BORN BECCLES, SUFFOLK, 1883. ALIAS "COPERMAN". SON OF FREDERICK COPEMAN (1847-1890) AND FRANCES ALICE LEADER (1851-1926), OF SUFFOLK AND NORFORK. A FISHERMAN. HE LIVED BRADFORD & HULL. HE HAD AN TWO BROTHERS, JESSE AND JOHN AND FIVE SISTERS. HE MARRIED SARAH MARIA JILLINGS (1883-1979) AT WANGFORD, SUFFOLK, IN 1906 AGED 27. THEIR SON, […]
2nd Lieutenant
Born Hull on the 12th November 1890, at 20 Williamson Street, East Hull. Eldest Son of John and Charlotte Harrison, of "Ainslie House", Southcoates-Lane, East Hull. Jack was the son of a boilermaker and plater. He had six sisters and grew up in a tough and austere background and soon learned to look after himself. Jack was to become on […]
Master
Born Middlesbrough 1879. MASTER MARINER. Son of Perter William and Elizabeth Hill, of Middlesbrough. Husband of Florence Moody Hill, of 184 Albert Avenue, Hull (1911 Census) and above. She later moved to Marlborough Avenue, Hornsea, with their son and daughter. SS Renfrew, built by W. Doxford & Sons, Ltd., Sunderland in 1907 and own […]
Sergeant
BORN HULL 1877. SON OF JOHN & MARTHA, OF 43 HIGH STREET, HULL. HIS WIFE LILY AND FIVE CHILDREN LIVED AT 103 , WHARNCLIFFE STREET, HULL. A REGULAR SOLDIER AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. HE HAD SERVED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT FOR 21 YEARS, INCLUDING INDIA & SOUTH AFRICA. EMPLOYED AS A CARETAKER FOR MESSRS. SHAW & SONS, MALT BARL […]
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF ROBERT HENRY & SOPHIA JONES, OF, 5, WHARNCLIFFE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). WILFRED SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRES. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 04/05/1915, AGED ONLY 17. BURIED IN BELGIUM. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30TH JUNE 1915. * HIS BROTHERS, WILL AND LE […]
BORN HULL 14/02/1892. SON OF JOSEPH MOULD (1862-1917) & ANNE ELIZA MOULD (1861-1933), 15 HAWORTH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF 15 CHILDREN. HUSBAND OF MARTHA BOYDON (Pattie) (1888-1963), AND DAUGHTER ENA MOULD (1915-1978) LIVED AT 78 WHARNCLIFFE STREET, CHANTERLANDS AVENUE, HULL. A FORMER BLUNDELL'S PAINT WORKER. FRED ENLIST […]
