Area: St Mark Street

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF JOHN JAMES BETTS AND MARY JACKMAN, OF 10 MILLER TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET AND 58 CLIFTON TERRACE, DAY STREET, WELLINGTON LANE, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE 13TH HULL PALS AND WAS KILLED ON THE 13TH NOVEMBER 1916, AGED 31. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A PORTER AND OPERATER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS, AT THE SCULCOATES S […]

BORN HULL, 07/04/1884. SON OF THOMAS DOUGLAS & FLORENCE ADA DOUGLAS. EDUCATED AT ST MARKS SCHOOL. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY IN DECEMBER 1904. HE MARRIED FLORENCE ADA REDFERN, AT ST MARKS CHURCH, HULL. THEY LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS WITH DAUGHTER, FLO (BORN 13/08/1913). HE SERVED 13 YEARS AND JOINED THE RESERVES. HE WAS MOBILIZ […]

BORN HULL 1878. SON OF MARY FOWLER, AT THIS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL REPORTED AS KILLED IN ACTION ON 22/07/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH AND LIVING AT THIS ADDRESS IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON 21/08/1915. * HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT JOINTLY TO HIS MOTHER MARY AND MISS ADA ALICE KNOTT. NB; FOWLER - 1 MAY TERRACE, WALKER ST,

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM HARRISON & LOUISA BOLLINGHAM HARRISON. A SOAP FACTORY WORKER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED AT YPRES. DIED OF WOUNDS IN MANCHESTER HOSPITAL, ON 12/05/1915, AGED 18. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 12TH MAY 1915. * THERE ARE N […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1882. WIFE EDITH WARD ABOVE. DEATH REPORTED IN HDM 15/02/1918. On February 15th, 1915, the British cargo ship MEMBLAND, built in 1900 by William Gray & Co., Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Macbeth & Co., West Harlepool, left Hull for Tyne in ballast, and went missing. She was not heard of ever since. 25 p […]