Private
BORN WEST HAM, LONDON 1896. ONLY SON OF FREDERICK & MARGARET ISABEL ASHTON, FROM 36 CECIL ROAD, PLAISTOW (1911 CENSUS) AND THIS CWGC HULL ADDRESS. AN OFFICE BOY. HE ENLISTED AT UPTON PARK, WEST HAM. SERVED IN THE 6TH ESSEX REGIMENT. DIED IN NORWICH, ON 28/03/1915, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, FREDERICK. HE LEFT TOW […]
BORN HULL 1882. SON OF WILLIAM BRUCE (1848-1915) & MARY FRANCIS ALICE COWAN (1851-1911). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A JOURNALIST AND NEWS REPORTER, SPENDING SOME TIME IN WHITBY. HE MARRIED FLORENCE HODGSON, ON 19/12/1914. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AND SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, IN THE 6TH KINGS OWN LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN […]
Private
BORN HULL 1885. SON OF JOSEPH ATKINSON DIXON (1859-1928) & DINAH DIXON (1862-1918), OF 235, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL AND 133, PARK GROVE, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, MRS STEPHENSON AT 57 RARK ROAD, HULL. HE WAS EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. UNMARRIED. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 124 LBS WEIGHT, […]
BORN ARGENTINA 01/09/1896. ENLISTED GRIMSBY. WIFE LIVED AT PARK GROVE, HULL & WANDSWORTH, SURREY. SON OF HARRY ERNEST & EFFIE JAN HOPSON, BUENOS AYRES, SOUTH AMERICA. HE IS BURIED AT GORDON DUMP CEMETERY, OVILLERS-LA BOISSELLE, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS,"BORN AT EL PUERTO BAHIA BLANCA ARGENTINE REPUBLIC 1ST SEPT. 1896"
BORN HULL 1885. SON OF LOUISA & GEORGE LILBURN, HULL. CPL. ARTHUR LILBURN, TANK CORPS SERVED AT SAME ADDRESS. 1918 ABSENT VOTERS. DRAPER.
2nd Lieutenant
BORN HULL 1898. ONLY SON OF JOHN WILLIAM MILNE (1862-1939) & ELSIE ELIZABETH WORKMAN (1867=1962), OF 81, DUESBERY STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS) & 67, PARK GROVE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN HULL, HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN RENFEW, SCOTLAND. HE HAD TWO SISTERS, ELSIE AND DORA. HIS FATHER WAS A CLERK AT T […]
Surgeon
BORN DUMFRIES, 05/04/1873. SON OF JOHN & MARGARET MOODY 119 PARK AVENUE, HULL. (HDM ADDRESS, 03/01/1916) FULL NAME DOUGLAS WHIMSTER KEILLER MOODY. STUDIED MEDICINE AT MONTROSE ACADEMY & ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY. HELD DIPLOMAS FROM LONDON, DUBLIN AND BERLIN UNIVERSITIES. HAD CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE IN THE TROPICS AND WROTE A THESIS ON […]
BORN HULL 1888. SON OF CHARLES THOMAS & HANNAH OLDROYD, OF 91 PARK GROVE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A SCHOOL MASTER. HE WAS A SCHOOLMASTER ASSISTANT LIKE HIS SIBLINGS, CHARLES AND EDITH. HE EMIGRATED TO CANADA. HE WAS A LAW STUDENT. ENLISTED CALGARY, ALBERTA. HE SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, IN THE 7TH CANADIAN MACHINE GUN CORPS, 3RD […]
BORN HULL 1893. YOUNGEST SON OF CAPTAIN, WILLIAM HENRY PINCHON & ELIZA BOSTON PINCHON, OF 15, RYDE STREET, HULL, 60, PARK GROVE, HULL & "LEYS COTTAGE", ATWICK ROAD, HORNSEA. ONE OF FOUR BROTHERS. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HE WORKED FOR B. SMITH'S GROCERS BEFORE ENLISTING IN 1911. DESCIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 34-35 […]
BORN HULL 30/9/1880. WIFE EDITH EMMA SCALES LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HIS MOTHER LIVED TYNEMOUTH STREET, HULL. HE MOVED TO 421 HECT STREET, LONGPOINT, MONTREAL, IN 1906. PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED BY MESSRS. ROSS, IRONMONGERS, HULL. ENLISTED IN THE CANADIAN MOUNTED RIFLES IN DECEMBER 1914. LEFT FOR THE FRONT ON 15TH MAY 1915, AGED 35. HE WAS KILLE […]
