Area: Westmoreland Street

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF JAMES & JESSIE LOUISA (WATSON), OF  109, YORK STREET, HULL. MARRIED 1908. BEFORE ENLISTING HE HAD WORKED AT SISSONS, STONEFERRY, SINCE HE WAS 14. HE ENLISTED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND SERVED IN EGYPT AND THE DARDENELLES BEFORE ARRIVING IN FRANCE IN MARCH 1916. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 21/09/1916, AGED 28. COMMEM […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1884. SON OF JOHN W & HARRIET ELVIDGE, OF 5, HAMLYN AVENUE, HULL AND 24, CARLTON VILLAS, GROVE HILL ROAD, BEVERLEY. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. A FORMER RAILWAY LABOURER. HE JOINED THE ARMY IN 13/02/1905. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5 INCHES TALL, 126 LBS WEIGHT, 35 INCH CHEST, BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR. WAS A BUGLER […]

BORN HULL 1884. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM HALL (1857-1940) AND MARY JANE KAVANAGH (1861-1906), OF CANNON STREET, HULL (1901) AND 41 CAROLINE PLACE, CHARLES STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 24 POPLAR AVENUE, POPLAR STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN, HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. HE MARRIED ALICE SARGENT, AT ST […]

BORN HULL 1886. SCULCOATES. SON OF THE LATE FRED KIRMAN (1856-1915) & JANE ELIZABETH BOGG (1865-1903), OF HULL. MARRIED AT HULL SCULCOATES, ON 23/08/1910. HE WORKED AS A GENERAL LABOURER, LIVING AT 8, SYDEHAM TERACE, SEATON STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). HIS WIFE ALICE AMELIA KIRMAN, ALSO LIVED AT 17 COBDEN COTTAGE, WESTMORELA […]

BORN HULL 1875. SON OF JOHN & MARY KNIGHT. WIFE CHARLOTTE, REGENT STREET & 35 , WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL. HE WAS A BANDSMAN AT THE HULL ICE HOUSE. LEFT HULL SEVEN YEARS AGO FOR CANANDA. A SHIPPING PORTER. SERVED IN THE MEDICAL CORPS, WITH THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED, ON 10/07/1917, AGED 42. HIS DEATH W […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF JOHN EDWIN MACKINDER (1866-1939) & ANNIE MARY (SPAVEN) MACKINDER (1868-1929), OF 11 LABURNUM GROVE, WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. SON OF AN OIL COOPER. HE WORKED FOR MR H. JOHNSON, NATIONAL OIL WORKS, HIGH STREET, HULL, AS AN OIL MANUFACTURER LABOURER. ALSO A BANDSMAN WITH T […]

BORN HULL 03/01/1888. SON OF EDWARD & ELIZA MANN COOPLAND, OF 39WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL. (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). SISTERS FLORENCE, ELIZA, BEATRICE& ELSIE. HE HAD SERVED 13 YEARS IN THE NAVY . WAS KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND, ON 31/05/1916, AGED 28. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 15/06/1916. *

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF HENRY PATRICK (1858-1928) AND HARRIET ANN SEFTON (1857-1933), OF 2 WITHERNSEA STRRT, WILMINGTON, HULL. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. MARRIED AT HULL, ON 21/12/1907, AGED 21. HIS WIFE LILLY WINTER (1885-1965), DAUGHTERS IVY & SARAH JANE, & SON FRED, LIVED AT 2 VIRGO TERRACE, WE […]

BORN HULL 1894 SON OF MRS MARY ANN DEALTRY BLAKER (1857-1935) AND ROBERT WILLIAM ROBINSON (1854-1902), OF 19, FERN GROVE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL AND 23, WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND FIVE SISTERS. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A TIME KEEPER AT A COMPUND CAKE FACTORY. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED AS L […]

BORN HULL 1894. ONLY CHILD OF WILLIAM AND MARY ANN RYAN, OF 52, DOCK STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND LORNE TERRACE, EAST BOLDEN, DURHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN CORK IRELAND. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN GATESHEAD. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 14/08/1916, AGED 22. BURIED AT LE […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1890. SON OF JOHN & LAVINIA STRAUGHAN ABOVE. LISTED ON KINGS HALL CHURCH ROH, SYMONST ST. HULL HEROES WEB SITE.

BORN FOXHOLES, YORKSHIRE 1883. WIFE ANNIE & 2 CHILDREN, LIVED AT 48 BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL  (1911 CENSUS) AND 3 , WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL. AN OIL CAKE PRESSMAN, BEFORE THE WAR. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED AS ACTING SERGEANT, WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY WOUNDED IN BOTH EYES, AND HAD FEVER TWICE […]