Area: Withernsea Street

BORN SOUTH CAVE, 1892. SON OF HANNAH & THE LATE RICHARD BERRY, of 8 INDUSTRIAL TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL  & 11 SOMERSET AVENUE, WITHERNSEA STREET, WILMINGTON, HULL. BEFORE ENLISTING HE WORKED FOR SANDERSON'S PAINT WORKS. ALFRED IS RECORDED ON THE WILMINGTON ROH, SUTTON AND THE BEAN STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 11 Octo […]

BORN 1888. AKA HENRY. SON OF JOHN & ELIZABETH DODSLEY, OF THE ABOVE ADDRESS. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. A REGULAR SOLDIER WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS AT THE 18TH FIELD AMBULANCE, ON 15/05/1915, AGED 28. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFTTO HIS MOTHER, ELIZABETH. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE WILMINGTON MEMORIAL, SUTTON, WIT […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1895. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF JOHN BRYAN EDMOND (1859-1946) & SARAH FENWICK (1873-1933), OF 53, ST ANDREWS STREET, BEVERLEY (1911 CENSUS); 12, DEVON AVENUE, ST PAUL STREET, HULL; 27, FINSBURY GROVE, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL AND  9, EARLES ROW, WITHERNSEA STREET, WILMINGTON, HULL (CWGC & WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). SON OF A TAN […]

BORN HULL 1897. LIVED AT  6 BEECH GROVE, WITHERNSEA STREET, HULL, AND WITH HIS BROTHER, ARTHUR HARDEY, AT 151 BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. HIS GRANDMOTHER, MARGARET HARDEY, LIVED AT 5, DALTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A SAW MILL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 241883, 5TH BORDER REGIMENT. KILLED IN […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF SARAH JANE HENDERSON & IN LAWS ETHEL STANIFORD, OF 1 PORTLAND AVENUE, WITHERNSEA STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). OIL MILLER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 11080, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 1ST JULY 1916, AGED 24. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HE WAS REPORTED WOUNDED BY […]

BORN HULL 1879. SON OF WILLIAM & ANNIE JEWITT - 19 NEW PARADE. WIFE MARY ELIZABETH & 6 KIDS ABOVE 1911. ON WILMINGTON ROH. OIL MILLER

BORN HULL 17/2 1890. SON OF THE LATE THOMAS & MRS RACHAEL LANGTHORP, OF 21 WITHERNSEA STREET. HE LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER BEFORE JOINING THE NAVY. THOMAS SERVED AS A ROYAL NAVY STOKER. WAS LOST AT SEA, ON 17/03/1917, AGED 26. A WIDOWED MOTHER AND SEVERAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS WERE LEFT TO MOURN HIS LOSS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN TH […]

BORN HULL 11/10/1897. SON OF EDMUND & ANNIE NORTH, OF 8 ROCHFORD AVENUE, BEDFORD STREET, WILMINGTON. EDUCATED AT CHAPMAN STREET COUNTY SCHOOL. ENLISTED IN THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT TERRITORIALS, ON 30/08/1914. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST BATTALION, ON 01/01/1915. HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE HAND IN AUGUST 1915 AND SPENT SOME TIME IN A LON […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL THOMAS OVERTON 11/787. Born 1896, the second of five children to William and Harriet Overton of 22 Withernsea Street, Hull. A Grocer's Assistant by trade, he dropped everything when King and Country called no doubt puffed-up with patriotism and desperate for some adventure and glory. He queued at City Hall […]

BORN WITHERNSEA 1897. ENLISTED HULL. LIVED ABOVE 1911 CENSUS. OIL MILLER. DIED OF WOUNDS. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE HAROLD POTTER 14/87. A famous name in another time, Harold was born in Withernsea in 1897, the third of four sons to William and Lucy Potter. Both parents died before Harold was 14 and he was left in the care of a re […]

BORN LONDON 1869. WIFE LOUISA (BLAKE) ABOVE. SON OF THE LATE SAMUEL & ELIZABETH SANDERSON, PORTLAND AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET. Lost in the North Sea, on the Hull steam trawler CORNELIAN (H506) Sank with all hands, on 14th January 1916. CREW LOST ON CORNELIAN (H506), Commemorated on the Tower Hill, Naval Memorial, London ADDY, Thomas ( […]