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 AND 11 POPLAR GROVE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). 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 […]

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, 1/4TH & 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 14/07/1916, AGED 22. HIS DEATH WAS RE […]

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 THE HULL FISH DOCK. SON OF SYDNEY DAVIS AND ELIZABETH HAMMOND. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1901. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1915. HE 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 LOS […]

BORN HULL 30/06/1898. SECOND SON OF PERCY JAMES EGGLETON (1873-1957) AND EDITH FLORENCE EGGLETON (1875-1951, OF 543, HESSLE ROAD (DENTAL SURGERY) AND 171, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS MOTHER WORKED IN A LAUNDRY HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY 3975, EAST YORKS REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO 1/6TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED […]

BORN HULL JAN 1890. THIRD SON OF JOHN FREDERICK EYRE (1862-1929) & MARY WARDELL EYRE (1864- ), AT 17, BENVISTAS AVENUE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A HOUSE PAINTER. HE WAS ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE WORKED AS A STOKER AND WAREHOUSE LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 3.5 INCHES […]

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), OF 10, KEW ROW, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL AND 144, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) . ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. SON OF A DANISH DEEP SEA FISHERMAN. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A FISH WORKER. HE ENLISTED AT FLEETWOOD, LANCS. SER […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOSEPH ANSON JENNISON (1859-1909) & ELIZABETH JANE CANE (1872-1937), AT 3, BENVISTAS AVENUE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A BRICKLAYER'S LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. HE WAS IN A REFORMATORY SCHOOL, AT WELBURN, YORKSHIRE (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE RO […]

BORN HULL 16/03/1882. SON OF EMILY & THE LATE AUGUSTINE JAMES KELLY, OF 55, GREAT UNION STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS), 8 BRIGHT TERACE, BRIGHT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND PICKERING HOMES, HULL. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH AND CHILDREN LIVED AT 8, ST GEORGES GROVE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (NAVY RECORDS ADDRESS). HE DROWNED WHILE MINESW […]

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, OF, 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 […]

BORN HULL 14/01/1899. SON OF GEORGE CROWCROFT MORRILL (1877-1915) & HELENE (ELLEN) FRANCES MORRILL (1874-1924), OF, 4, BENVISTAS AVENUE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. NEPHEW OF MR & MRS MOSES, 64 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, PERCY AND FIVE SISTERS. HIS FATHER HAD DIED ON 27/10/1916, AGED 39. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL R […]

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 William and Annie Elizabeth Needler of 5, Field Street, Holderness Road an […]

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 ELIZABETH RICHARDSON OF 159, GLASGOW STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) & 1 ALMA AVENUE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCKSIDE LABOURER. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS AND ONE ELDER BROTHER, JOSEPH, WHO WAS A FISHERMAN. ARTHUR SERVED ON THE STEAM SHIP "TITAN". DIED OF A FRACTURED SKULL. REPORTED AS ACCIDENTA […]