BORN HULL 16/06/1892. SON OF HENRY CHAPLIN & GERTRUDE BROWN AT 26 , TYNE STREET, HULL. A FORMER ABLE SEAMAN, FOR THE WILSON SHIPPING LINE. HE SERVED WITH THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. LOST AT SEA, ON 26/06/1917, AGED 26. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL. HIS FATHER AND TWO ALSO BROTHER SERVE […]
BORN HULL 1887. SON OF MARY JANE (FISHER) DOBSON ABOVE. EX NER WORKER. 1918 VOTERS. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE RICHARD DOBSON 38281. Born in July 1887, Richard's early life is something of a mystery as I can't pin down his parents. The 1901 and 1911 Census both have him residing with his stepmother, a Mary Jane Fisher, suggesting b […]
2nd Hand
BORN HULL 1864. HMT Egret. launch Date 30/09/1898; Originally a Hull registered trawler (H.21) and owned by Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co., Hull; Requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1918; Vessel torpedoed and sunk without warning, 2 miles E x N of Spurn Light vessel; 11 lives lost including the Master. CREW LOST ON EGRET (H21), enem […]
Stoker 1st Class
BORN HULL 09/09/1880. ONLY SON OF ROBERT FRANKLAND (1843--1915) & ANNIE WORTLEY (1859-1904) FRANKLAND (AKA FRANKLIN) OF 37, FINSBURY GROVE, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY, IN 1897. SERVED AS A PETTY OFFICER STOKER. LOST AT SEA ON 22/09/1914, AGED 33. COMMEMORATED ON TRINITY NAVAL MEMORIAL AND CHATHAM NAVAL MEMOR […]
BORN MARFLEET 07/04/1883. A LINEN DRAPER. ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 38468 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. GRANDSON OF CLARA & GEORGE GRANTHAM OF 10 NEPEAN GROVE, TYNE STREET, HULL & LATER 3 ASH ROAD, TRANMERE PARK, LIVERPOOL. HE LEFT WIDOW KATE EYRE AT 5 FRODSHAM STREET, EAST HULL (PENSION ADDRESS),WHO HE MARRIED IN HULL IN 1908 […]
BORN PRESTON, HULL, 1892. SON OF MARY JANE LOADES & THE LATE WALLIS GREEN (1845-1910), AT 8 , TYNE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 64, HUNTINGDON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BEFORE ENLISTING, HE WORKED AT SEA IN THE MERCHANT NAVY AND IN MUNITIONS. EMPLOYED AS A SHELL TURNER FOR MESSRS. AMOS & SMITH LTD. ENGINEERS, AT […]
Trimmer
Born Yarmouth, Norfolk, 30 Dec 1854. son of James Harboard and Mary Ann Spooner. Married Sarah Ann Eastick, at St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 19 Jan 1884. Husband of Sarah A Mills Eastick, of 14 Princes Avenue West Dock Street Hull (1911 Census) and 24, Tyne Street, Hessle Road, Hull. He had three sons and one daughter Alice […]
BORN HULL 27/06/1898. SON OF ALFRED HINCHSLIFF AND GERTRUDE GIBSON. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER GERTRUDE. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 13 FLINTON STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND AT THIS NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED WHEN WAR BEGAN. SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, AS A COAL TRIMMER. HE WAS KILLED BY A MOTOR CAR IN THE STREET, OF FELIXSTOWE […]
PRIVATE WALTER RAYMOND HOMAN 10/968. Born in Hull, 1896, the fourth of five children (and only son), to John and Elizabeth Homan of 16 Aigburth Avenue, St. George’s Road, Hull. and 5 Tyne Street, Hessle Road, Hull (Army Address). Walter was a Clerk before the war, but queued in the ‘long uneven lines’ on 7th September 1914, to join the t […]
1st Lieutenant
BORN HULL 1882. SON OF ARTHUR & RHODA LAW. WIFE MABEL LIVED AT 20 TYNE STREET, HULL. (CWGC NAVAL RECORDS). Jan Lettens 24/07/2010 The British fishing vessel Achilles II was sunk on 26th June 1918 by a mine from UC-4 (Eberhard Schmidt), off the Shipwash Lightvessel. There were 13 casualties. Carl Racey † 10/01/2013 In August 1914 the […]
BORN HULL 1888. SON OF LOUIS MOSS (1859-1941) & RACHEL BLASHKER (1862-1945), AT 4 TYNE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL, 12 DEE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, & LATER 9 PALACE AVENUE, BRIDLINGTON. SON OF A JEWISH WATCHMAKER. HE WORKED AS A CARPENTER. HE HAD PREVIOUS SERVED THREE YEARS IN THE TERRITORIALS. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS, AT H […]
Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 25/06/1895. SON JAMES JOPLING RUMBLE (1860-1941) & REBECCA RUDD BURNHAM (1861-1903), OF VICTORIA DOCK TAVERN, WATERHOUSE LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN AND THREE BROTHERS LOST IN THE WAR. HIS WIFE MARY ANN RUMBLE LIVED AT 8 TYNE STREET, HULL HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL IN THE 6TH […]
Corporal
BORN HULL 04/01/1898. SON OF THE GEORGE SANDERS (1859-1924) & ANNIE MARCHANT (1861-1942), OF 9 DAY STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) & ABOVE ADDRESS. SON OF A FISHERMAN FROM DEVON. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. A FORMER CLERK FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL AS PRIVATE, 3007, 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, […]
Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 02/09/1889. SON OF THE GEORGE SANDERS (1859-1924) & ANNIE MERCHANT (1861-1942), OF 9 DAY STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) & 8, SYDNEY GROVE, TYNE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A FISHERMAN FROM DEVON. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. FORMERLY A CLERK FOR THE HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAYS. AN ORIGINAL HULL PAL. GEORGE JOINED THE H […]
BORN HULL 1893. SON OF HARRY & SARAH ANN SAUNDERS (1855-1915). SON OF A BREWER'S LABOURER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. BEFORE ENLISTING HE WORKED FOR THE HULL BREWERY. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED WITH "A" COMPANY, THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL COMMERCIALS). HIS COMMANDING OFFICER, LIEUT. RICE, DESCRIB […]
BORN HULL 07/10/1891. SON OF MARY CLAPPISON (1857-1934) & WILLIAM STOCKTON (1855-1904), OF 107, HAVELOCK STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 35, TYNE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD SEVEN BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. EMPLOYED AS A MARINE TRIMMER. LOST AT SEA ON THE TRAWLER, "COTSMUIR", 22/02/1917, AGED 26. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE […]
Private
BORN BEVERLEY 1887. ONLY SON OF ROBERT TOWSE (1860- ) & KATE ALICE HANWELL (1864-1930), OF 15, TYNE STREET, HULL AND 45, WALLIKER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE SISTER, ALICE. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/03/1918, AGED 30. COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEM […]
BORN HULL 1892. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS EDWIN WOODMANCEY (1868-1928) & GERTRUDE MARIA WOODMANCEY (1869-1940), OF THIS ADDRESS. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A FISH DOCK LABOURER. HE LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS. LOST WHEN THE 'KESTREL' SANK IN A COLLISION WITH THE GRIMSBY TRAWLER 'HYDRA', ON 21/02/1915, AGED 22. SEVEN LIVES WERE LOST. HIS DEATH AND […]
