Stoker 1st Class
16 CHURCH STREET, THORNES LANE, WAKEFIELD, , WEST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
31/05/1916
Aged
31
BORN HULL 04/08/1884. SON OF ADA AND THE LATE GEORGE ARMITAGE, AT 16 CHURCH STREET, THORNES LANE, WAKEFIELD, , WEST YORKSHIRE (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL'S GILLETT STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916). ALSO LISTED AS DROWNED ON THE SYKES STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 09 October 1916) HE SERVED […]
BORN NEWTON HILL, WRENTHORPE, WAKEFIELD, 03/10/1879. SON OF WILLIAM COX (1851-1943) AND LEAH COX (1851-1921). SON OF A TAILOR. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A LABOURER. HE MARRIED ANNIE KERSHAW (1881-1954) IN WEST PARADE CHAPEL, WAKEFIELD, ON 02/11/1907. HIS WIFE ANNIE AND DAUGHTER GLADYS (909-1986), LIVED AT 7 BETHEL PLACE, THOR […]
BORN HULL 1881. SON OF WILLIAM AND CLARA ELLIS. A SERGEANT IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY RESERVES. HE DIED IN LEEDS ON 11/09/1915, AGED 35. BURIED AT HOME IN WAKEFIELD. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MAY LISTER, MARY JANE MOSS, AND ELIZABETH A KALE. SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS STATE THAT HE WAS BORN IN HULL.
44 WHIOTEHALL STREET, WAKEFIELD, , WEST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
17/09/1917
Aged
33
BORN HULL 1884. ENLISTED WAKEFIELD. EX 37253 LEICESTER REGIMENT. WIFE EDITH ELEANOR SMITH, WAKEFIELD.
Private
BORN BELFAST 1897. SON OF ELLEN JANE WARD. HE LIVED IN WAKEFIELD AND HULL. KNOWN AS 'JERRY' WATSON. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MESSRS. BLUNDELL & SPENCE LTD, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER, WHO PLAYED FOR THE WORKS TEAM, WITH 'WILF' COLLEY. JERRY WATSON WAS DESCRIBED AS "A 'CENTER THREE QUARTER' OF GR […]
