Area: Preston, East Riding

BORN PRESTON 1877. SON OF BENJAMIN AND JANE BISHOP, OF ST OLAVE, YORK. HE RESIDED IN HULL. MARRIED AT BEVERLEY, ON 02/10/1898. HIS WIFE FLORENCE SMELT (1881-1939) & THREE CHILDREN, LIVED AT THE COTTAGE, OAKTREE HOUSE, PRESTON ( ARMY ADDRESS). HE WAS DOMESTIC COACHMAN, GROOM AND GARDENER. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY, ON 24/06/1916, AGED 3 […]

BORN PRESTON, HULL 1897. YOUNGEST SON OF HENRY AND SARAH ELIZABETH BROCKLEBANK, OF "ACEY FARM " AND "WEST END" FARM, PRESTON, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS, ON 28/09/1917, AGED 20. HE HAD REMARKED TO THE NURSE THAT HE HAD A "BLIGHTY" WOUND AND WOULD BE COMING HOME. UNFORTU […]

BORN PRESTON, HULL 1880. SON OF GEORGE AND MARY ANN CLARKSON, KIRKHOLME COTTAGE, PRESTON, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE SERVED IN THE NAVY AND WAS BOARDED IN BROUGH (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IAT BEVERLEY. SERVED IN THE 5TH & 6TH BATTALION OF NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT THE SOMME, ON 16/09/1916, AGED 36. HE LEFT £306 IN […]

BORN HUNTON, YORKS. ENLISTED HULL. LIVED PRESTON, HULL. EX RGA, 2ND HULL HEAVY BATTERY. TRANSFERRED AS GUNNER, 177, ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 17/11/1916. his death was reported in the hull daily mail, on 02/12/1916. * HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ALL SAINTS CHURCH MEMORIAL, PRESTON. BURIED AT DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ

BORN LACEBY, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1885. SON OF CHARLES AND ELIZABETH DRURY, OF GRIMSBY. HUSBAND TO DEBORAH SHIPLEY (FORMERLY DRURY), OF PRESTON, HULL. WORKED AS A COUNTY COURT BALLIFF. HE LIVED IN PRESTON. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND BATTALION, SCOTS GUARDS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS AT 19TH CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, ON 25/09/1918, AGED 33. […]

Born at Benares, India. Wife Hilda Fentiman (nee Jolly), of Pickering Cottage, Lostock Hall, Preston, Lancs. Son of the late Albert and Mary Fentiman. SS Zara, built by Wm. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow in 1897 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 1.331 tons. On April 13th, […]

BORN PRESTON 1888. A FARM LABOURER. LIVED HULL. ENLISTED PRESTON. SERVED WITH THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS. DIED OF INFLUENZA IN SALONIKA, MACEDONIA, ON 20/10/1918, AGED 30. HIS WIFE JESSIE HILL LIVED WITH THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS, AT 22 EMMANUEL STREET, PRESTON, HULL.(WAR PENSION ADDRESS)

LISTED ON ALL SAINTS CHURCH MEMORIAL, PRESTON.

BORN HULL 17/02/1895. SON OF THOMAS MORRIS LITTLE (1868-1936)  & FANNY BURSELL (1868-1954), LITTLE PRESTON, HULL. SON OF A PAINTER. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A BUTCHER (1911 CENSUS), BEFORE HE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 04/12/1911. SERVED AS ABLE SEAMAN, ON HMS "ARDENT". DIED AT JUTLAND, ON 01/06/1916, AGED 21. HIS NAME IS […]

BORN PATRINGTON 1889. RAISED BY HIS GRANDPARENTS, TOM AND ANN BILLANEY, OF PATRINGTON. HE MARRIED MARTHA BARR (1892-1965) AT PATRINGTON, IN 1910. THEY HAD 3 DAUGHTERS AND LIVED AT HOLDERNESS HALL, PRESTON, HULL EMPLOYED AS A WAGGONER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, GUNNER, 1ST HULL HEAVY BATTERY. TRANSFERRED TO THE 11TH HULL HEAVY BATTER […]

SERVED AS "WARD", REAL NAME WAS "WRIGHT". BORN HULL. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. DIED ON 30/09/1915. HIS WAR PENSION, WAS LEFT TO HIS MOTHER MRS SELINA WRIGHT, GUARDIAN OF HIS MOTHERLESS CHILD, LIVING AT 25 BRADSHAW STREET, LEYLAND, PRESTON, LANCASHIRE (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS)

BORN HALSHAM, YORKSHIRE, 1884. HE LIVED IN PRESTON, AND HULL. ELDEST SON OF THEOPHILIUS ALBERT WHATLING (1856-1921) AND WILFREDA STATTERS (1865-1903). SON OF A FARM FOREMAN, FROM SUFFOLK. HE HAD FOUR YOUNGER BROTHERS. HE WORKED AS A FARM HORSEMAN AND AS SHUNTER FOR THE LOCAL RAILWAY COMPANY. HE MARRIED SARAH ANN CRUISE (1875-1951) AT BAY […]

BORN WOODHOUSE, COTTINGHAM 1880. SON OF FRANCIS & JANE WINTER. A SINGLE MAN. HE LIVED WITH HIS BROTHER ALFRED, IN PRESTON, HOLDERNESS. EMPLOYED AS A DOMESTIC SERVANT (1911 CENSUS) AND AT THE ASSYLUM FARM, WILLERBY. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL HEAVY BATTERY. DIED OF FEVER, IN EAST AFRICA, ON 22/08/1917, AGED 32 HIS NAME IS LISTED ON A […]