BORN HULL 1889. SON OF HARRY & CAROLINE ALLVIN ABOVE. FIANCEE MARY COWLAM. SON OF A HAIRDRESSER. HE WORKED AS A HAIRDRESSER'S ASSISTANT. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED IN THE 1ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/04/1918, AGED 29. BURIED AT BELGIUM BATTERY CORNER, YPRES. COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL. HIS A […]
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BORN HULL 1896. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JAMES & USULA BETTS. Pocklington Post 8/11/2012: James Frederick Betts, of Hedon Road, Hull, served with the 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. He was reported wounded and missing in March 1918 and this prompted his sister Sarah to write to one of his comrades to try and establish his fate. She […]
BORN HULL 1899. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF SAMUEL & AMY CAMMIDGE. OF 29 CHURCHILL STREET (1901 CENSUS) & THIS ADDRESS, HEDON ROAD, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 22ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/04/1918, AGED 19. UNMARRIED. HE LEFT BROTHERS, WALTER & SAM. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE ONLY THREE WEEKS BEFORE […]
BORN PATRINGTON 1882. SON OF SMITH GRANGE (1853-1923) & LYDIA WHITELEY GRANGE (1855-1949), OF 19, CHURCHILL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BOTH PARENTS WERE BORN IN PATRINGTON. SON OF A RAILWAY LABOURER. HE WORKED AS A GROCER'S ASSISTANT, LIVING AT 19, CHURCHILL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) HE SERVED WITH THE 1/5TH & 1/6TH NO […]
BORN GRIMSBY 1900. SON OF ELIZA EMMA WRIGHT & THE LATE JOHN MOORE, OF 4 MENTONE AVENUE, ARUNDEL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 1 ALEXANDER TERRACE, WYKE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB'S ROLL OF HONOUR. On the 12/01/1918 the WHORLTON was on passage from Dunkirk to Southa […]
BORN PORTSLAD, SUSSEX 1889. SON OF WILLIAM MORGAN (1852-1927) & AMELIA BASHFORD (1851-1904), OF 8, LORNE TERRACE, WYKE STREET, HULL. MARRIED MINNIE CHRISTIE (1890-1966), AT HULL, IN 1913. HUSBAND OF MINNIE MORGAN OF 19, PENNINGTON STREET, DANSOM LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, MARY AMELIA, BORN ON 15/01/1914 […]
BORN HULL 26/03/1889. SISTER AMY CARRINGTON WAS NEXT OF KIN AND LIVED AT 3 CROWLE AVENUE, WYKE STREET, HULL- NAVY RECORDS. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, KENT, UK. St. Ives, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Ltd., Beverley in 1909 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 32 […]
BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOHN HENRY TAYLOR & SARAH ELIZA LEADLEY (1859-1940), OF CHURCH LANE, BEVERLEY, 4 LORNE TERRACE, WYKE STREET, HULL AND 6, FERNDALE TERRACE, ST MARK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF SHIP FIREMAN. HE WORKED AS A PAPER HANGER (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 21848, EAST YORKSHIRE REGI […]
BORN HULL 1895. SON OF JOHN PHILIP WITHERS & CLEMENTIA HARROW WITHERS, OF 8 , WYKE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). DOCK TROLLEY DRIVER. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED WITH THE 3RD COLDSTREAM GUARDS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 20/05/1915, AT RUE DE L'EPINETTE, AGED 20. BURIED: Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, Departement du Pas-de-C […]
