Private
BORN HULL 1892. SON OF ELIZABETH BROCKWELL, OF 50 RUGBY STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL.(CWGC ADDRESS). HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS YOUNG AND HIS MOTHER MARRIED WILLIAM BROCKWELL.HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED AT YPRES, ON 16/02/1916, AGED 24. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MI […]
BORN PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE 1896. SENLISTED PETERHEAD. SON OF BARBARA SAMUEL, HESSLE ROAD. HE IS BURIED AT MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET, SOMME, FRANCE.
BORN HULL 1900. SON OF CHARLES HENRY SARGESON (1855-1932) AND SARAH GRAY (1857-1913), OF 8, RUGBY STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL(ARMY ADDRESS). SON OF A FISHERMAN. HE HAD ONE BROTHERS, CHARLES AND FOUR SISTERS, EDITH, ANNIE, ELIZABETH AND HELLEN, IN DOMESTIC SERVICE. HE WORKED AS A RULLYMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 124 LBS WEIGHT […]
BORN LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK, 1879. SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM & MARY SMITH, OF LOWESTOFT. HUSBAND OF EMILY AT 4 BURNS GROVE, RUGBY STREET, HULL. The British trawler Andromache was on her way back from the fishing grounds of Iceland, when on April 14th 1917, she was stopped west of the Shetlands by the German submarine U-78 (Otto Dröscher). […]
4 BLENHEIM CRESCENT, RUGBY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
26/03/1916
Aged
49
BORN LONDON 1867. WIFE FANNY (MAY) AT THIS NAVY ADDRESS. BOSUN OF THE KHARTOUM. LOST AT SEA, ON 26/03/1916, AGED 49. Khartoum, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull in 1899 and owned at the time of her loss by Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., Hull, was a British fishing vessel of 303 tons. KHARTOUM (H472) was used as a company […]
BORN HULL 1892. SCULCOATES. ONLY SON OF JOHN TUTTLE & AMY VIRGINIA RUSHBROOK. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS, DOROTHY, VIOLET, VERA AND EDNA. THE TUTTLE FAMILY LIVED AT 69 RUGBY STREET (1911 CENUS). HE WORKED AS A LABOURER. MARRIED IN 1913. HIS WIFE WAS FLORENCE GERTRUDE BARNES, WHOSE FAMILY LIVED AT 24 HADDON STREET. THEY HAD A YOUNG SON JACK […]
Private
BORN HUNMANBY, YORKSHIRE, 1886. SON OF THOMAS AND MARY ELIZA WATSON, OF HUNMANBY AND BRIDLINGTON. SON OF A GAS WORKS LABOURER. SECOND OF FOUR SONS. HE BOARDED AT 58 RUGBY STREET, HULL. WORKED AS A RAILWAY PORTER. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/04/1917, AGED 31. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WER […]
Able Seaman
BORN HULL 1862. SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH & SARAH WESTOBY ABOVE. LOST AT SEA. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 03/01/1918. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. SS Polo, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1913 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, […]
BORN SUTTON 1886. WIFE ELIZABETH & DAUGHTERS LIVED ABOVE. HDM 3/1/18 & 31 ESSEX STREET (CWGC). ALSO LISTED ON SUTTON VILLAGE MEMORIAL.
2nd Engineer
BORN 1891. FISHERMAN. LOST ON THE 'TITANIA', ON 11/05/1915, AGED 25. HIS WIDOW LIVED HERE. Titania (H 903) FV was a British registered fishing vessel of 179grt that was sunk by the Hamburg mine laying force on the 18th May 1915 by a torpedo boat. CREW LOST ON TITANIA (H903), enemy action N. W. of the Dogger Bank, 18th May, 1915. BLOOMFIE […]
