Area: Market Weighton

BORN BECCLES, SUFFOLK 1891. SON OF ROSINA ASHLEY. ENLISTED MARKET WEIGHTON, ON 08/09/1914. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. PROMOTED TO CORPORAL, ON 18/05/1915. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 13/07/1915. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL (MM) FOR BRAVERY. PROMOTED TO LANCE SERGEANT, ON 18/02/1916. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 10/07/1916, AGED 25. […]

BORN HULL 1875. SON OF AUSTIN FINN, A STEVEDORE, AND CATHERINE CONLY, FROM DRYPOOL, HULL. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. WILLIAM WAS A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST FROM SANCTON, NEAR MARKET WEIGHTON. HE SERVED WITH THE DUBLIN & MUNSTER FUSILIERS AND LANDED ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE GALLIPOLI LANDINGS, ON 15TH APRIL 1915.  THE REGIMENT LOST  21 OFF […]

BORN MARKET WEIGHTON, 1888. SON OF HUGH & ANN, OF HIGH STREET, MARKET WEIGHTON, HULL. WORKED ON THE MARKET WEIGHTON POSTAL STAFF. COMMEMORATED ON THE MARKET WEIGHTON MEMORIAL. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE HUGH LOFTUS 21921. Born 1888, the youngest of eight children to Hugh and Annie Loftus of Market Weighton, East Yorkshire. Hu […]

DIED OF FLU IN GRAVESEND, KENT ON WAY HIS WAY TO BE DISCHARGED. BODY RETURNED BY TRAIN & BURIED AT HOME. SON OF GEORGE W SILBURN ABOVE. ENLISTED HULL 26/12/14. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS A SHEPHERD.