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 & LYDIA. BROTHER JACK IN FRANCE, SISTER ANNIE & BROTHER IN LAW ARTHUR ROWSON.
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 SUSSEX 1889. SON OF WILL & AMELIA. NB: WILLIAM A - 73 WALKER ST; GEORGE, 3RD EYR- 1 BEADLE TER, JANE ST; 259 HESSLE ROAD; REDBOURNE ST. GARDNER.
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 AND 4 LORNE TERRACE, WYKE STREET, HULL.SON OF SHIP FIREMAN. HE WORKED AS A PAPER HANGER (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 21848, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, […]
BORN HULL 1895. SON OF JOHN PHILIP WITHERS & CLEMENTIA HARROW WITHERS ABOVE. DOCK TROLLEY DRIVER. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 20/05/1915, AT RUE DE L'EPINETTE, AGED 20. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 19/06/1915. * HE IS ALSO LISTED IN THE DE RUGV […]
