5, Cleo Terrace, Westmoreland Street, Hull, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
05/05/1917
Aged
24
John Thomas Ibbetson, of the 12th Battalion, Hull Pals, died of wounds at 30 Casualty Clearing Station, France on the 5th May 1917 and buried at Aubigny-en-Artois. Presumably wounded in the Oppy Wood offensive, he died of gunshot wounds to the back and right arm. He was born Thorne, Yorkshire, 1893 (not Thornton, Lancashire as recorded i […]
Fireman
BORN LONDON 1871. FIREMAN, ON THE HULL STEAM SHIP "TORO". LOST AT SEA, ON 12/04/1917, AGED 46. HE IS COMMEMORATED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. SS Toro, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1904 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 3066 tons. […]
BORN SWINESHEAD, LINCOLNSHIRE 1886. JOINED THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT IN 1904. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 8 INCHES TALL, 127 LBS WEIGHT, 35 INCH CHEST, BLUE EYES, LIGHT BROWN HAIR, TEETH MISSING. CONTINUED IN THE ARMY RESERVE. HE MARRIED IN HULL 14/12/1913. HIS WIFE, MARY ELLINOR SWAINGER, LIVED AT 1, HODGE STREET, DRYPOOL, HULL, 10, BEAUMONT T […]
Able Seaman
BORN LONDON 1891. ABLE SEAM, ON THE S/S "MONTEBELLO". HE DROWNED ON 21/06/1918, AGED 27 AND IS REMEMBERED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. THE 'MONTEBELLO' WAS A WILSON LINE SHIP, TORPEDOED AND SUNK OFF USHANT, ON 21/06/1918, WITH THE LOSS OF 41 LIVES. HULL CENSUS ADDRESS UNTRACED. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMO […]
Able Seaman
BORN STEPNEY, EAST LONDON 1894. SON OF THOMAS & MARY ANN SOWERBY, LONDON. HE DROWNED AGED 24 AND IS REMEMBERED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR, AND TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON THE MONTEBELLO WAS A WILSON LINE SHIP, TORPEDOED AND SUNK OFF USHANT, ON 21/06/1918, WITH THE LOSS OF 41 LIVES. HULL CENSUS ADDRESS UNTRACED.
BORN MIDDLESBROUGH 1879. ENLISTED IN THE 'HULL PALS'. EX 279 11TH EYR. HE MARRIED ZILLAH BAIRSTOW AT HULL IN JULY 1896. PRIOR TO WAR, HE WORKED FOR THE HULL LABOUR EXCHANGE FOR THREE YEARS. BEFORE HIS APPOINTMENT BY THE BOARD OF TRADE, HE ACTED FOR ELEVEN YEARS, AS ASSISTANT SCHOOLMASTER, ON THE TRAINING SHIP 'SOUTHAMPTON', WHICH WAS MOO […]
