Area: Rustenburg Street

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF FRED & AMY CAROLINE BUSH, OF 3, WOODLAND VILLAS, RUSTENBURG STREET, HULL, (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). WORKED AT DE LA POLE CAFE. ENLISTED AUGUST 1915. HENRY SERVED IN THE HULL COMMERICALS, 10TH EYR. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. TRANSFERRED TO THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED. D […]

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 22 , RUSTENBURG STREET, HULL AND 13, WHITEHAVEN AVENUE, EXMOUTH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SHIPPING CLERK. HE SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. DIED ON 01 […]

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 1889. SON OF JOSEPH HARRISON & SELINA WHEELDON AT 41 FRANKLIN STREET, HULL. A FORMER GROCER'S ASSISTANT. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE MANANGED THE HESSLE ROAD, CO-OPERATIVE BRANCH. HE MARRIED AT HULL IN 1912. HUSBAND OF HARRIET PRATT (1888-1941), AT 29, RUSTENBURG STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AS PRIVAT […]

BORN YORK 1882. SON OF THE LATE BENJAMIN LAXTON (1855-1892) & ELLEN LIDGLEY (1857-1939), OF 17, RUSTENBURG STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, HARGREAVE AND ARTHUR AND ONE SISTER, DAISY. HE MARRIED AT DERBY, IN 1912. HUSBAND OF MARTHA GOUNDRILL HOOD (1885-1977), LIVED AT 45, FLEET STREET, DERBY AND 17 , RUSTENBURG STREE […]

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.