BORN NORWICH, 1888. MARRIED IN HULL 1911. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH LIVED AT 168, BELVOIR STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD TWO SONS, WILLIAM ROLAND AND ARTHUR HERBERT. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF GASTRIC ULCER, ON 18/04/1917, AGED 29. BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
BORN HULL 1885. SCULCOATES. SON OF ROBERT BRIAN MIDFORTH (1852-1924) & MIARAH TINSLEY (1859-1940), OF HULL AND NORWICH. ONE OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN, SEVERAL OF WHICH DIED IN INFANCY. LIKE HIS FATHER, HE WAS AN ORGAN PIPE MAKER. HE MARRIED ALICE MAY KING (1886-1972), AT NORWICH, ON 01/08/1910. HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN, LIVED AT 60 BUR […]
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM RICHES 12/481. Born in Norwich, 1883, William was one of seven children to James and Emma Riches of 32 Ashmanhaugh, Neatishead, Norfolk. A Dock Labourer by trade he enlisted at Hull City Hall on 21st September 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 'The Sportsmen', 3rd Hull Pals. […]
Sailor
24 FOUNDRY BUILDINGS, NORWICH, NORFOLK, EAST ANGLIA, UK
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Died on
12/04/1917
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25
BORN SMALLBURG, NORFOLK 1892. SON OF WILLIAM JAMES & MARY ELIZABETH SLADE ABOVE ADDRESS. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON 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. O […]
