2nd Engineer
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHNATHAN & ISABELLA ABBOTT, OF 47 , WITTY STREET, HULL. HE ALSO LIVED AT 32, CLYDE STREET IN 1911 & 42. (NAVAL RECORDS). HE WORKED AS A SHIP'S FIREMAN AND WAS UNMARRIED. HE WAS LOST AT SEA ON 21/5/1915,AGED 22. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES 19/06/1915. Sabrina (H 346) FV was a British registere […]
Stoker 1st Class
BORN HULL 13/021896. SON OF LOUIS & EMMA ABOVE. LOUIS SERVED ON HMS 'WALLINGTON'. STOKER FIRST CLASS. LOST AT SEA 31/05/1916 DURING THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND, AGED 20. THIS WAS HIS ROYAL NAVY ADDRESS. COMMEMORATED ON THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, HAMPSHIRE, UK HIS DEATH AT THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND, WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 2 […]
BORN GASCOIGNE, YORKSHIRE 1896. SON OF WILLIAM & ANN MARIA BATTY, 77 BRIGHTON STREET (1911) AND 67 MANCHESTER STREET (1915). HIS BROTHER WILFRED SERVED IN FRANCE AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. ENLISTED HULL. SENT TO FRANCE ON 26/05/1916. WOUNDED ON 23/07/1916. KILLED IN ACTION ON 13/11/1916. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM ON 3/03/1917, 4/0 […]
Corporal
BORN BRADWELL ON SEA, ESSEX 1894. SON OF CHARLES & AMELIA BENNETT, OF 75 WITTY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS WORKING AS A BLACKSMITH IN ALDBOROUGH. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 26/03/1918, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER AMELIA. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 16/5/18. HIS NAME […]
BORN HULL 1899. SON OF ROSE HANNAH MAUD SWINN & THE LATE JOHN WILLIAM GOODWILL, ABOVE ADDRESS AND GRIMSBY. HIS AUNT LIVED AT 55 WITTY STREET. ENLISTED GRIMSBY. KILLED IN ACTION 22/03/1916, AGED 16.
Trimmer
BORN HULL 18/06/1882. SON OF WILLIAM JOSEPHUS MATSON (1851-1898) AND JANE CARTER (1851-1921), OF 6 CYDE TERRACE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). MARRIED ON 09/04/1905, HUSBAND OF ALICE GERTRUDE LEWIS (1888-1930). THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN. A GENERAL LABOURER. HE SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY, AS TRIMMER, ON THE STEAM TRAWLER, "WINDWARD […]
BORN FLAMBOROUGH 1895. SON OF THOMAS OGLE (1866-1927) & HANNAH CHADWICK (1864-1936). ONE OF SIX CHILDREN AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. EMPLOYED AS A COPPERSMITH (1911 CENSUS) AND AS A CHAIN HORSE LAD FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS, HE JOINED THE COMPANY IN JANUARY 1914. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 9 INCHES TALL, 35 INCH CHEST. ENLISTED IN JANUARY 1 […]
Acting Sergeant
BORN HULL 1893. HIS REAL NAME WAS "CHARLES, JAMES". SON OF CHARLES JAMES & MARY ANN JAMES, OF 81 & 89 ST PAUL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BROTHERS, WILLIAM & GEORGE. SISTERS, CECILIA, HARRIET AND GERTRUDE. HE WAS A FARM LABOURER, USED TO HORSES. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 136 LBS WEIGHT, 37-39 INCH CHEST, […]
BORN HULL 26/12/1892. ELDEST SON OF RUTH ESTER SMITH ABOVE ADDRESS 1911 CENSUS. WIDOW SUSANNAH POOLE LIVED 30 RIBY STREET, GRIMSBY. ENGINE CLEANER.
BORN HULL 1890. SON OF ELLEN BENNETT THOMPSON & STEP FATHER, GEORGE MARTIN BENNETT, OF 58 WITTY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A FORMER FISHERMAN. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, IN APRIL 1915. SERVED AS A GUNNER, IN THE295TH ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. PREVIOUSLY WOUNDED. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 18/02/1918, AGE 28. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HU […]
Chief Engineer
BORN HULL 12/8/1857. SON OF JOHN HENRY WATSON AND MARY ANN WATSON. MARRIED IN HULL, 07/08/1878. HUSBAND OF MARY ELIIZABETH LILL, AT 38 WITTY STREET, HULL. A MARINE ENGINEER. LOST AT SEA, ON 21/03/1917, AGED 57. Expedient, built by Mackie & Thomson, Govan in 1893 and owned at the time of her loss by Great Northern Steamship Fishing C […]
BORN HULL 1877. A FISHERMAN BEFORE THE WAR. MARRIED AT HULL IN 1896. HUSBAND OF EDITH SIPLING (1877-1913), OF 26 WITTY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SKIPPER OF THE TRAWLER "COMMANDER FULLERTON" LOST AT SEA ON 12/12/1917, AGED 40. HE LEFT £103 IN HIS WILL TO HIS DAUGHTER, TERCEIRA EMMA MARIE WHELAN. (CWGC RECORDS RECORD HIS SURNAME AS "WHE […]
