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BORN DRIFFIELD 1890. SON OF DAVID EDWARD BOURNER (1854-1899) & MARY ANN ROBSON (1858-1940), OF 20 CHESTNUT AVENUE, PARK ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS & PARISH MAGAZINE). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. FOUR BROTHERS SERVED IN THE WAR. THREE OF THEM WERE KILLED. GEORGE BOURNER WAS A SINGLE MAN. HE WORKED AS A CRANE DRIVER, F […]
BORN DRIFFIELD 1887. SON OF DAVID EDWARD BOURNER (1854-1899) & MARY ANN ROBSON (1858-1940), OF 20 CHESTNUT AVENUE, PARK ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ALL FIVE SONS SERVED IN ARMY & THREE WERE KILLED. HAROLD BOURNER WAS A BOOT MAKER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7 INCHES TALL, 143 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST. HE MARRIED IN 1912. HUSBAND OF […]
BORN DRIFFIELD 1884. SON OF DAVID EDWARD BOURNER (1854-1899) & MARY ANN ROBSON (1858-1940), OF 20 CHESTNUT AVENUE, PARK ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS & PARISH MAGAZINE). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. FOUR BROTHERS SERVED IN THE WAR, AND THREE DIED WITHIN TWO YEARS. HAROLD & GEORGE BOURNER, WERE ALSO KILLED IN ACTION. […]
BORN ENFIELD, MIDDLESEX 1885. SON OF FREDERICK & ELIZABETH DAVIS. HUSBAND OF ETHEL MARY DAVIS, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED AT PONTEFRACT. EX 39625 KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 41667, 16TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 05/05/1917, AGED 32. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHO […]
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BORN HULL 1888. SON OF ALFRED GOULD & ELIZABETH J. BRADSTREET, OF 1 LAUREL GROVE, PARK ROAD, HULL. LOST AT SEA ON 13/11/1915, AGED 27. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. On November 26th, 1915, the British cargo ship SHIPCOTE, left Archangel for Le Havre with a cargo of grain in bags, and went missing. She was no […]
BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOHN & ANN GREEN, AT 17 BARROW AVENUE, CAVE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN THE 2ND NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS IN HULL. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 16/01/1915. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 19/02/1915, AGED 23. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES, MENIN GATE MEMORIAL […]
BORN HARROGATE 1886. ELDEST SON OF MRS J JACKSON OF 3 ASH GROVE, PARK ROAD, HULL. A BUGLER IN THE 2ND VOLUNTEER EAST RIDING TERRIRORIALS. AN APPRENTICE WHITE SMITH AT MESSRS. YOUNG AND PECK, JAMESON STREET, HULL. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED AT CHEMIN DES DAMES, 27/05/1918, AGED 18. HE HAD ONLY BEEN IN FRANCE FIVE WEEKS. HDM 01/04/1919. *
BORN HOWDEN, 1899. SECOND SON OF CHARLES & ADA KEMP, OF 25 PARK ROAD, HULL. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 20TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, A PIONEER BATTALION. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/09/1918, AGED 19. "MAY HE REST IN PEACE". FROM HIS HEART BROKEN MOTHER AND FATHER, AND BROTHERS, CHARLEY AND HAROLD, (HDM 14/10/1918).
BORN NEWLAND, HULL 1878. ONLY SON OF HENRY PONSONBY TOLCHARD (1846-1908) & LOUISE BROOKES WRIGHT (1845-1901). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE HAD SIX SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A SHIP'S STEWARD. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 15/11/1914, AGED 35 YEARS AND 14 DAYS. JOINED AS PRIVATE, 13/260, 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7 […]
