Area: Rosmead Street

BORN WOOTON, LINCS 1885. ELDEST SON OF RYLATT AND CHARLOTTE BAILEY, OF WOOTON, LINCS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR WOLANS HOUSE FURNISHING STORE, WITHAM. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, IN JUNE 1915. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EYR. DIED OF WOUNDS TO RIGHT LEG & BOTH FEET, RECEIVED IN APRIL 1917. HE LEFT HIS WIFE MRS PHOEBE ELIZABETH BAILEY & THR […]

BORN HULL 1896. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF FRED & ADA M. CAWKWELL. AN EX MEMBER OF LADY JELLICOE'S OWN SEA SCOUTS. HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 3RD MARCH 1917 AFTER HE HAD BEEN WOUNDED IN THE KNEE. (HDM 03/03/1917) * Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRED CAWKWELL 21563. Born March 1896, Fred was the second of s […]

BORN HULL 07/04/1890. SON OF FREDERICK & CHARLOTTE COOKE. HE MARRIED ETHEL BEDFORTH, IN 1912. THEY  LIVED AT 7, FERENS VILLAS, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) & 44, COGAN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE SERVED AS CHIEF ENGINEER, IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, ON HMS VICTORY AND THE TRAWLER "JOHN FENTON". AWARDED THE DI […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JAMES & ALICE CROPPER (1869-1928), OF 61 ROSMEAD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. A MESSENGER AND RAILWAY WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 21520, THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 18/09/1918, AGED 25. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, JAMES CROP […]

BORN BRIGHTON, SUSSEX 1880. LIVED HULL. SON OF WILLIAM COWAN CURRIE & MARGARET MATHILDA DRYSDALE, 179 NEW BRIDGE ROAD, HULL. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER SERVING WITH THE 17TH LANCERS. MARRIED MARIE ALLINE REVELL (1883-1961), ON 27/02/1907, AT COLABA, BOMBAY INDIA. HIS WIFE MARIE LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS IN HULL. HE SERVED AS A SECOND LI […]

BORN THORNE 1884. SON OF WILLIAM DIGLIN (1853-1912) & ELIZABETH ANN DIGLIN (1851-1933), OF 13, HIGH STREET, HULL, (1901 CENSUS), 4, CROFTON AVENUE, EGTON STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS), AND 7, NORTHFIELD VILLAS, ROSMEAD STREET, NEW BRIDGE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A BARGE LIGHTERMAN. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR B […]

BORN HULL 1890. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM FILBY (1864-1957) & PRISCILLA PICKERING (1866-1946), OF 17, ESCOURT STREET, NEWBRIDGE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN, LIVING AT 72 ROSMEAD STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. ERNEST'S FIRST JOB, AGED 16, WAS FOR G. ELVIN & CO, PRINTERS […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ROBERT FISHER 201258. Born 1887, the second of four children to Robert Fisher (1864-1940) and Annie Fisher (1864-1892), of 92 Rosmead Street, Hull. Robert was a Timber Foreman prior to enlistment at Hull City Hall on 4th November 1915. Further details are sketchy, but he served with the 10th Battalion Eas […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF WALTER HUDSON & ANNIE ADELAIDE SANDERSON, 4 ASSINDER GROVE, WYKE ST & ABOVE ADDRESS. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 13/05/1918, AGED 19. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 12/5//19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS WIDOW.

BORN FORT WILLIAM, INVERNESS 1893. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF WILLIAM & J LANGHORNE ABOVE. ORIGINAL HULL PAL. DIED OF WOUNDS. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES WILLIAM LANGHORN 11/737. Born in Fort William, Scotland in 1893 James was the eldest of three children and only son of William and Jane Langhorn of 50 Rosemead Street, Newbridge R […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF ROBERT & DINAH FROM IPSWICH. EX RECKITT'S WORKER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. HAD SEERVED IN FRANCE SINCE 18/09/1915. HE WAS KILLED, WHILE FEEDING HIS HORSE, ON 28/03/1918, AGED 27. HE  LEFT WIFE, MINNIE & TWO CHILDREN, AT 101 ROSMEAD STREET, HULL. HE IS BURIED IN FRANCE. H […]

BORN HULL 1876. SERVED AS SECOND ENGINEER, ON THE STEAM SHIP "UMBA". KILLED AT SEA, ON 30/04/1918, AGED 42. HE LEFT A WIDOW, LILLIE (HYDE) WHO LIVED AT 9 ROSMEAD STREET, HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 13/05/1918. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. The Umba was built as Adelheid Menzell […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF JOHN ROBERT & ELIZABETH REDHEAD, OF 1, SELINAS CRESCENT, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL AND 18, PRINCESS TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY LATER MOVED TO BRIDLINGTON. WALTER ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE SEVEN MONTHS BEFORE HE WAS KILLED […]

BORN LEEDS 1894. HIS PARENTS WERE DECEASED AND HE WAS AN ONLY CHILD. WORKED AS A BARMAN. MARRIED 26/4/1915. HIS WIFE ANNIE MARIA READ & SON WILLIAM (BORN 29/10/1915) LIVED AT THIS ARMY ADDRESS. ENLISTED, 06/11/1914. SERVED EGYPT. WAS IN HOSPITAL AT MALTA WITH SCABIES. ARRIVED FRANCE, 15/08/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11 […]

BORN HULL 1899. YOUNGEST SON OF CHARLES (1864-1938) & MARY STOUT, OF 251, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A MARINE ENGINEER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. A HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 5TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/04/1918, AGED 19. BURIE […]

BORN WILLERBY 1890. ENLISTED HULL. WIDOW ABOVE. HDM CABINET MAKER.

BORN HULL 17/2/1876. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY UPFOLD (1850-1908), A ROYAL MARINE COLOUR SERGEANT & HIS WIFE MARIA DURHAM (B. 1859) , ST PAUL'S STREET, HULL. WILLIAM WAS AN ONLY CHILD AND THE FAMILY MOVED FREQUENTLY AS PART OF HIS FATHER'S ROYAL MARINE DUTIES. THEY WERE LIVING IN GILLINGHAM,KENT (1891), HULL (1891), STANLEY, YORKS (1901) […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF JAMES WHITTLE (1861-1937) & SARAH ANN DRESSER (1863-1927) WHITTLE, OF 54, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS A FORMER SOLDIER AND MAURICE WAS ONE OF FIVE SONS SERVING. (ONE IN THE 4TH EYR, TWO SONS IN THE ROYAL ENGINEER'S, AND THE OTHER LATER DISCHARGED TO WORK IN MUNITIONS). THEY ARE […]