Area: Sharp Street

BORN HULL 1879. HUSBAND OF MABEL BARKER (BORN 1/9/1893) AT 64, SHARP STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF THE LATE ROBERT ARTHUR & MARY ANN BARKER. SERVED AS A ROYAL NAVY ENGINEER. LOST AT SEA, ON 13/12/1917, AGED 38. COMMEMORATED ON THE PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 13/11 […]

BORN FOLTON, GANTON, YORKSHIRE, 1897. ONLY SON OF TOM DARRELL BARKER AND ANNIE BARKER OF FOLKTON, OF SCARBOROUGH AND 1, SANDRINGHAM VILLAS, WELL STREET, NEWINGTON, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). SON OF A BRICKLAYER. HE HAD THREE OLDER SISTERS. HE WORKED AS A STABLE BOY (1911 CENSUS). HIS MOTHER DIED ON 18/11/1918. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SE […]

BORN HULL 1895. HULL PAL. SON OF THOMAS & SOPHIA ANNIE BARNBY. BEFORE WAR WAS A GENERAL POST OFFICE EMPLOYEE FOR SEVEN YEARS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 6TH APRIL 1915. SERVED IN EGYPT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON THE 13TH NOVEMBER 1916, AGED 21. LEFT YOUNG BROTHER SIDNEY AND SISTER EMILY BARNBY AT 28 SHARP STREET.

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF HENRY PAUL BATEMAN (1863-1949) & MINNIE EDWARDS (1864-1940),OF 140, SHARP STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A WAREHOUSE MAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7.5 INCHES TALL, 35-38.4 INCH CHEST, GOOD VISION AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. HE ENLISTED AS A GUNNER IN […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF ROBERT BENTLEY (1865-1935) & AMANDA HUTCHINSON (1872-1956), OF 50 SHARP STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). AN APPRENTICE PRINTER. SERVED WITH THE 2MD/1ST EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. TRANSFERRED TO BECOME A LEWIS GUNNER WITH THE 11TH HULL PALS. HE DIED OF GAS WOUNDS, ON 28/04/1918, AGED 23. HE IS BURIED AT HULL WESTE […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF ROBERT BENTLEY (1865-1935) & AMANDA HUTCHINSON (1872-1956), AT 50 SHARP STREET, HULL. A RAILWAY LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN THE 11TH HULL PALS, ON 29/06/1915, WITH HIS BROTHER HAROLD. AGED 22 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS. HE DIED OF FLU ON 05/12/1918, AGED 27. COMMEMORATED ON THE HULL CITY ENGINEERS MEMORIAL. HE IS BURIED IN S […]

BORN HULL 1880. A FORMER SOLDIER WITH THE  1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT FOR 7 YEARS. HE SERVED IN INDIA. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 42 INCH CHEST, "VERY GOOD" CHARACTER. MARRIED AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN 1908. HIS WIFE EMMA WHITBY (1889-1884). LIVED AT 44 EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 62 SHARP STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF GEORGE BRIDGES AND MARY ELLEANOR NEEDLER -15 CARLTON TERRACE, PROVIDENCE ROW, 64 SHARP STREET AND 5 ST. WILFRED'S TERRACE, SHARP STREET. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1897 WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. CHARLIE HAD A BROTHER HARRY AND SISTER MABEL. HE WORKED AS A LABOURER. HE MARRIED JESSIE MOWTHORPE, ON 07/07/1917 AT ST AUGUSTINE'S CHUR […]

BORN 16/01/1896. SON OF JOHN CARTER & CAROLINE ELIZABETH BRAIN (1867-1908), OF 138 SHARP STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).  AN APPRENTICE JOINER (1911 CENSUS) AND CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 02/02/1914. SERVED WITH THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOO, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 33 INCH CHEST. DISCHARGED WITH SILV […]

BORN HULL JANUARY 1899. ON HULL MEMORIALS. YOUNGEST SON OF WILLIAM COLDBRIDGE & RACHEL COOK OF 3, GRAFTON STREET, HULL, 7, FLORENCE AVENUE, PRINCES ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 135, SHARP STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/04/1918, AGED 19. BURIED AT MONT-BERN […]

BORN ST HELIER, JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLES, 1872. SON OF JOHN COOPER AND SUSANNAH CHAMBERS. A FORMER SOLDIER AND SHOP KEEPER AT 88 NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL. WIDELY KNOWN IN THE DISTRICT FOR HIS GOOD BUSINESS QUALITIES AND PLEASANT DISPOSITION. HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HULL BREWERY COMPANY FOR 18 YEARS AND CARRIED ON THE BEER BUSINESS AT THE […]

BORN NOTTINGHAM, 1886. SON OF RICHARD CRAYTON (1855-1911) & ELIZABETH CRAYTON (1848-1921), OF 4, QUEENS ROAD, HULL AND 40, SHARP STREET. HULL. (WAR PENSION & ARMY ADDRESS). A GROCERS CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 27/01/1915, AGED 29. SERVED WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL COMMERCIALS). POSTED TO EGYPT ON 29/ […]

BORN HULL 1876. SON OF SAMUEL HEARFIELD (1836-1890) & BETSY ANN FORSEY (1836-1909). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTER. A JOINER BY TRADE. HE MARRIED EVA HARRISON (1873-1945), AT HULL, IN 1897.  THEY LIVED WITH THEIR FIVE CHILDREN  AT 74, SHARP STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILL […]

BORN HULL, 1898. YOUNGEST CHILD OF THOMAS WATSON HILL & MARTHA JANE TAYLOR (1861-1939), OF 158. SHARP STREET, HULL (CWGC & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A STONE MASON. HE HAD ONE BROTHERS, JOHN HILL, WHO LIVED AT 49 REYNOLDSON STREET, HULL AND TWO SISTERS, MRS ALICE LOCK AND EDITH MARY PAUL. EMPLOYED AS A ENGINE DRIVER AND MARINE […]

BORN LEEDS 1899. ONLY SON OF JANE BROOK (1871-1939) & THE LATE JOSEPH DIXON KIRKWOOD (1867-1919), 18 BULLER GROVE, HAREHILLS, LEEDS. A CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON THE 12/09/1916, AGED 17 YEARS AND 5 MONTHS. HIS ARMY ADDRESS WAS 60 SHARP STREET, HULL. HE WAS CALLED UP ON 27/04/1917. TRAINED AT RUGELEY CAMP. POSTED TO THE WEST YORKSHIRE […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF GEORGE EDWARD PITTAWAY (1863-1928) & ADA SELLARS (1870-1962), OF  73 SHARP STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL. (CWGC ADDRESS) SON OF A JOINER. SECOND OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.  HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A SAW MILL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF WILLIAM & RACHEL ANN RODWELL. JOINER BY TRADE. NOTE OTHER RODWELL'S AT 3 EPWORTH STREET.

BORN NORMANBY, LINCS, 1885. SON OF DAVID PETERS & ELLEN SCOTT ABOVE. SUNK OFF BEACHY HEAD. CREW DIED BOARDING RESCUE SHIP HIT BY SUB. UB 40. LISTED AS S SCOTT ON SHARP STREET ROH AS FALLEN. MERCHANT MARINE. SS Tycho, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd., Hull in 1904 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wils […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1895. SON OF ARTHUR VAREY (1866-1942) & MARTHA ELEAANOR STEFF (1862-1938), OF 150, SHARP STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A LIGHTERMAN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HE WORKED IN A PAINT MILL, WITH HIS BROTHER, PERCY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, THE FIRST HULL P […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF WILLIAM WARD (1850-1918) AND ELIZABETH HOUGH (1853-1891), OF HULL. A PACKER. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1912. HUSBAND OF LILLIAN RICKLES (1886-1955), OF 78, SHARP STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX PRIVATE, 26427, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 9TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACT […]