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BORN GLOUCESTER 1885. SON OF DANIEL McPHAIL MERRYLESS (1860-1936) AND ELIZA HARRISON (1862-1911). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN AT THIS ADDRESS. MARRIED SCULCOATES, HULL, JULY 1913. HIS WIFE VIOLET BREWER AND DAUGHTER JOYCE MERRYLEES (BORN 1914), LIVED AT 7 WASHINGTON VILLAS, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL. HE HAS BEEN N THE ARMY FOR FOUR YEARS AND SERVED […]

BORN HULL 03/12/1898. SON KNOWLES METCALF & KATE VIOLET METCALFE, OF 30, BLACKFRIARGATE, QUEENS STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND THIS 7. WILLIAM TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL. YOUNGEST OF THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HIS FATHER WAS A HAWKER AND CONVICTED THIEF. WILLIAM ATTENDED SALTHOUSE SCHOOL, HULL. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS UNTR […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF DANIEL & MARGARET PARTIS. HIS LATE FATHER WAS REVEREND AT ST PAULS CHURCH, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A SAWMILL LABOURER. HE WORKED FOR MESSR, NEWSUM & SONS, GARSIDE. HE MARRIED IN 1909. HIS WIFE FLORENCE TABITHA LOFT, LIVED AT 12 HANNAHS TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN,THE ELDEST ONLY FIVE Y […]

BORN NEWARK, NOTTS, 1884. SON OF JOHN AND REBECCA PEGG, WHO RAN THE BOAT HOUSE INN, NEWARK. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN HULL. EMPLOYED AS A RULLEYMAN. HE MARRIED HILDA KNAGGS IN 1906. HIS WIFE HILDA 6 DAVIDS TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET (1911 CENSUS) & AT THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/10/1917, AGED 33. HIS […]

BORN OLDCOATES, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 1893. SON OF RICHARD AND JANE E. RIMMINGTON. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A FARM HORSEMAN ON WHITELEES FARM, BRADFIELD, NEAR SHEFFIELD. HIS WIFE SARAH E LIVED AT SPYVEE STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN SHEFFIELD, YORKS. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 184895, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HE TRANSFERRED TO THE 23RD NORTHUMB […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF SAMUEL ROBERT ROWAN (1862-1939) & SARAH ELLEN ARCHER (1868-1953), OF 80 SPYVEE STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. WAS A MEMBER OF THE WESLEYAN, KINGSTON CHAPEL SUNDAY SCHOOL, AT WITHAM. EMPLOYED BY MESSR, LAVARACK & GODDARD, SAWMILLS IN WITHAM, HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOHN DEAN SHEARD (1857-1918) & SARAH PYBUS GARDINER (1858-1924), OF 23 SARAH ANN'S TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS), OF 8 MARINE PARADE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL AND 10 QUEENS AVENUE, SUBWAY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND FIVE SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A WATERMAN. ENLISTED HULL. P […]

BORN HULL 1888, AT MABBS ENTRY. SON OF JOHN DEAN SHEARD & SARAH PYBUS GARDINER, OF MIRRIAM PLACE SPYVEE STREET, HULL. SON OF A KEEL OWNER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. A MASTER MARINER. HE WAS CAPTAIN OF THE KEEL, "CLARA, WHICH CAPSIZED TAKING COAL FROM GOOLE TO ST ANDREWS DOCK. HE DROWNED OFF REEDS ISLAND, IN THE HUMBER, ON THE 16/12/1914 […]

BORN HULL 03/12/1881. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM & MARY ELIZABETH SNOW, OF 24 LIME STREET, HULL. MARRIED SARAH ANN YEAMAN ON 14/03/1903, AT ST MARTINS, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A STARCH WORKS LABOURER, LIVING AT 23 JOHNS PLACE, CHAPMAN STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 23/12/1914, AGED 32. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 30/06/1915. SERVED […]

BORN HULL 1893. SOUTHCOATES. SON OF JAMES & ANNIE ELIZABETH SOWERBY - WALLER STREET (1901 CENSUS) AND SOUTH PARADE, HULL. EDUCATED AT HYMERS COLLEGE. ENLISTED IN HULL. A CAPTAIN OF THE 2ND BATTALION WRITING TO RELATIVES SAYS THAT HE WAS KILLED BY A SHELL ON THE 08/101915, WHICH LANDED IN THE TRENCH & HE WAS BURIED NEARBY. HE WAS […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF EDITH AND FATHER CHARLES WILLIAM STAINFORTH LIVED AT 1 GRIMSBY LANE, HULL MARKET PLACE, WITH HIS SIBLINGS. WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. ENLISTED HULL 6/10/1914. IT SEEMS MILITARY DISCIPLINE DID NOT AGREE WITH HIM. ON 8/3/1915 WILLIAM WAS DETAINED FOR 42 DAYS FOR STRIKING HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER, BUT RETURNED TO DUTY AFT […]

BORN HULL 1880. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM & CHRISTINA TAYLOR, THIS ADDRESS. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/03/1918, AGED 38. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARTHA. HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON ST MARKS MEMORIAL. HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 5TH MAY 1915. * COMMEMORATED: Pozieres Memorial, Pozieres, […]

BORN SOUTHCOATES, HULL 1895. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY (ARCHER) TEALL, OF 10 HERBERTS TERRACE, WALLER STREET, 9 FREEHOLD TERRACE, COURTNEY STREET AND 23 SARAH ANN TERRACE, SPRING STREET, HULL. A SHIP YARD LABOURER AND WOOD MILLER FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 31/12/1913. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 1609, 4TH EYR. DESCRIBED AS 5 […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & HANNAH MARY THOMPSON AT 3 CRANBOURNE TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) & THEN MOVED TO FROME, SOMERSET IN 1911. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A MONOTYPE OPERATOR. HE ENLISTED AT FROME, JOINING THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY. DIED IN IRAQ, ON 12/06/1916, AGED 23. HIS BROTHER, JOHN WI […]

BORN HULL 28/03/1883, AT 4 COACH AND HORSES YARD, MYTONGATE, HULL.  PARENTS DECEASED. HE MARRIED AT HOLY TRINITY,HULL, ON 21/06/1899, AGED 18. HIS WIFE WAS POLLY SAXBY  (1880-1952). THEY LIVED AT 8 AINSLEY TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL, WITH THEIR SIX CHILDREN WILLIAM, ALBERT, THOMAS, ALICE, POLLY, AND ?. EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER. HIS ARMY […]

BORN HULL JUNE 1893. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY TUNE & SARAH HANNAH MASON AT 45 SPYVEE STREET (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. HE WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED AT HEDON ROAD RACE COURSE, ON 24/08/1915, AGED 22. BURIED HEDON ROAD CEMETERY. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER. HE LEFT A BROTH […]

BORN HULL 1894. HIS WIFE LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. On December 14th, 1919, the British trawler ISLE OF MAN went missing in the North Sea with all on board. She was not heard of ever since. CREW LOST ON ISLE OF MAN (H826), missing in the North Sea, 14th December, 1919. CUNNIN […]