Area: Selby, North Yorkshire

BORN HEADINGLEY, LEEDS, 1895. SON OF RICHARD & JANE ATKINSON, AT BOLTON PERCY, NORTH YORKSHIRE (ARMY ADDRESS) AND 23 HERMITAGE ROAD, BRIDLINGTON, (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT HULL ON 04/05/1915. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 2010, EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. POSTED TO THE 2/4TH YORK AND LANCASTER (HALLAMSHIRE) REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 23 […]

BORN SELBY 1896. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM DALE AND SARAH ANN MORRIS, BISHOPTHORPE, YORKSHIRE. HE HAD THREE SISTERS. HE ENLISTED HULL, IN APRIL 1915. TRAINED AT WITTEY CAMP FROM 03/09/1915. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 1143 14TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT THE SOMME, ON 26/09/1916, AGED 20. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMOR […]

BORN HULL 25/12/1894. SON OF WILLIAM LYELL KIRBY & FANNY ELSTON, SELBY. EDUCATED AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL. EMPLOYED AT THIS FATHER'S MILLS IN SELBY. GAZETTED TO 2ND LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY, IN NOVEMBER 1915. PROMOTED TO FULL LIEUTENANT, IN OCTOBER 1917. THEN CAPTAIN IN DECEMBER 1917. SERVED WITHTHE 63RD SIEGE BATTERY IN […]

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF WILLIAM STANTON (1850-1934) AND SARAH PROCTOR (1849-1911). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. MARRIED AT THE WESLEYAN CHURCH CHAPEL, ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL, ON 13TH JULY 1902. HUSBAND OF  MARY ANN VERA BRYANT (1881- ), AT 30, PARROTT STREET, SELBY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD SIX CHILDREN, MINNIE […]

BORN HULL 1882. ONLY SON OF EMMA (1839-1883) AND JOHN STOTHARD, AN ELDERLY WIDOWER, LIVING IN SUTTON, STONEFERRY, HULL. HIS PARENTS DIED WHILE HE WAS YOUNG AND HE HAD NO SIBLINGS. HE MARRIED GERTRUDE ABRAM, AT HULL ON 30/03/1907. THEIR SON DAVID WAS BORN ON 21/06/1907. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 6 FERNDALE, REDCAR STREET HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDR […]

BORN HULL 08/12/1889. SON OF  WILLIAM THORNTON (1863-1933) AND ALICE MARIA WHITING (1863-1927). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND A SISTER. SON OF AN ENGINE DRIVER, FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY LINE. ALFRED WAS EDUCATED IN SELBY. SERVED AS A FIREMAN ON THE YORK CORPORATION TUGS. JOINED THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON THE 15/11/1915.  KILLED IN A […]

BORN HULL 1895. LIVED SELBY. SON OF ERNEST & CLARA ANN TUTE, OF 23 BULLER STREET, SELBY (CWGC ADDRESS).