Area: Walker Street

BORN OSLO, NORWAY, 1874. SON OF OTTO ROJAHN. HUSBAND OF KATE ROJAHN, AT  155 WALKER STREET, HULL. (HULL MERCHANT NAVY ADDRESS). COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK.. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN ROJAHN, 12TH EYR WAS KILLED ON 13/11/1916, AGED 44. On October 20th, 1917, the British steamer SS Colorado, on a voyage fro […]

BORN HULL 1900. SON OF THOMAS & HANNAH SELLER, OF 26 WALKER STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).  SERVED WITH THE 2ND SHERWOOD FORESTERS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 18/09/1918, AGED 19. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HULL GARDENER SOCIETY MEMORIAL, HULL MINSTER. BURIED AT TREFCON BRITISH CEMETERY, CAULAINCOURT, AISNE, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION RE […]

Born Masbrough, Rotherham 08/021885. Son of William Shirtcliffe, of 33, Cavendish Road., Holmes, Rotherham; Husband of Edith Shirtcliffe, of 52, Edge Road., Thornhill Edge, Dewsbury, Yorks. He had enlisted in the Royal Navy on 19/04/1900. He worked as a sailor and as a blast furnaceman. He enlisted in the Household cavalry at West Melt […]

BORN MILE END, EAST LONDON 1877. SON OF CAROLINE & THE LATE BARNETT SILVERSTONE, AT 121 WALKER STREET, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HIS PARENTS WERE FROM WARSAW, POLAND. HIS FATHER WAS A HIGH CLASS TAILOR. HARRY LIVED IN AT 465 HIGH ROAD LEYTON, ESSEX (PROBATE ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A LONDON BUS CONDUCTOR. HE ENLISTED IN STRATFORD, LON […]

BORN HULL OCT 1876. SON OF CAROLINE & THE LATE BARNETT SILVERSTONE, AT THIS ADDRESS. HE LIVED IN AT 195 HANBURY STREET, STEPNEY, EAST LONDON. WORKED AS A TAILOR. HE ENLISTED AT WHITEHALL. SERVED WITH THE "LONDON ARTISTS" BATTALION, AS PRIVATE, 6508, 1ST LONDON REGIMENT (ROYAL FUSILIERS). KILLED IN ACTION, AT THE SOMME, ON 07/10/1918, […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF THOMAS EDGAR & JANE ANN SIMONS - 3 DUKE TERRACE, MARMADUKE STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND 8 WILFRED'S TERRACE, WESTBOURNE STREET, HULL. A FORMER CRANE DRIVER. HE ENLISTED AT THE START OF THE WAR AND HAD ALREADY BEEN WOUNDED TWICE, THE LAST TIME IN JULY AT THE SOMME. HE HAD ONLY RETURNED FOR 8 WEEKS WHEN HE WAS WO […]

BORN HULL 29/03/1898. SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM SMITH & KATE PINDER, AT THIS 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS. HE WAS BORN AT 4 ZIONS PLACE, PORTER STREET, HULL. ENLISTED HULL. COMMISSIONED. KILLED IN ACTION ON 22/03/1918, AGED 20. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, HAINAUT, BELGIUM.

BORN HULL 1903. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY & EDITH SMITH, OF 13 WALKER STREET, HULL. DROWNED WHEN HIS SCHOONER WASLOST AT SEA, AGED 15. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM ON 07/12/1918. NO CWGC RECORDS. On November 15th, 1918, the British wooden schooner GLENDALOUGH, on voyage from Hull & Yarmouth to Boulogne with a cargo of coal, was […]

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF JOSEPH STELL (1861-1948) & MARY ANN COULTAS (1862-1939), OF 10 WASSAND STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 84 WALKER STRETT, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A TAILOR. HE HAD ONE BROTHERS, JOHN WILLIAM AND ONE SISTER. WORKED AS A DRAPER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 9.5INCHES TALL, 145 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST, BLUE EYES […]

BORN HULL 31/10/1876. SON OF GEORGE AND SARAH ANN STRIDE. A SEAMAN, WITH HIS BROTHERS, WALTER AND THOMAS. HE MARRIED IN 1901. HIS WIFE, SARAH ANN POTTER (1881-1953), LIVED AT 2 HOPE TERRACE, WALKER STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).  HE HAD 5 CHILDREN. SERVED ON THE TRAWLER, "SPEETON". LOST AT SEA, ON 31/12/1915, AGED 39. TWO DAUGHTERS, IVY AN […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF MRS ANN TURNER, OF 4 VILLA TERRACE, WALKER STREET, HULL (PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 13TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 22/09/1916, AGED 27. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.

BORN HULL 12/06/1888. SON OF FRED WARD AND MARY WELSH (1862-1923). HE HAD THREE OLDER SISTERS, JANE, FLORENCE AND GERTRUDE. FRED WAS 5 FOOT 3 INCHES TALL AND KNOWN AS "LITTLE FREDDIE". HE WORKED AS A SHIP'S STEWARD. HIS WIFE ALICE & TWO DAUGHTERS JESSIE AND WINIFRED WAUD LIVED AT THIS ARMY ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS ON 16/ […]

BORN LONDON 04/12/1896. STRAND. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL'S WALKER STREET MEMORIAL. HIS SISTER JANE LIVED IN FLEET STREET, HOLBORN, LONDON. COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL On 22 March 1918, the British sloop HMS Gaillardia, built by Blyth Shipbuilding in 1917, struck a British laid mine in the Northern Barrage, Pentland […]

BORN HULL 1884. SON OF HENRY & ANNIE WHITFIELD. STEVEDORE LABOURER. BOARDED AT 155 WALKER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 10/07/1901, AGED 18. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 8 INCHES TALL, 125 LBS WEIGHT 32.5 INCH CHEST, BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR. EX 8083, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, SOLDIER BEFORE THE WAR. SERVED FOR 7 YEARS IN THE REGU […]

BORN HULL 24/5/1888. KILLED IN ACTION. SON OF CHARLES ROBERT & JULIA WILSON ABOVE ADDRESS. HE RESIDED IN EAST HULL BEFORE JOINING THE MANCHESTER POLICE FORCE. HE ENLISTED IN JANUARY 1915 AND HAD SERVED IN FRANCE FOR ELEVEN MONTHS. HE WAS REPORTED AS KILLED IN ACTION. HE LEFT ARMY EFFECTS TO BROTHERS & SISTERS. LISTED AS A HULL CA […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL WALTER WILSON 12/189. Born in 1887, Walter was one of seven children to William Wilson (1843-1889) and Jane Ann Wilson, of 6 Waltham Terrace, Walker Street, Hull (War Pension address). He had three brothers and three sisters. A Blacksmith's Striker by trade. Described as 5 foot, 6 inches tall, 137 lbs wei […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & JUDITH BURN WRIGHT, OF 48 GREAT THORNTON STREET, HULL AND 71 WALKER STREET, HULL. SON OF A WHITE SMITH AND LOCKSMITH. THE FOURTH OF SIX CHILDREN. HE  HAD ONE BROTHER, GEORGE AND THREE SISTERS, EDITH, MARY AND JUDITH. HE WORKED AS A WHITESMITH. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED A SAPPER, IN THE 208TH EAST RI […]