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BORN BEVERLEY 22/01/1879. SON OF THOMAS BRETT (1844-1914) & JANE FROST (1852-1938), OF 96, STEYNBURG STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS RETIRED SOLDIER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS SERVING IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS WHEN WAR BEGAN. DIED AT GIBRALTA MILITARY HOSPITAL […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JAMES W & MARTHA HILTON, OF 2, STEYNBURG STREET, HULL (war pension address) WIFE RUTH AMELIA HILTON, OF 7, SYMONS STREET, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A HULL POSTMAN. HE ENLISTED IN MAY 1915. SERVED AS A CYCLIST, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/08/1916, AGED 24. ADDRESS &am […]

BORN HULL, 1887. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM POWLEY (1858-1896) AND SARAH ANN JOHNSON (1860-1907). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND A BROTHER. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A BAKERS DELIVERY MAN/CONFECTIONER, FOR MR TEANBY BAKER'S, SOUTHCOATES LANE, HULL. HE MARRIED, HANNAH WHITE (1889-1962), AT COGAN STREET CHURCH, HULL, O […]

BORN NORWICH 1887. ONLY SON OF ALFRED FREDERICK POWLEY (1860-1907) AND JANE ELIZA BUCKINGHAM (1861-1942), OF RIVERSIDE, REEDHAM, NORFOLK (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE SISTERS. LIVED AND WORKED IN HULL. HE ENLISTED AT GREAT YARMOUTH. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 16/08/1914. SERVED AS A GUNNER, WITH THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. AWARDED THE […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF EDWIN & JULIA A SHAW, ABOVE 1911 & THEN CROSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE AND SCUNTHORPE. A GROCER'S ERRAND LAD. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/09/1915, AGED 20. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, EDWIN SHAW. HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM.

BORN WHITLEY, YORKS 1887. THIRD SON OF JOHN & ANN THOMPSON, OF 1 CARLTON AVENUE, VICTOR STREET, HULL. FOURTH OF FIVE CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 27504, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 107TH MACHINE GUN CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 03/08/1917, AGED 30. COMMEMORATED ON TH […]