Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ROBERT KIRBY 13/1482. Born in 1894, Robert was the youngest of seven children to William and Elizabeth Kirby of Pilmoor Lane, Roos, East Yorkshire. His father died when Robert was just two years-old and the family were raised on Elizabeth Kirby's wage as a Charwoman. Times must have been hard. When wa […]
BORN ROOS 1887. LIVED IN ROOS. SON OF GEORGE & ALICE KIRK, ROOS. EX PRIVATE, 22159 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO 2ND MIDDLESEX REGIMENT. DIED 25/031918, AGED 31.
BORN ROOS 1897. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY & HARRIET MEDFORTH, ROOS. SON OF AN ENGINE DRIVER. FOURTH OF FIVE CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 30/12/1915. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 19/09/1917, AGED 20. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER WILLIAM HENRY MEDFORTH. HE IS BUR […]
BORN ROOS, HULL, 03/12/1887. SON OF MORRIS MATCALF (1847-1934) & SABRINA ANN LONGMAN (1850-1901). SON OF A WIDOWED CARRIER. HE HAD EIGHT BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE ASSITED HIS FATHER IN THE BUSINESS (1911 CENSUS) HE MARRIED, MINNIE TOVER (1889-1954), AT ROOS, PATRINGTON, IN OCTOBER 1910. HIS WIFE MINNIE METCALF, LIVED IN ROOS. T […]
Fireman
11 Florence Terrace, Waterloo Street, Hull, United Kingdom
Died on
09/06/1918
Aged
53
Born Halsham, Yorkshire, 1865. Son of Thomas Tindle Smith and Mary Jane Curtis, of 11 Florence Terrace, Waterloo Street, Hull. Lost at sea, on 09/06/1918, on the Steam ship "Tewfikieh". His younger brother, Alexander Gardiner Smith served on HMS Queen Mary, and lost at Jutland, on 31/05/1916, aged 43. SS Tewfikieh, built by R. Napier &a […]