Area: Woodcock Street

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF CHRISTOPHER SUMMERS ROBINSON & ANNIE GREAVES, OF 16, BENVISTAS AVENUE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX. 23659, EYR. TRANSFERRED TO THE 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 26/11/1916, AGED 28. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, CHRISTOPHER. HIS MOTHER WAS AWARDE […]

BORN HULL 1889. ST ANDREWS. SON OF GEORGE & MARY ROLLINSON ABOVE. FISH DOCK WORKER. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 27. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, ON THE SOMME

BORN HULL 14/11/1886. SECOND SON OF LATE JOSEPH ALLENBY & ELIZABETH ALLISON SAVERTON. A FISH WORKER. DESCRIBED AS STANDING 6 FOOT 2 INCHES TALL, 168 LBS, 36 INCCH CHEST, WITH TATTOOS ON BOTH ARMS. ENLISTED HULL, ON 11/12/1915. ARRIVED FRANCE 21/07/1916.UNMARRIED. HE LEFT FOUR BROTHERS HERBERT, HENRY, ARTHUR AND JOSEPH,AND A SISTER LILLY. […]

BORN HULL 14/01/1871. ONLY SON OF THOMAS SAYERS AND MARTHA KITCHIN. HE MARRIED KATE BURNHAM AT SCULCOATES, HULL IN 1899. SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS (DSC). WAS SKIPPER OF THE TRAWLER 'GAMBRI', WHICH STRUCK A MINE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, ON THE 18/01/1918, WITH THE LOSS OF 21 […]

BORN HULL 18/07/1894. SON OF JOHN SIMPSON & DIANA DAVIS, OF  71, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (CWGC & NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). A PLUMBER BY TRADE. JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY. LOST AT SEA ON 15/07/1917, AGED 24. UNMARRIED. HE LEFT A YOUNGER SISTER, MARION AND STEP SIBLINGS, JOE AND LILLIAN DAVIS. HMS Redbreast, was a passenger/cargo ship requ […]

BORN HULL 1889. ONLY CHILD OF ALICE & THOMAS SKINNER. A WATER FILTER INSPECTOR. HE WAS MARRIED TO ANNIE WHO ALSO LIVED AT 62 WOODCOCK STREET. THEY HAD NO CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON THE 13/12/1915. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 6TH JUNE 1918, AGED 29. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE RAMC MEMORIAL, WENLOCK BARRACKS, HULL. THIS WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CHARLES SMITH, 12/1445. Born Hull, 1891. Husband to Beatrice Smith of 183 Woodcock Street in Hull (War Pension address). Charles was one of the original Pals enlisting at Hull City Hall on 4th March 1915, as part of the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. Charles trained throughout 1915 and served fir […]

BORN HULL 01/06/1887. SAMUEL HENRY SMITH & EMILY BAXTER, HULL. MARRIED WILHELMINA MASSON, WITH TWO CHILDREN, JAMES ROBERT SMITH AND WILHELMINA SMITH. THEY LIVED AT 156, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL & THEN IN ABERDEEN. EMPLOYED AS A DECKHAND. HE DIED OF FLU ON 19/11/1918, AGED 31. HE LEFT A BROTHER WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, AND SISTER FLORE […]

BORN HULL 1887. SECOND SON OF THE LATE JOHN & ALICE SPAFFORD - 26 SALTBURN STREET, HULL. A BUTCHER SHOP ASSISTANT. MARRIED IN 1914. HIS WIFE EVA COCKBURN & SON WALLY, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS (1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS). ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION. ON 13/04/1918, AGED 31. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH ROH, WOODCOCK […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF THOMAS AND ANNIE SPENCER AT THIS HULL ADDRESS. BOARDED AT 99 ETON STREET IN 1911. A GROCER'S ASSISTANT. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH 14TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 29/09/1918, AGED 31. HE IS BURIED ON THE SOMME. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, EDITH.

BORN HULL 16/06/1887. SON OF ARABELLA SELLERS & THE LATE JOSEPH ALFRED WALKER(DIED 1896). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN AT THIS ADDRESS. THEY MOVED TO CLEETHORPES ROAD, GRIMSBY. SERVED AS DECKHAND, ON THE PADDLE MINESWEEPER, 'BRIGHTON QUEEN'. LOST AT SEA ON 06/10/1915, AGED 27, WHEN THE SHIP WAS MINED OFF NIEUPORT. COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM […]

BORN FOLKESTONE 20/11/1884. SON OF JOHN HILIER WARMAN & ESTER STANDING. A SHIPS CARPENTER. SERVED AS A DECK HAND ON THE NAVAL TRAWLER 'MARION' LOST AT SEA ON 23/02/1918, AGED 33, WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK A MINE OFF MALTA. SIX CREW WERE LOST. HIS SISTER ESTHER CALEY LIVED AT THIS CWGC NAVAL ADDRESS. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN WELTON (1857-1941) & ALICE BLANCHARD, OF, 163, WOODCOCK STREET (1911 CENSUS & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE WAS SON OF A RAILWAY ENGINE DRIVER. EMPLOYED AS A 'CORN MAN' AND FARM WORKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 2ND DECEMBER 1917, AGED 26. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WER […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN THOMAS & MARY (KING) WHEELER, OF 4 KATES TERRACE, ROSAMOND STREET, IN (1911 CENSUS) AND 6 WEST PARADE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. (CWGC ADDRESS).  HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER, HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO GALLIPOLI WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 04/12/1915. DIED […]

BORN HULL 1890. YOUNGEST SON OF FRANK WHITTON (1857-1932) & ANNIE BARBER (1857-1935), AT 2, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL, 98, DIVISON ROAD, HULL AND 8, CAMPBELL TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. A FISH PACKER, AT HULL DOCKS. HE WAS A MANAGER OF A WHOLESALE FISH BUSINESS, IN SWANSEA. […]

BORN HULL 05/04/1871. SON OF JOHN HENDICK WILLIAMSON, A WHEELWRIGHT AND MOTHER SARAH, AT THIS ADDRESS. EDUCATED IN HULL. WORKED AS A TRAWLER ENGINEER. MARRIED 08/12/1893. HIS WIFE ANNIE E. NEADLEY, LIVED AT 146 , WOODCOCK STREET, HULL & 95 EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 26/05/1915. POSTED TO MINESWEEPERS […]