Area: Short Street, Hull Bus Station

BORN YORK 1877. HULL PAL. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY GALLAGHER ABOVE. SHORT STREET WAS NEAR THE BUS STATION & IS NOW DEMOLISHED. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE PATRICK GALLAGHER 14/28. Born in 1877 in York, Patrick was one of six children to William and Mary Gallagher of 5 Cottage Place, Moxam Street, Hull. A Labourer by trade, he a […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF JOHN HENRY BARNABAS IRWIN & MARY JANE WHITE. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. LIVED 5 ANVIL TERRACE, SPRING STREET AND 20 , SHORT STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 03/10/1915. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED AT HOME ON 25/01/1917, AGED 20. BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS NAME I […]

BORN BRIGG, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1894. SON OF ARTHUR LAWRENCE, OF 6 SHORT STREET, HULL. A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/08/1917, AGED 33. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL'S CLIFTON STREET SCHOOL MEMORIAL. HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM. NOTE: SOLDIER DIED RECORDS STATE HE WAS BORN IN HULL.

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF WILLIAM AND THE LATE MARY JANE SKELTON. HE WORKED BEFORE ENLISTMENT AT THE BRITISH OIL & CAKE MILLS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL AND SERVED WITH THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, (3RD HULL PALS BATTALION). SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 19/08/1916, AGED 17. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH APPEARED IN T […]