Area: Wellington Street, Humber Dock

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF GEORGE WINDLE BARTON (1870-1905) & ADA ANN MOWER (1875-1926). HIS FATHER DIED IN 1905 AND HIS MOTHER RE-MARRIED. HE LIVED WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER, MARY ANN MOWER (1850-1941), AT 4, WELLINGTON MART, HUMBER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON THE FIRST DAY THAT WAR WAS DECLARED, AGED ONLY […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF CHARLES HENRY & HARRIET BLYTH, AT 38, WELLINGTON LANE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN GOOLE. SERVED AS A LANCE CORPORAL, IN THE 7TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 22/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, AT THE SOMME, ON 01/09/1916, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER, REBE […]

BORN HULL 1882. SON OF WILLIAM COOK AND JANE WESTBROOK. A RAILWAY WAGON EXAMINER.HIS WIFE ALICE (DUDDING) & THREE DAUGHTERS LIVED AT 11 HILLS TERRACE. WEST PARADE (1911 CENSUS), AND THIS ADDRESS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN HULL DAILY MAIL.   The British cargo ship Harrogate SS foundered 50 miles off the coast of Norway on Febru […]

BORN SOUTH STREET, COTTINGHAM, 28/09/1886. SON OF WILLIAM LONGBONE (1864-1933) & MARTHA TASKER (1864-1946) OF 264 SPRING BANK HULL. HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. WORKED AS A FARM LABOURER AND DOCK CARTER. ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 28/08/1914, AGED 28. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 37-39 INCH CHEST, 132 LBS WEIGHT, BLUE EYES, […]

BORN HULL 1899. FOURTH SON OF JOHN WILLIAM WOODMANSEY (1860-1937) & ELIZABETH WOODMANSEY (1866-1953), OF 6, WELLINGTON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS.) THE FIFTH OF SIX CHILDREN. AT THE AGE OF TWELVE, HE WON A SCHOLARSHIP FROM SALTHOUSE LAND SCHOOL TO ATTEND HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LEICESTER STREET, FOR FOUR YEARS. HE WORKED IN THE OFFI […]