HE MARRIED AT WEST HAM ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 1906. HIS WIFE LOUISA EMILY GRANGER (1882-1976) AND FOUR CHILDREN LIVED AT, 54 BERNARD ROAD, CUSTOM HOUSE, LONDON. EMPLOYED AS A COPPERSMITH'S LABOURER (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED AT CANNING TOWN, ESSEX. SERV […]
Chief Officer
Born at Hull 23/08/1884. Son of David Paxton Smith (1855-1924) and Caroline Smith; Married on 24/06/1914. Husband of Annie Priscilla Smith (nee Dunthorn) (1882-1965), of 140, Second Avenue, Manor Park, East Ham, Essex. He left £330 in his will to his widow at this Probate address. HMS Seagull was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1889. She […]
Private
BORN HULL, 14/03/1894. DRYPOOL. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS AND MINNIE SMITH (1870-1936), OF 26 BLYTH STREET, HULL. SON OF A SHIPYARD WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN THE 3RD COLDSTREAM GUARDS, IN JULY 1913. WENT TO FRANCE ON THE 12/08/1914. WAS WOUNDED IN MARCH 1915 AND INVALIDED HOME. POSTED TO THE 5TH RESRVE BATTALION, COLDSTREAM GUARDS. DIED IN KING […]
Rob Carter, writes on 22/4/2016, regarding his great uncle, Pte Harry Spencer (aka Charles Henry Silcock). Born Buckhurst Hill, Essex, 4th July 1871, Harry was one of four children to Deborah Silcock (1846 - 1929), of 69 Studley Road, Forest Gate, Essex. 1) Apprenticeship records show that Harry - Charles H Silcock, aged 15 - was indentu […]
BORN HULL 1890. LIVED KENSINGTON. ENLISTED KENSINGTON.
BORN HULL 1897. LIVED IN TOOTING, LONDON. SON OF MRS ELIZA bull (1873-1955) & JACOB c WALKER (1871-1919), OF 54 CHARLMONT ROAD, TOOTING, LONDON. HIS FATHER LIVED AT 14 ALICIA STREET, HULL IN 1881, BUT MOVED TO LAMBETH AND WORKED AS A PORTER IN COVENT GARDEN. ROBERT HENRY WALKER ENLISTED IN WIMBLEDON. SERVED WITH "C" COMPANY, THE 1ST […]
BORN HULL 1884. LIVED CLAPTON, MIDDLESEX. 1911 CENSUS PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER SERVING WITH THE 3RD COLDSTREAM. HULL CONNECTION UNTRACED
BORN HULL 1880. LIVED 32 TEMPLETON ROAD, TOTTENHAM. EX 21924 MIDDLESEX REGIMENT. EX COACHMAN. DIED EGYPT. ARMY EFFECTS SENT TO LILY NEVILL.
Bombardier
BORN HULL 1883. PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, SON OF AMELIA & THE LATE WILLIAM ALEXANDER WEST. LIVED WOOLWICH, LONDON IN 1901 CENSUS.
BORN HULL 1886. SON OF ROBERT HAYTON WILKINSON (1864-1935) & ELIZABETH MARY WILKINSON (1868-1934), OF 17 SCOTT STREET, HULL AND WEST HAM, EAST LONDON (1901 CENSUS). HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN HULL. HIS MOTHER FROM BARKING, LONDON. SON OF AN ELECTRIC WIREMAN. HE MARRIED NELLIE EDITH ROBINSON (1887-1956) AT WEST HAM IN 1910. LIVED 54 VERN […]
BORN HULL 1889. ENLISTED ST PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX. KIA. SON OF THE LATE THOMAS F WORKMAN & ROSINA ANNIE WORKMAN - 10 PRIORY STREET, & 1 BAYMAN PLACE, CAMDEN. EX CAR MAN.
