, SWANLAND, EAST RIDING, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Died on
16/08/1917
Aged
24
William Barber is the only non-Yorkshireman on the Swanland war memorial and the only person who was married. He was born in Patricroft, part of Salford, Lancashire, on 18 April 1893. His parents were William, a ship canal labourer, and Jane Barber. By 1901 the family had moved to Yorkshire and were in Hessle. In the 1911 Census William […]
Private
BORN ELLOUGHTON 1875. ENLISTED HESSLE. LIVED SWANLAND. WIFE ANNIE BINNINGTON & 2 CHILDREN. FARM LABOURER. REPORTED AS A HULL CASUALTY IN HDM 19/2/18. William Henry Binnington was born in Elloughton on 21 January 1885 to Henry, a farm labourer, and Jane Binnington. Henry died in 1887 and it is not known what happened to Jane. At the t […]
Private
BORN HULL 1893. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SON OF WILLIAM FARMERY FROM SWANLAND, HULL. HE WORKED AS A LABOURER FOR THE NORTH EASTER RAILWAYS. A FORMER EAST YORKSHIRE RESERVIST, HE WAS CALLED UP TWO DAYS AFTER THE WAR BEGAN. HE WAS IN THE TRENCHES FOR 13 DAYS WHEN HE WAS KILLED BY A SHELL FRAGMENT, ON 18/10/1914, AGED 22. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON TH […]
Corporal
Arthur was a Corporal in the 1st/4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment and is the only serviceman on the Swanland War Memorial who is not a Private. He was born in Harswell, near Market Weighton, on 17 March 1896, the first child of Arthur John Hamlin (1875-1926), a groom, and Sarah Ann Fentiman (1878-1975). Five years later the f […]
BORN PICKERING, YORKSHIRE, 17/05/1890. SON OF MITCHELL (1863-1925) & CHARLOTTE HOLTBY (1865-1953), OF NORTH COATES FARM, SOUTH CAVE, SWANLAND AND BRANTINGHAM. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. A SINGLE MAN AND SKILLED LABOURER. WORKED AS A FARMER AND WAGGONER IN BRANTINGHAM. EMIGRATED TO TORONTO, CANADA, ON 20/04/1911. MOVED […]
BORN WALTHAM ABBEY 1884. WIFE MAY WATSON SMITH LIVED IN SWANLAND, HULL. SON OF WILLIAM & ANNIE SMITH, WALTHAM ABBEY, MIDDLESEX. SERVED IN THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS. DIED OF PNEUMONIA, ON 13/09/1918, AGED 33. HE IS BURIED AT LAHANA MILITARY CEMETERY, GREECE (Latitude: 40.9603 Longitude: 23.1911). HIS GRAVE READS, "THY WILL BE DONE"
