Area: Woodcock Street

BORN HULL 1898. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF ROBERT BANKS & ADA CROSS, 1 RAILWAY COTTAGE, HEDON ROAD. HIS FATHER WAS A HOUSEKEEPER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN, INCLUDING SIX BROTHERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE 17TH NFUS (RAILWAY PALS). TRANSFERRED TO THE 23RD BATTALION. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 11/02/1917, AGED 19. H […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF RICHARD THOMAS & ALICE AGNE BURNETT, 6 KATE'S TERRACE, ROSAMOND STREET. EMPLOYED AS A PRINTER'S ERRAND BOY AND THE HULL TRAWLER SUPPLY COMPANY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 25/05/1915. SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 25/04/1917, AGED 21. BURIED DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN. HIS D […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF MARY ELIZABETH FOSTER, OF 100 LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL. HE LIVED WITH GRANDMOTHER CAROLINE FOSTER, & SISTERS CAROLINE AND GEORGINA. EMPLOYED AS A SAW MILL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 2954, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 14/07/1916, AGED 22. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL […]

BORN 1866. DIED AGED 49. HIS ADDRESS, DEATH AND FUNERAL ARE REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 4TH SEPTEMBER 1915. THERE IS NO CWGC RECORD

BORN HULL 14/12/1871. BETTER KNOWN AS  "SYD" DAVIS, ON TE HULL FISH DOCK. SON OF SYDNEY DAVIS AND ELIZABETH HAMMOND. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1901. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1915. MARRIED ESTHER SARAH HODGSON IN 1892, WHO LIVED AT 4 ARTHURS TERRACE, MASSEY STREET AND 5 POPLAR GROVE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A FISHERMAN. HE WAS LOST AT SE […]

BORN HULL 1899. SECOND SON OF EDITH FLORENCE EGGLETON, 543 HESSLE ROAD AND THIS ADDRESS. ENLISTED HULL. EX 3975, EYR. TRANSFERRED TO 1/6TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 30/05/1918, AGED 19. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER EDITH. HE LEFT SISTERS, FLORENCE, EDITH AND EMILY AND OLDER BROTHER WALTER. COMMEMO […]

BORN HULL JAN 1890. THIRD SON OF JOHN FREDERICK EYRE & MARY EYRE AT THIS ADDRESS ADDRESS. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A WAREHOUSE MAN. ENLISTED HULL, ON 18/12/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WOUNDED BY GUN SHOT IN THE RIGHT ARM AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916. DISCHARGED AS UNFIT ON 05/09/1917. DIED OF WOUNDS IN HULL ON 26/08/1918, AGED 28. HIS […]

BORN HULL 1876. SON OF WILLIAM AND EMILY FACEY, AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS A BLACKSMITH. MARRIED IN 1898. HIS WIFE ELIZA DUNN AND THEIR SEVEN CHILDREN LIVED AT 2 TEEL TERRACE, WALKER STREET, 1 JOHNS TERRACE, PARROTT STREET, 19 EDGAR STREET, AND 5 PRINCESS ROAD, HULL. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 9 INCHES TALL, 166 LBS WEIGHT AND 39 INCH CHEST, AND ' […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF WILLIAM EDWARD GREENING & LOUISA GREENING AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE WAS A FISHERMAN, LIKE HIS FATHER. SERVED AS A SPAREHAND ON THE STEAM TRAWLER 'SAPHIRE'. LOST AT SEA ON 28/02/1915, AGED 27. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. The Hull steam trawler SAPPHIRE was on passage from Iceland […]

BORN HULL 1896. FOURTH SON OF ERASMUS NEILS JACOBSON (1856-1920) & ELLEN CATHERINE (KATE) JACOBSON (1858-1924). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. SON OF A DANISH DEEP SEA FISHERMAN. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A FISH WORKER. HE ENLISTED AT FLEETWOOD, LANCS. SERVED IN THE 6TH LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT. DIED IN IRAQ, ON 04/09/1916, AGED 20. HIS ARMY EFF […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOSEPH ANSON JENNISON & ELIZABETH JANE JENNISON, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS, AS A HORSE DRIVER. HE DIED OF FLU, ON 11/12/1918, AGED 25. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER WHO REMARRIED - ELIZABETH MELVIN. HE IS BURIED AT STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HA […]

BORN HULL 16/03/1882. SON OF EMILY & THE LATE AUGUSTINE JAMES KELLY, PICKERING HOMES. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH AND CHILDREN LIVED AT 8 ST GEORGES GROVE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (NAVY RECORDS ADDRESS). HE DROWNED WHILE MINESWEEPING, ON 26/08/1915, AGED 33. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE WOODCOK STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (HDM 23/09/1916). JASPER, Admi […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL ALBERT MALLORY 23963. Born June 1886 in North Burton, East Yorkshire Albert was the eldest of seven children to Edward and Jane Mallory of 82 Mill Street, Malton. The 1911 Census has him working as a Servant on a farm at Kirby Grindalythe where he appears to have been a Horseman in the stables. Albert marri […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF ALBERT EDWARD MORGAN AND MARY ANN CALVERT, 139 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A FORMER RAILWAY CLERK. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 10.5 INCHES TALL, 35 INCH CHEST, FAIR HAIR AND BLUE EYES. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 17/04/1915. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 20/05/1916.  WOUNDED BY A MOTOR ACCIDENT ON THE SOMME, ON 16/09/ […]

BORN HULL 14/01/1899. SON OF GEORGE CROWCROFT MORRILL (1877-1915) & HELENE (ELLEN) FRANCES MORRILL (1874-1924). NEPHEW OF MR & MRS MOSES, 64 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, PERCY AND FIVE SISTERS. SERVED AS A COAL TRIMMER ON THE TRAWLER 'LORD RIDLEY'. SUNK BY ENEMY MINE OFF WHITBY COAST, ON 10/05/1917, AGED 18. TEN CRE […]

BORN HULL 1893. HULL PAL. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & ANNIE E NEEDLER ABOVE. LISTED ON THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL. Hull Pals Memorial Post. SGT WILLIAM WILSON NEEDLER 11/986. Born in July 1893, William was the second of seven children and eldest son of John and Annie Needler of 163 Woodcock Street, Hessle Road, Hull. A Dock Labourer b […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF WALTER NEWBY AND SARAH ANN HUNT, OF 75 EDGAR STREET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE MARRIED, BEATRICE MARION WESTON, IN 1915. A FISHERMAN. HE SERVED AS SECOND ENGINEER, ON THE 'MAGNETA' TRAWLER. HE WAS LOST WITH HIS BROTHER, LORENZO, ON 01/02/1922, DURING THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR. THEIR YOUNGER BROTHER, ALFRED HAD DR […]

BORN HULL 1900. SON OF WALTER NEWBY AND SARAH ANN HUNT, 75 EDGAR STREET. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN, FROM A FISHING FAMILY. A FISHERMAN LIKE HIS FATHER AND BROTHERS. SERVED AS A COAL TRIMMER, ON THE MAGNETA TRAWLER. LOST WITH HIS BROTHER FRED, ON 01/02/1922, DURING THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR. THEIR YOUNGER BROTHER ALFRED HAD DROWNED ON THE TITANIA […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF JOSEPH & MARY E. RICHARDSON - 159 GLASGOW STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) & 1 ALMA AVENUE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. SERVED ON THE STEAM SHIP "TITAN". REPORTED AS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED AT SEA, 29/04/1916, AGED 17, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL 29/04/1917. HE LEFT SISTERS ANNIE, LILLY & LOUISA. NO CWGC RECORDS OF DEATH.