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BORN BEVERLEY 1881. SON OF RICHARD BOLTON & FANNY GREENSHAW, OF HULL. HE LIVED IN SCARBOROUGH. WORKED AS A GROCERS ASSISTANT. MARRIED IN LEVEN, HULL, ON 26/12/1907. HUSBAND TO SARAH JANE (GRANTHAM). THEY LIVED WITH THEIR TWO SONS AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, SERVED AS SERGEANT, 79312, 2ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED I […]

BORN HULL 1884. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY CODD. WIFE LAURA ANNIE CODD (FISHER) & SON SIDNEY LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 28/05/1917 & 21/05/1918. KNOWN AS 'JACK'. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON Jupiter SS was a British Merchant Cargo steamer of 2,124grt built for Hessler Shipping […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF AARON FRANKS & ALEXANDRA BAILEY, OF 5, PARK AVENUE, PERTH STREET, HULL. NEPHEW OF J & E HOYES, OF PARK AVENUE, PERRY STREET (HULL DAILY MAIL, 27/04/1917). EMPLOYED AS A CLERK. HE LIVED IN MANCHESTER AT TIME OF ENLISTMENT. SERVED WITH THE HULL PALS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN […]

BORN LITTLE KELK, DRIFFIELD, 1880. SON OF ROBERT GOODILL (1856-1922) AND CAROLINE PEACE, OF 17, BROUGHAM STREET, ALBERT AVENUE, HULL. HE WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS AS A RAILWAY BRAKES EXAMINER. HE MARRIED AT HULL IN 1910. HIS WIFE VIOLET MIRIAM (GEDNEY) AND THREE CHILDREN, LIVED AT 8, REGENT'S TERRACE, NORWOOD STREET, HULL […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF EDWARD MAWER GREEN (1852-1934) & MARTHA REBECCA GREEN ( 1857-1933), OF 187 ELLA STREET, HULL. SON OF A POSTAL INSPECTOR. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, EDWARD AND CHARLIE AND THREE YOUNGER SISTERS, CISSIE, CLARA AND ANNIE. A FORMER POSTAL CLERK LIKE HIS BROTHER EDWARD. HE MARRIED ELIZA MOSES (1886-1971) AT HARLEY STREET […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF JAMES & ROSE GREEN, AT 28 PERTH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A GARDENER. WORKED AS A CLERK (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN GRIMSBY. SERVED IN THE 10TH (COUNTY OF LONDON) REGIMENT HACKNEY. SERVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/11/1917, AGED 23. COMMEMORATED ON THE JERUSALEM MEMORIAL. UNMARRIE […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1888. SON OF ROBERT HENRY HALDENBY (1846-1903) & ELIZABETH HALDENBY (1854-1935), OF 138, CLUMBER STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A POLICE INSPECTOR IN BEVERLEY. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS AND FIVE BROTHERS. ALBERT WAS A MARRIED MAN, LIVING AT 1 BROOKLYN AVENUE, PERTH STREET. HE HAD FINISHED HIS SEVEN YEARS SOLDIERING AS A REGULA […]

BORN HULL 1896. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE HATFIELD (1870-1948) AND ANNIE ELIZABETH HATFIELD (1872-1947), AT 27 PERTH STREET, CHANTERLANDS AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ELDEST OF FIVE CHILDREN. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A CLERK. HE ENLISTED HULL, ON 16/11/1914, AGED 19 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS. EX HULL PALS (EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT). SERVED […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF SETH & MARY JANE HEAP - 4 COBDEN STREET, ALBERT AVENUE & ABOVE ADDRESS. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 23/03/1915, AGED 17. SHOT IN THE HEAD. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 23/03/1915, AGED JUST 17. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 17/04/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. HIS ADDRESS WAS GIVEN AS 4 CYNTHIA GROVE, D […]

BORN DUBLIN 1889. SON OF JOHN GEORGE & CATHERINE HEBBRON, OF 220 PERTH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN DUBLIN. A REGULAR ARMY SOLDIER, WHEN WAR BEGAN. SERVED AS A MUSICIAN IN THE 'C' COMPANY, 1ST NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. HE LEFT FOR FRANCE, ON 10/08/1914 WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. WAS KIL […]

BORN HULL 1891.HIS WIFE NELLIE MOVED TO 21 ARTHUR STREET, WITHERNSEA. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM & CLARA McKEE. GEORGE WAS A FORMER BUS CONDUCTOR ON THE ANLABY ROAD ROUTE. HE HAD NOT BEEN MARRIED LONG. HIS BROTHER EDWARD McKEE WHO SERVED IN THE SAME REGIMENT AND BURIED HIS BROTHER, RECORDED THAT GEORGE WAS KILLED AT HIS POST, BY AN ENEM […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF JOSEPH MOXON & ANN ELIZABETH (HOMER) - 20 CHURCH STREET, DRYPOOL. WIFE GERTIE (NODEN) AT THIS ADDRESS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A MOULDER FOR MESSRS BOYD'S, HOLDERNESS ROAD. HE WAS A KEEN FOOTBALLER, CRICKETER AND SCOUT MASTER. HIS FATHER WAS WELL KNOWN WITH THE KEEL INDUSTRY AND THE FAMILY WERE ACTIVE MEM […]

BORN STAINES, MIDDLESEX 1876. SON OF GEORGE THOMAS ROSEWELL (1839-1909) AND SARAH EMILY HOWLEY (1838-1916). HE WAS A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER WITH THE 3RD EYR (1911 CENSUS). MARRIED ON 16/06/1904, AT MIDDLESEX. HUSBAND OF EMMA WRIGHT, AT 188, PERTH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, EDITH MAY, BORN ON 27/01/1907. EN […]

BORN HULL. SON OF MRS JANE SIMPSON, OF 47 BLACKFRIARGATE, HULL. HIS MOTHER WAS A WELL KNOWN FIGURE, SELLING NEWSPAPERS AT THE CORNER OF SCALE LANE HULL FOR OVER 30 YEARS. A WIDOW, SHE HAD NINE CHILDREN ALL OF WHICH DIED IN INFANCY, APART FROM GEORGE AND ANOTHER SON. GEORGE SIMPSON WAS A FORMER HULL TRAMWAY DRIVER ON THE SPRING BANK ROUT […]

BORN SOUTH DALTON, BEVERLEY,1887. SON OF JOSEPH HELM SMITH AND ANNIE SMITH, OF 163 BLENHEIM STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A TIMBER MERCHANTS CLERK FOR BURGESS MACKERETH, ST PAUL STREET. HE LIVED 91 PERTH STREET, HULL, WITH BROTHER ROBERT & HIS WIFE EDITH SMITH. HE ENLISTED HULL IN 1908. SERVED AS A […]

BORN HULL 11/01/1897. SON OF JAMES & BECKY SMITH, OF 32 JAMES STREET, HULL. LEFT FIANCEE, CISSIE, OF 121, PERTH STREET, HULL. DEATH REPORTED IN THE HDM, ON 04/03/1918. The British cargo ship Harrogate SS foundered 50 miles off the coast of Norway on February 20th, 1918. She was on a voyage from Hull to Bergen carrying a cargo of cok […]

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF WALTER & CLARA STANING, OF 455 ANLABY ROAD, HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HIS SISTER MURIEL DIED ON 13/03/1908, AGED 23. HE SERVED IN THE 1ST EYR FROM 07/01/1902 - 31/08/1908, REACHING THE RANK OF COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR. HE THEN ENLISTED IN THE 5TH EYR TERRITORIALS FOR 1 YEAR, BEFORE GOING TO CANADA […]

BORN HEBDEN BRIDGE, YORKS 01/11/1898. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM & GRACE DEWHIRST SUTCLIFFE. (1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS). ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 47024, 1/4TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION ON 14/04/1918, AGED 19. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL METHODIST CHURCH ROH, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL.

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF THE LATE THOMAS VOAKES (1847-1911) & ANN VOAKES (1848-1903), OF 38, MARMADUKE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HE WAS A RADIATOR WORKER, WORKING FOR HULL'S IDEAL STANDARD. HE LIVED WITH HIS BROTHERS AT 32 PERTH STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. HE MARRIED MINNIE CARRINGTON, AT HULL, IN 1912. THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS AND […]

BORN HULL 1861. WIFE SUSANNAH (GORDON) LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. SS Huntsmoor, built by Flensburger Schiffbau Ges., Flensburg in 1901 and operated at the time of her loss by The Shipping Controller (Jenkins Bros.), London, was a British steamer of 4957 tons. On February 20th, 1918, Huntsmoor, on a voyage from Havre to Southampton, was sunk […]