Area: Spyvee Street

BORN KNOTTINGLEY, YORKSHIRE 1884.SON OF THE LATE HENRY & MARY DIXON, HULL. ENLISTED HULL. DIED ON 01/07/1916, AT FRICOURT, AGED 32. HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE SPYVEE STREET MEMORIAL. The official battalion war diary for this day records losses as 750 soldiers and 27 officers, killed, missing and wounded. At dawn on 1st July the 10th […]

BORN HULL 15/11/1888. SON OF HENRY DRY (1862-1890) & ALEXANDRIA CAROLINE BENNETT (1862-1946), OF 9, ST JOHNS TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 6, HERBERTS TERRACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.  WORKED AS A FISH LABOURER AND CREW MEMBER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 122 LBS WEI […]

BORN HULL 1879. SON OF JOSEPH & MARY EARNSHAW. ONE OF NINE 9 CHILDREN, LIVING AT 7 JAMES SQUARE, HODGSON STREET. HE WAS A GENERAL LABOURER AND LODGED WITH HIS SISTER ELSI AND THE DADDY FAMILY AT 4 SARAH ANN'S TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL, (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON THE SOMME, ON 15/09/1916, AGED 3 […]

BORN HULL 1900. SON OF JOSEPH EARNSHAW AND MARY PARTIS. SON OF A LABOURER. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN, HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS, LIVING AT 18 ANNS PLACE, CHAPMAN STREET AND 7 JAMES SQUARE, HODGSON STREET, HULL. HE WORKED AS A LABOURER, WHEN WAR BEGAN. LIVING WITH HIS SISTER ELSIE, BROTHER, ROBERT AND THE DADDY FAMILY AT 2 SARAH ANN […]

BORN HULL 1880. ENLISTED HULL. HUSBAND OF SARAH ELLIS, OF 7 DAVIDS TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL. HIS FAMILY LIVED A T 3A BUCKINGHAM STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR FENNERS' AT MARFLEET. HE TRANSFERRED FROM THE 5TH EYR CYCLIST TO THE 4TH EYR. HE WAS "SHOT THROUGH THE HEART BY A SNIPER." ON 06/03/1916, AGED 36. […]

BORN BARROW ON HUMBER 1888. REGULAR SOLDIER. BASED AT WALTHAMSTOW, ESSEX. SON OF CHARLES AND MARY FISH, 55 CHURCH STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL. DIED OF WOUNDS AT CARDIFF GENERAL HOSPITAL, ON 02/10/1916, AGED 28. BURIED AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY, HULL. HIS WIFE ANNIE FISH LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HS BROTHE […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF THOMAS & ALICE OSGERBY GREEN, AT THIS ADDRESS. ENLISTED HULL. DIED AT HOME, ON 18/03/1918, AGED 25. BURIED: St John The Evangelist Churchyard, Hipswell, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England

BORN HULL 1900. ELDEST SON OF JABEZ & AMANDA HARRISON, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. KNOWN AS 'BOB' HARRISON. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HIS FATHER WAS A LIGHTERMAN ON THE RIVER HULL. HE ENLISTED ON 20/02/1918 AND WENT TO FRANCE ON 13/08/1918. POSTED TO THE 15TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AGED 17. HE LEFT SISTERS ADA, ANN & GE […]

Private ALBERT HIGGINSON, 19431. Born at Hull, in October 1898, Albert was the youngest of five children to Henry Higginson (1869-1933) and Mary Anne Noble (1870-1911), of 17 Spyvee Street, Hull. He enlisted on 7th June 1915 when still 16, but seems to have been a man of the world already. He was hospitalised in Alexandria, Egypt over Ch […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF ROBERT AND SARAH ANN HOLLAND, OF 39, NEW GERGE STREET, HULL 91911 CENSUS) AND 92, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). FORMER DOCK LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 35-37 INCH CHEST, 119 LBS WEIGHT HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 07/12/1915. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 26754, EYR. ARRIVED FRANCE, ON 03/08/1916. TRANSF […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF MARK HOTCHKIN (1864-1930) & EMMA (MINNIE) HOTCHKIN (1868-1951), OF 7 SOPHIA'S TERRACE. SPYVEE STREET, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. A FORMER RECKITTS WORKER. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 34-36 INCH CHEST. HE ENLISTED WITH HIS BROTHERS, IN THE HULL PALS AND WAS KILLED WITH HIS OLD […]

BORN ELLINGHAM, NORFOLK, ON  01/01/1880. SON OF WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH IVES, (1853-1888), OF BEAUMONT STREET, HULL. A BROTHER MEMBER OF THE RAOB (NO;899), ST GEORGES ROAD, LODGE, HULL. HE JOINED THE NAVY AS A BOY & FOUGHT DURING THE BOER WAR AND WAS WITH ADMIRAL BEATTY, ON HMS LION, AT JUTLAND IN MAY 1916. HE WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILL […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF WALTER CHARLES JACKSON AND ELIZABETH ANN WARHURST, OF 111, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN LIVING AT 111, SPYVEE STREET. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1914, AGED 41. EMPLOYED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 17/09/1914. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 12TH EYR (HULL PALS). SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANC […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM MADDISON & FLORENCE KEAL. WORKED AS A FARM LABOURER AND FOR THE HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAYS AS A RULLYMAN. HIS WIFE MARY ELIZABETH KEAL LIVED AT 6 GROVES TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (HDM 13/05/1918). HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. EX 12/1308, EYR. TRANSFERRED TO THE 2ND KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFAN […]

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF WALTER MATTHEWS (1859-1925) & HANNAH LOUISA CALLAN (1860-1928), OF 10 WILLIAMS TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDDRESS). HE LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS AT 10 BUCKINGHAM TERRACE, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER AT THE BRITANNIA […]

BORN HULL 1890. SECOND SON OF WILLIAM JAMES McCANN (1865-1921) & MARY ELIZABETH CAPES (1866-1942), AT 110, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). SON OF A CARPENTER. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS AN APPRENTICE BLACKSMITH. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 36-38 CH […]

BORN HULL 1889. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM JAMES & MARY ELIZABETH MCCANN AT 110 , SPYVEE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A CARPENTER. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A SAWMILL LABOURER AT MASSEY TIMBER MERCHANTS, NEW CLEVELAND STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 22081, 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND WITH THE TYNESIDE SCOTTIS […]

BORN MIDDLESBROUGH, 16/07/1869. SON OF CHARLES AND MARY McNULTY. HE MARRIED IN 1908, AT HULL. HIS WIFE MARY JANE McNULTY LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SERVED AS A ROYAL NAVY, COOK. HE DIED ON 20/08/1917, AGED 49. HE IS BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF DANIEL McPHAIL MERRYLESS (1860-1936) AND ELIZA HARRISON (1862-1911), THIS ADDRESS. HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN SCOTLAND AND WORKED AS AN ENGINE AND MACHINE FITTER. ALBERT WAS ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A SAW MILL LABOURER. HIS WIFE ALICE YEAMAN (1893-1983) AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN, WALTER, ALBERT AND FLORENCE, L […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF DANIEL McPHAIL MERRYLESS (1860-1936) AND ELIZA HARRISON (1862-1911), LIVING AT 86 SPYVEE STREET. HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN SCOTLAND AND WORKED AS AN ENGINE AND MACHINE FITTER. ARTHUR WAS ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. HE WAS EMPLOYED WITH THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE HULL PALS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON […]