BORN SOUTHCOATES, HULL 1894. SON OF THOMAS & ALICE BELL OF, 3 , MADELEY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 4, JACKSON STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BLACKSMITH STRIKER. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS GUNNER, 165855, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, 142ND SIEGE BATTERY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/05/1917. AGED 23. BURIED AT LIEVIN COMM […]
Trimmer
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF JAMES BARBER & ELIZABETH JANE BARBER. 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS. On 21/02/1915 the Hull steam trawler KESTREL (H318) sank following a collision with the s.s. HYDRA 75 miles ENE from the Spurn Lightvessel, in the North Sea. CREW LOST ON KESTREL (H318), collision in North Sea with, s. s. HYDRA. 21st February, 1915. AB […]
BORN HULL 1889. GERMAN SUBJECT. SON OF CHARLES & ALICE AUGUSTA KAISER, 11 MADELEY STREET. SHIP SUNK BY SUBMARINE, ON 31/10/1917. DROWNED. AGED 28. NOTE. PERCY KAISER, RN, 62 JACKSON STREET AND PTE, FREDERICK KAISER, SERVED WITH THE 4TH EYR. The British steamship Cambric SS was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-35 when 14 miles […]
Able Seaman
BORN NORWAY 1863. SON OF THE LATE JACOB & HANNAH LIE. WIFE OLIVE CECILIA LIE ABOVE ADDRESS. Chicago was a 7,709grt, defensively-armed steamship. Built for Ellerman´s Wilson Line Ltd, Hull; Yard No 616; Launch Date 24/02/1917; 1 x 4.7ins QF stern gun; Carring Fuel oil in double bottom. Whilst on passage from North Shields to Gibraltar […]
1st Engineer
16 JOSHUA AVENUE, MADELEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
27/05/1915
Aged
32
BORN HULL 1883. SON OF JOHN MORTIMER (1847-1903) AND LOUISA BARBER (1855-1938), FIRST ENGINEER, LOST ON THE TRAWLER "SOUTHWARD HO". HIS WIFE JANE ELLEN AND THREE CHILDREN LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS WHICH GIVE HIS INITIALS AS E. W. MORTIMER. On 27/05/1915 the Hull steam trawler SOUTHWARD HO (H456) was lost with all hands due to enemy acti […]
BORN HULL 1879. SON OF FRED & ANNIE - 134 CHILTERN ST. WIFE ANNIE ELIZABETH SEWARD OF 46 MADELEY STREET, HULL AND 112 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. (HDM ADDRESS 25/10/1916). BEFORE ENLISTING HE WORKED AS A BOLIER MAKER FOR THE HUMBER SHIPWRIGHT COMPANY.NHE WAS A SKILLFUL PIANIST AND WAS WELL KNOWN IN THE HULL PUBS AND CLUBS. HE HAD BEEN O […]
15 JOSHUA AVENUE, MADELEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
02/07/1918
Aged
20
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ALFRED ALEXANDER TOMMINS SWALES 13/1347. Born on 7th October 1897, Alfred was the only son of Alfred and Emma Tommins of 9 Joshua Avenue, Madeley Street, Hull. For some reason he was named for both his father's surname and his mother's maiden name and it was the latter he adopted becoming 'Alfred Swales'. […]
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF CHARLES TUTON (1854-1937) & CLARA ANNIE SOULSBY (1860-1946), OF 51 , MADELEY STREET, HULL (1918 ABSENT VOTERS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HIS BROTHERS, WALTER, FRED & HARRY LIVED AT SAME ADDRESS. HE WORKED AS A COAL PORTER. ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 12TH DECEMEBER 1915. CALLED UP FOR SERVICE, ON 1 […]
