Area: York, North Yorkshire

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF WILLIAM & CHRISTINA. RESIDED & ENLISTED MORPETH, NORTHUMBERLAND, BROTHER JOHN & 4 SISTERS.

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF MR WT CLARK AND ELIZABETH CLARK, OF 11 NEVILLE STREET, HAXLEY ROAD, YORK. (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT YORK. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 17/04/1915.  SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY (WEST RIDING HEAVY BATTERY. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 23/08/1916, AGED 25. BURIED AT AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTE […]

BORN ALNWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND, 1897. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM CONING (1862-1912) & (MARTHA) KATE TIPTON (1865-1922), OF 18 WILLIS STREET, YORK. BROTHER TO SISTERS, HYLDA, AND LUCY AND BROTHER ATHOLE. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 1598, 3RD ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS (RAMC). (SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS STATE THAT HE WAS BORN IN HULL). HE ARR […]

BORN ROTHERHAM 1888. SON OF JOHN & ESTHER COX-HEAP. WORKED AS A JOINER  IN YORK (1811 CENSUS). MARRIED AT YORK IN 1914. HIS WIFE ANNIE LORD.  AND DAUGHTER BEATRICE, LIVED AT 22 BRUNSWICK STREET, YORK,. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED UNDER THE SURNAME "HEAP". FORMERLY, PRIVATE, IN THE 3RD EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MILI […]

BORN 1895. SON OF ROBERT AND SARA ANN JOSH, YORK. HE WAS AFIREMAN AND DRIVER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS AND WAS WELL KNOWN IN HULL THROUGH HIS WORK ON THE TRAINS. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 07/09/1915, AGED 20. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 4TH OCTOBER 1915. *

BORN HULL 1897. LIVED YORK. ENLISTED SCARBOROUGH. SON OF WILLIAM & ROSALIND MARSHALL, OF MATHEW STREET, HULL & THEN 45 MORGATE, ACOMB ROAD, YORK. RONALD STUDIED AT THE BOULEVARD SECONDARY SCHOOL. HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING SCHOLAR, WINNING FOUR SCHOLARSHIPS. HE MOVED TO YORK IN 1912 TO STUDY AT ARCHBISHOP HOLGATE SCHOOL AND WAS AWARDE […]

BORN HULL 12/05/1889. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE PARKER (1868-1944) AND MINNIE DAY (1870-1922), OF 35, HALFIELD ROAD, YORK. LIVED IN YORK. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A CHOCHOLATE MOULDER. HE MARRIED MAY BUCKLEY, AT YORK, ON 28/10/1911. THEY LIVED AT 27, TABER STREET, HALLFIELD ROAD, YORK (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HA […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE AMOS POLLARD 11/349. Born in Walkden, Lancashire in 1893, Amos was the eldest of three sons to Oliver and Mary Pollard of 3 Scaife Street, York. A Grocer's Apprentice prior to the war, Amos enlisted in Hull in September 1914, queuing in the long, uneven lines of late summer with men and boys anxious to ge […]

BORN YORK 1892. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF WILLIAM & SARAH A. SEMPERS, OF 33 ALNE TERRACE, YORK. WORKED AS A GENERAL WAREHOUSEMAN (1911 CENSUS). SERVED AS A GUNNER, WITH THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. LISTED AS DIED OF WOUNDS - HULL DAILY MAIL 18/10/1917, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ELIZABETH LEE, WHO HE MARRIED IN HULL, IN 1915.

BORN DARLINGTON 1890. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JERIMIAH & FANNY TOMLINSON. REPORTED AS A HULL CASUALTY - HDM 1/6/17. Husband of Ada Annie Tomlinson, of 35, Caroline Street, Bishopthorpe Road., York.

BORN SCARBOROUGH 23/06/1886. YOUNGEST SON OF CAPTAIN, EDWYN M. WALKER , 15TH HUSSARS, (1838-1919) & ELIZABETH BETHELL (1851-1915), OF MILL HOUSE, YORK. HE WAS EDUCATED AT LEEDS UNIVERSITY AND QUALIFIED AS AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER IN 1911. A KEEN CRICKETER HE PLAYED FOR THE WELLINGTON SCHOLL XI. HE WORKED IN LEEDS AND THE NORTH EAST […]

BORN HULL 1893. BAPTISED COTTINGHAM, ON 27/12/1893. SON OF LORENZO WILLIAMSON AND EDITH HORSAMAN, OF ACOMB, YORK (CWGC ADDRESS).  WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS FOR EIGHT AND HALF YEARS. (NER MAGAZINE, JULY 1918, PAGE 131) HE ENLISTED AT YORK. SERVED IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. TWICE WOUNDED. HE DIED OF GAS WOUNDS, ON 08/05/1918, A […]