Area: Rustenburg Street

BORN HULL 1898. ENLISTED AUGUST 1915. SON OF FRED & AMY C BUSH. WORKED AT DE LA POLE CAFE. HIS BROTHER HORACE BUSH SERVED WITH THE NEW ZEALAND FORCES. HENRY WAS REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 11TH AUGUST 1916.

BORN YORK 06/12/1867. SON OF THOMAS FRED COX (1842-1916) & ELEANOR ROBSON (1839-1881). HE MARRIED LAURA (JACKSON) IN 1901. THEY LIVED WITH THEIR 5 CHILDREN AT THIS ADDRESS. SHIPPING CLERK. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. DIED ON 01/12/1921, AGED 55. BURIED IN HULL.

BORN CRANSWICK, DRIFFIELD 1890. SON OF ROBERT HANCE (1860-1937) & CLARA TATAM (1860-1918), OF 83 RUSTENBURG STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A GROCER. HE LIVED WITH HIS UNCLE, FRED NICHOLSON, OF 14 SWANN STREET HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL AS GUNNER, 2530, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. TRANSFERRED […]

BORN HULL 1890.WIFE HARRIET AT THIS ADDRESS. SON OF JOSEPH & SELINA HARRISON, AT 41 FRANKLIN STREET. A FORMER GROCER'S ASSISTANT. HE MANANGED THE HESSLE ROAD, CO-OPERATIVE BRANCH. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AS PRIVATE, 4582 ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY (RGA), 146TH HULL HEAVY BRIGADE. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL FOR BRAVERY. KILLED IN ACTION, […]

BORN HULL 1882. SON OF THE LATE BENJAMIN & ELLEN LAXTON, HULL. WIFE MARTHA LIVED IN 45 FLEET STREET, DERBY. PRESS PRINTER. HULL HEROES WEBSITE.

BORN TYNEMOUTH 1893. SoON OF FLORENCE ALICE & WILLIAM MACKAY. husband of JESSIE WILCOCK of this CWGC address. Adriatic SS was a British cargo steamer of 3,028grt that sailed from Newport for Marseille with coal (Admiralty charter) on the 31st October 1916 - presumed lost with 29 crew. BEAL, GEORGE ARTHUR (49), Steward, SS Adriatic, M […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN EDWARD NEWTON 10/1249. Born in December 1886, John was the eldest of five children to John and Isabel Newton, at 25 Middleburg Street, Hull. A Clerk by trade he was married to Dorothy Alexandra Newton and the couple lived at 6 Victoria Avenue, and 77 Rustenburg Street, Hull, with John working as a Cl […]

BORN HULL 1885. SCULCOATES. LIVED HULL. ENLISTED LONDON. PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. JOINED THE REGULARS IN 1906 AND WAS STATIONED AT VICTORIA BARRACKS, PORTSMOUTH. SON OF EDWARD & SARAH SCALEY. THERE ARE NO CWGC RECORDS OF HIS DEATH? HIS SISTER MRS TINDALE LIVED RUSTENBURG STREET, HULL. SHE REPORTED THAT HE DIED OF WOUNDS. HIS DEATH WAS […]

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF LOUISA SINGLETON AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS A CLERK. MARRIED IN HULL, 1916. HIS WIFE BERTHA WINIFIELD JOHNSON. MOVED TO 44 ABBEY ST, CLIFTON, YORK. HE ENLISTED IN YORK. EX 32/797, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. HE DIED ON 7TH MAY 1918, AGED 37. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW BERTHA AND HE LEFT £97 IN HIS WILL TO HER.