Area: Newland Avenue

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF FREDERICK MARTIN (1851-1934)& EMILY ANN MARTIN (1850-1940), OF  172, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL HE WORKED WITH HIS FATHER AS A GARDENER. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 11/02/1917, AGED 25. (near Crete Trench Vermandoviller […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1871. SON OF JESSIE. WIFE JANE ELIZABETH MONSEN (NEE SEDMAN), NEWLAND AVENUE. HE SERVED IN THE SHIP COALING FLEET AT SCAPA FLOW. HIS SHIP BLEW UP AND THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS. LEFT WIDOW AND TWO DAUGHTERS. HIS WIFE RECEIVED A WAR PENSION OF 20 SHILLINGS A WEEK. HIS DAUGHTER THELMA (SYMMONS) DESCRIBED THEIR FAMILY LIFE, IN TH […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF GEORGE & SARAH REED, OF, 4, WOODBINE TERRACE, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAAR PENSION ADDRESS). FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 8TH EYR 'C' COMPANY. ONE OF SIX SONS WHO SERVED. THEY ARE ALL PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 15TH DECEMBER 1915. * JOHN ENLISTED AT THE AGE OF 15 AND DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS, AFTER THE WAR, […]

Arthur was born on 27th May 1888, King Street, Winterton, Lincolnshire, and was the son of Thomas & Martha RHODES. The 1891 census shows that he was living with his parents in King Street, Winterton and by 1901 had moved to Sculcoates, Hull. In 1911 Arthur was living with his mother at 166 Newland Avenue, Hull. Arthur’s service record ha […]

BORN HULL 1894. PERCIVAL BOWMAN PALMER ROBINSON. ONLY SON OF GEORGE ROBINSON (1865-1927) & MARION PALMER (1867-1953). SON OF A COUNCIL SCHOOL MASTER. HE HAD ONE SISTER, GLADYS. HE WAS EDUCATED AT HYMERS COLLEGE, HULL WORKED FOR RECKITT'S AS A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT IN THE BLUE STARCH DIVISION (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE […]

BORN COTTINGHAM o4/04/1875. SON OF RICHARD & HANNAH SEWELL, OF KING STREET, COTTINGHAM. AN OIL MILL MAN. HUSBAND OF,  SELINA ALICE & FIVE CHILDREN, LIVED AT 3, ENDYKE LANE, COTTINGHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE COTTINGHAM WW1 MEMORIAL.

BORN HULL 1873. WIFE MARGARET (MASON) LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. PARENTS ELIZABETH & THE LATE RICHARD SHIELDS. KILLED BY MINE EXPLOSION ON 24/02/1916, AGED 43. LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. At 6.15 a.m. on 26th February 1916, while lying at anchor during a raging gale and heavy snow showers, just north of the Humber, a viole […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF JOSEPH SLATER AND ELIZA HARRIET SLATER. HE WAS MARRIED TO ELSIE (SMITH). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINING AS PRIVATE, 225276, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE TRANSFERRED TO THE 10TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 27/10/1917, AGED 29. HE IS BURIED AT THE MENIN ROAD SOUTH CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS ARMY EF […]

BORN HULL 1888. YOUNGEST SON OF SAMUEL & BETSY SMITH, OF 218 NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL, BLENHEIM STREET, HULL AND 123 SHARP STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. A FORMER LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT ARRAS, ON 12/05/1917, AGED 29. […]

BORN HULL 1890. LIVED HULL. SON OF MARY SMITH, AT 250, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS A FORMER DOCK LABOURER. LIVING AT 4 ARTHUR TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 9044, 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POTED TO FRANCE, ON 19/05/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, AT LOOS, ON 29/09/1915, AGED 25. HIS DEATH […]

BORN BRANTINGHAM, YORKSHIRE, 1880. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM TASKER (1857-1926) & ELLEN HYDE (1863-1933), OF 6 WOODBINE TERRACE, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE WAS A HULL POST OFFICE WORKER AND PAINTER'S LABOURER. ENLISTED HULL, ON 07/12/1915. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7.5 INCHES […]

BORN WITHERNSEA 1895. KNOWN AS "TEDDY". ENLISTED HULL MARCH 1914. BEFORE THE WAR WORKED AS A LABOURER FOR THE HULL OIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY. BOARDED AT THIS ADDRESS WITH HIS UNCLE AND AUNT MR & MRS BUGG. HE ENLISTED IN MARCH 1914. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. LEFT FOR FRANCE WITH COLONEL SHAW. DIED OF WOUNDS AT YPRES […]

BORN GREAT EASTON, LEICESTERSHIRE 1878. SON OF CHARLES & ROSANNA WARD, OF RUTLAND. HUSBAND OF CAROLINE (COX) WARD OF BROOKLANDS LODGE, COTTINGHAM AND 5, PROVIDENCE PLACE, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 22/06/ […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM WILSON & ELLEN ANN TIPPETT (1865-1935), OF 154 SHARP STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 180 NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) SON OF A BRICKLAYER. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A GAS FITTER, FOR THE BRITISH GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE […]

BORN HULL 1899. ENLISTED ABERDEEN. LIVED ABERDEEN. SON OF ELIZA YATES AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 148600, LABOUR CORPS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 7TH ROYAL FUSILIERS. BURIED AT MOEUVRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD, FRANCE.