BORN HULL 1887. SON OF MICHAEL & ANNIE EGAN. ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 20/02/1905. A REGULAR SOLDIER - 1ST NFUS IN (1911 CENSUS). KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/11/1914, AGED 28. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER MARY ANNIE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, ON 19/12/1914. * COMMEMORATED: Ypres (Menin Gate) Me […]
BORN HULL 1885. SCULCOATES, SON OF MARY HAZEL, OF 11, MILL STREET, HULL (1901). BROTHER OF MR GEORGE HAZEL, OF 30, NAVIGATION ROAD, YORK (CWGC ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A DOCKER. HE SERVED IN WAKEFIELD PRISON (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 10642, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 33465, TO THE 2ND YOR […]
Company Sergeant Major
BORN HULL 1894. SON OF JOHN & HENRIETTA KELLEY.HIS SISTER LIVED AT 67 LEE SMITH STREET. HE ENLISTED SEPTEMBER 1914. SAW SERVICE IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. TRANSFERRED TO 618899 LABOUR CORPS. DEMOBILIZED ON 16TH FEBRUARY 1919. DIED IN HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY OF PNEUMONIA ON 23RD FEBRUARY. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 26TH […]
Able Seaman
BORN HULL 1903. SON OF THE LATE JOHN WILLIAM & ANN NOLAN. CROWNED AS A RESULT OF ENEMY ACTION, ON 31/10/1917, AGED 14. HIS BROTHER, PTE EDWARD NOLAN, EYR, WAS ALSO KILLED, ON 04/11/1914, AGED 21. BOTH ARE LISTED ON THE HULL BOYS CLUB MEMORIAL, ROPER STREET. HIS NAME IS ALSO RECORDED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. The Briti […]
Private
BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & ANN NOLAN ABOVE ADDRESS (1901 CENSUS) AND 1 HOPE STREET (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. THIRD OF TEN CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A COLOUR AND PAINT MERCHANTS CLERK. AS A TERRITORIAL SOLDIER, HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO FRANCE EARLY ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. HE WAS KILLED SERVING WITH THE 1ST EAST Y […]
