Area: Paisley Street, HU3 6NJ

BORN HULL 20/6/1898. SON OF GEORGE BELL (1847-1906) AND SOPHIA ANN FOSTER (1856-1908). HIS SISTER, GRACE LIVED AT 34 , PAISLEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND WAS HIS NEXT OF KIN. HE WAS LOST AT SEA, AGED 19. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE TRINITY HOUSE SCHOOL, GREAT WAR MEMORIAL, GEORGE STREET, HULL. HMT Robert Smith, built by Alexa […]

BORN HULL 14/01/1885. HULL PAL. SON OF ROBERT & MARTHA (HUNN) BURNS. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. MARRIED SEPTEMBER 1906. WIFE NAOMI AMELIA (HAIRSINE) & FIVE CHILDREN. HE HAD SERVED WITH THE EYR FOR 6 YEARS BEFORE THE WAR. WORKED AS A LABOURER AND RULLEYMAN. ENLISTED BEVERLEY 1/09/1914. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 6 INCHES TALL. 136 LBS, 35 INCH […]

Born Hull 1889. Husband of Florence Primrose Cooper, of 74, Paisley St., Newington, Hull, and 58, West Street, Hull (War Pension address) Served as a Fitter in the Royal Field Artillery, 2nd Northumbrian Brigade. Died at Home, on 22nd March 1915, aged 26. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery. Alternative Commemoration - buried in Hull (Holy Tr […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF ERNEST DOUGHERTY (1862-1940) & MARY MORAN (1859-1907) OF 90 DE LA POLE AVENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 49 PAISLEY STREET, HULL. (HDM 12/12/1918). ELDEST OF FIVE CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A GARDNER IN A PUBLIC PARK. HE SERVED WITH THE 6TH LANCASHIRE FUSILERS. DIED ON 04/12/1918, AGED 27. HE IS BURIED AT CHARLEROI CO […]

BORN HESSLE 1882. SON OF GEORGE FEATHERSTONE (1839-1916) AND MARGARET FEATHERSTONE, OF 2, MAPLE VILLAS, STIRLING LANE, HESSLE. (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A CHALK QUARRY LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 07/09/1914, AGED 32 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 7.5 INCHES TALL, 143 LBS WEIGHT, 38 INCH CHEST, BLUE EYES, LIGHT BROWN HA […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF THE LATE FREDERICK & MARTHA HARRISON, OF 8, PAISLEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF FOUR SONS. SON OF A RAILWAY TIME KEEPER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 52328 ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. TRANSFERRED FROM RAMC, TO THE 1/6TH LIVERPOOL REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 29/04/1918, AGED 19. HIS ARM […]

BORN NORTHALLERTON, 1874. SON OF HARRIET RHODA & JOSEPH MARSDEN, 56 PAISLEY STREET. A FISHERMAN AND DECK HAND. UNMARRIED AND LIVED WITH HIS WIDOWED MOTHER AT THIS ADDRESS. LOST AT SEA ON THE STEAM TRAWLER 'HALCYON'. PRESUMED DROWNED, AGED 43. COMMEMORATED ON THE MERCHANT MARINE MEMORIAL, TOWER HILL, LONDON. The steam Trawler, Halcyon […]

BORN LANARK, GLASGOW 17/02/1882. SON OF THOMAS & MARGRATE NEWSOM. MARRIED AT BEVERLEY ON 26/11/1911. WIFE LIZZIE & SON LIVED AT 6 LINDUM VILLAS, PAISLEY STREET, HULL AND 9, WALTHAM TERRACE, MILL LANE BEVERLEY (CWGC ADDRESS). ENLISTED BEVERLEY. JOINED ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY IN 1900 AND SERVED WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. […]

BORN LIVERPOOL 2/1/1878. SON OF ARTHUR RAINEY (1851-1932), AND CAROLINE MANN (1849-1886), OF GARSTON, LIVERPOOL AND 21, TRINITY HOUSE, POSTENGATE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE MARRIED ON 07/09/ 1899, AT WEST DERBY, LIVERPOOL. HIS WIFE CHRISTINA MARY RAINEY LIVED AT 46 PAISLEY STREET, HULL. HE WORKED AS AN IRON MOULDER IN HULL. THEY HA […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE RICHARD ALFRED SMITH 12/1328. Born Hull, in 1896, Richard was the second of five children to William and Ada Smith of 39 Paisley Street, Hull. Both Richard and his elder brother William worked as Blacksmiths. Richard was described as 5 foot, 8 inches tall, 36-39 inch chest, 140 lbs weight. He enlisted at […]

BORN HULL 07/06/1889. SON OF ROBERT WILLIAM WRIDE AND ADA HUNT, OF 11 DENE STREET, NEW BRIDGE ROAD AND 50 PAISLEY STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS, 01/09/1917). SON OF A CARPENTER. BEFORE GOING TO CANADA HE WORKED IN THE PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT AT THE HULL DAILY MAIL AND HULL TIMES. HE HAD ALSO SERVED 7 YEARS IN THE YORKSHIRE REGIMENT TERRITORIAL […]