BORN HULL 1899. SON OF HASTINGS AND FANNY SHIRTLIFF. BROTHER HAROLD SHIRTLIFF, RGA LIVED AT SAME ADDRESS. (1918 ABSENT VOTERS). Billy was killed in the Battle of Lys near the Pont de Nieppe. He is commemorated on the PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL at Hainaut, Belgium. This commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of the UK and South African forces […]
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1 VICTORIA PLACE, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
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Died on
17/05/1917
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36
BORN HULL 1881. WIFE ANNIE ELIZABETH STEPHENSON LIVED ABOVE. SON OF ROBERT & KATE STEPHENSON. ON TRINITY NAVAL MEMORIAL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. SS 'CITO': Wilsons & North Eastern Railway Shipping Co; 1899; Earle´s Co.; 819 tons; 219.1x30.1x16.5; 144 nhp; 9.5 knots; triple expansion engines. The steamship Cito was intercepted by […]
