PRIVATE, JOHN (JACKIE) SMITH, 10TH KOYLI. A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER AND PROLIFIC GOAL SCORER, FOR NINE CLUBS, BETWEEN 1903-1914. HE SIGNED FOR HULL CITY FOOTBALL CLUB, IN JUNE 1905, AS A TEENAGER. PLAYED AS RIGHT BACK AND CENTRE FORWARD AND SCORED 98 GOALS IN 156 APPEARANCES, FOR HULL CITY, BETWEEN 1905-1910. HE SCORED A CLUB RECORD OF 31 GOALS IN 37 GAMES IN 1907-08. HIS 32 GOALS IN 34 MATCHES (INCLUDING FOUR HATRICKS) IN 1909-1910, MADE HIM THE TOP GOAL SCORER IN EUROPE THAT SEASON. HULL CITY NARROWLY LOST PROMOTION ON GOAL DIFFERENCE. HE SIGNED FOR SHEFFIELD UNITED FOR £500 IN 1910 AND LATER PLAYED FOR NOTTINGHAM FOREST, BEFORE RETURNING TO THE SECOND DIVISION. HE SCORED 105 GOALS IN 171 APPEARANCES IN HIS FOOTBALL PLAYING CAREER. JACKY SMITH WAS ONLY 5 FOOT 7 INCHES TALL BUT PLAYED WITH GREAT HEART. THE HULL DAILY MAIL REPORTED, “Although only a small man, he is endowed with any amount of trickery, yet prefers to bustle his opponents and seems to take glory in charging a six-foot back.”
HE MARRIED IN HULL, ON 01/07/1907. HIS WIFE ANNIE HENDRY BOSWORTH (1885-1961) & SIX CHILDREN, LIVED AT 3 STUDLEY TERRACE, RIPON STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 3752, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 34831, 10TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 17/10/1916, AGED 33.
LANCE CORPORAL, ARTHUR GIBSON, 13/1431, 8TH EYR. BORN HULL 1891. YOUNGEST SON OF WILLIAM THIRSK & ELIZABETH GIBSON, OF ENDYKE LANE, HULL. A FORMER TEACHER AT ADELAIDE STREET BOYS SCHOOL. HE WAS A PROMINENT SPORTSMAN, HAVE 
PLAYED CRICKET FOR SEVERAL SEASONS WITH THE HULL X1 AND ALSO FOOTBALL FOR GOOLE TOWN AFC. HE ENLISTED IN THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (THE HULL SPORTSMAN BATTALION), ON 12/06/1915. QUALIFIED AS A SIGNALLER. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 12/12/1916. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, WITH THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT FROM 13/01/1917. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 05/05/1917, AGED 26. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
SERGEANT, JOSEPH ALFRED JOHNSON, 10TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT (GRIMSBY CHUMS).. SON OF ELIZA ANN CLAYTON & THE LATE WILLIAM JOHNSON, OF 725 HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A TEACHER AND ASSISTANT MASTER OF MERSEY STREET COUNCIL SCHOOL. HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ALBANY FOOTBALL CLUB AND PLAYED FOR HULL CITY RESERVES. HE WAS A BRILLIANT BOWLER FOR THE HULL FIRST ELEVEN, WAS A MEMBER OF THE HULL MUSICAL UNION AND A TEACHER AT THE HULL ART SCHOOL.HE WAS WOUNDED BY SHRAPNEL, ON 23/12/1917 AND ADMITTED TO BOULOGNE HOSPITAL, ON 02/01/1918. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 12/01/1918, AGED 36. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 16/01/1918.
GUNNER, JAMES FRANCIS BROCKLEHURST, 10TH EYR. BORN VICTORIA, VANCOUVER 1896. ALSO KNOWN AS FRANCIS JAMES. SECOND SON OF JAMES CLARK & MARY BROCKLEHURST, 56 PLANE STREET, ANLABY ROAD. HE WAS KILLED IN THE ATTACK A SERRE ON 13/11/1916, AGED 21. HE IS LISTED AT ST MATHEWS CHURCH ROLL OF HONOUR. HE JOINED THE HULL PALS AT THE START OF WAR AND WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN SECTION. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED IN THE FRUIT TRADE. A KEEN SPORTSMAN HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ST ALBANS CRICKET TEAM & THE HULL & DISTRICT HARRIERS CLUB, BASED AT CALVERT LANE IN HULL. HE RAN IN THE CLUB’S, EIGHT MILE RACE, IN FEBRUARY 1914. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM ON 22/12/1916 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. HIS OLDER BROTHER WILLIAM SERVED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE HEAVY BATTERY IN EAST AFRICA.
THE FOLLOWING HULL HARRIERS WERE KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR: –
PTE, PERCY WRIGHT, 1/4TH EYR, 03/05/1915, YPRES, AGED 18 – 40 MORRILL STREET, HULL.
PTE, GEORGE HENRY TAYLOR, 10TH WYR, 31/10/1916, AGED 22 – 16 CHESTNUT AVENUE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL.
PTE, FRED SNOWDEN, 13TH EYR, 13/11/1916, AGED 22 – 13 WINNIE’S PLACE ST LUKES STREET
CPL, FRANK SIMPKINS, RFA, 21/04/1917, AGED 24 – 16 CURZON STREET, HULL.
PTE, WALTER BARNES, 13TH EYR, 04/05/1917, AGED 34 – 34 BRECON STREET, HULL.
PTE, SYDNEY WILBURN, 1/7TH MIDDLESEX REGIMENT, 30/08/1918, AGED 30 – 1 HAWTHORNE AVENUE, PULMAN STREET.
PTE, BERT WHYDLE, 7TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT, 26/08/1918, AGED 27, WHO MARRIED AND RESIDED IN HULL, WAS A REMARKABLE RUNNER AND HELD THE MARATHON CUP AND OTHER PRIZES FOR FLAT RACING. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, OLIVE, AND DAUGHTER, BEATRICE.
THE GREAT WAR TOOK A HEAVY TOLL ON HULL HARRIERS ATHLETIC CLUB. ITS’ SPORT’S PAVILION WAS DESTROYED IN A ZEPPELIN RAID (AND AGAIN IN WORLD WAR 2). SEVEN OF THE NINETEEN HULL HARRIERS, THAT RAN TOGETHER IN THE 8 MILE CHAMPIONSHIP RACE ON 21/02/1914, DIED IN THE GREAT WAR. OTHERS WERE WOUNDED. IT TOOK A LONG TIME FOR THE HARRIERS CLUB TO RECOVER. ONLY EIGHT RUNNERS TURNED OUT, FOR THE FIRST, ‘EIGHT MILE HANDICAP’ RACE, HELD AFTER THE WAR, ON THE 14TH FEBRUARY 1920.
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PTE, THOMAS ERNEST HUDSON, 9TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. BORN HULL, ON 13/05/1894. SON OF THOMAS WILLIAM HUDSON & ANNIE PARKER, OF 9 ALBERT SQUARE, ELLAS STREET. LIKE HIS BROTHER FRANCIS, HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ST JUDE’S FOOTBALL TEAM, THE HULL CITY SWIMMING CLUB AND THE HULL HARRIERS RUNNING CLUB. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 25TH AUGUST 1914. HE LEFT FOR THE DARDENELLES, ON THE 3RD JULY 1915, AND WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT SULVA BAY, ON 7TH AUGUST 1915, AGED 21. HIS BROTHER, PTE, FRANCIS PARKER HUDSON, 20847, RAMC, DIED AS A PRISONER OF WAR, IN GERMANY, ON THE 20TH OCTOBER 1918, AGED 23. 
SGT, JAMES GUEST, 3RD EYR. BORN HULL, 1889. AN ORIGINAL HULL PAL. HIS WIFE FLORENCE LIVED AT 25 FALMOUTH STREET. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN FOOTBALL CIRCLES AND ACTED AS GOALKEEPER FOR HULL CITY JUNIORS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, VISITING HOLLAND TO PLAY AGAINST A DUTCH FOOTBALL TEAM. HE ALSO PLAYED FOR LAMBERT STREET CRICKET CLUB. IN CIVIL LIFE, HE WORKED AS A CLERK FOR MR E T CLARKSON, PRINCES DOCK SIDE. HE ENLISTED IN SEPTEMBER 1914 AND WAS DISCHARGED ON THE 21ST JANUARY 1919. HE SERVED FOUR YEARS AND 105 DAYS, OF WHICH TWO AND HALF YEARS WERE SPENT IN FRANCE. HE DIED OF PNEUMONIA AT HOME, LEAVING A WIDOW AND ONE CHILD. HE WAS 30 YEARS OLD. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 25TH FEBRUARY 1919, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
PTE, FREDERICK CHARLES CLARK, 7TH LEICESTER REGIMENT. BORN BRISTOL 1899. SON OF WALTER WILLER AND BENA CLARK, OF HEDON. FRED CLARK WAS A HULL CITY FOOTBALLER, WHO PLAYED CENTRE FORWARD AND SCORED BOTH GOALS IN THE THAMESMOUTH CUP. HE ENLISTED IN HULL AND TRANSFERRED TO THE LEICESTER REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON THE 27/05/1918, AGED 19. HE IS LISTED ON THE SOISSONS MEMORIAL WHICH REMEMBERS ALMOST 4,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN THE BATTLES OF THE AISNE AND MARNE IN 1918, WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
PTE, JOHN SEYMOUR LEE, EYR. BORN IN HULL,1897, & JOINED THE HULL PALS. HE WAS THE SON OF JOHN & MARY ALICE LEE, 52 GREAT THORNTON STREET. EDUCATED AT CONSTABLE STREET SCHOOL, WHERE HE WON A SCHOLARSHIP TO BOULEVARD SECONDARY SCHOOL. WHILE THERE HE RECEIVED TWO MORE BURSARIES AND FINISHED WITH A FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE. HE LEFT SCHOOL AT 16 TO WORK FOR MESSRS BRUNT, BUCKNALL & CO. HE ENLISTED THE DAY AFTER THE FIRST ZEPPELIN RAID ON HULL, AGED 18. HE WENT TO FRANCE IN APRIL 1916 AND KILLED IN ACTION ON 13TH NOVEMBER 1916, AGED 19. HE WAS A KEEN LOVER OF SPORT AND FOLLOWED HULL FC TO EVERY NORTHERN UNION GROUND. WHEN HE WENT TO FRANCE HE SAID, “WHATEVER HAPPENS, I HAVE SEEN HULL WIN THE NORTHERN UNION CUP.” HE ALSO PLAYED TWO YEARS FOR THE STUDLEY CRICKET TEAM. PLAYED IN THE FIRST DIVISION OF THE HULL WHIST LEAGUE WHERE HE WAS KNOWN AS THE ‘YOUNGEN’. HIS FRIENDS REMEMBERED HIM AS “ALWAYS MERRY AND BRIGHT.” HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON THE 14TH JULY 1917.
L/CPL, CHARLES FREDERICK ROWE, RE’S. BORN HULL 1892. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF DANIEL & MARY ROWE, 16 DIVISION ROAD, HESSLE ROAD. LIKE HIS LATE FATHER HEWORKED AS A SHIP RIGGER AND WAS WELL KNOWN AT ST ANDREW’S DOCK. A FORMER MEMBER OF HULL THURSDAY CYCLING ROAD CLUB. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN CYCLING CIRCLES AND HELD THE 50 MILE AND 25 MILE CLUB RECORD. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR ELEVEN MONTHS, WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 25TH MAY 1917. HIS TWO BROTHERS ALSO SERVED IN THE ARMY.
Capt. Robert Albert Plimpton, of the Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, Captain of Beverley Cricket Club for 7 years, was killed in action on 27th September 1917, aged 30. He received the Military Cross.
SGT, ARTHUR ERNEST SANDERSON, 4th EYR. BORN HULL 1897. THE ONLY SON OF WILLIAM AND ANNIE SANDERSON, 41 BRUNSWICK STREET. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 11/9/17, AGED 20. HE WAS A MEMBER OF CRANBROOK AFC AND REMEMBERED ON THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL, PARK STREET, HULL.
SAPPER, JOSEPH CHARLES McDONALD, RE’S. BORN HULL 1896. SON OF DANIEL & SARAH McDONALD. 4 MASON STREET, HULL. DIED OF GAS POISONING RECEIVED IN FRANCE. HE RETURNED HOME WHERE HE DIED ON THE 25/10/1918, AGED 22. JOE HAD WON THE 9 STONE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP OF HULL, FOUR YEARS BEFORE. BEFORE ENLISTING IN MAY 1915, HE WORKED AS A MILL HAND, FOR MR VOKES, BUILDING CONTRACTORS. HE HAD 
SERVED IN FRANCE FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 6TH NOVEMBER 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. JOE McDONALD IS LISTED ON THE ST CHARLES’ CHURCH MEMORIAL HIS BROTHER SAPPER JAMES McDONALD, RE’S, DIED 23/5/16. ANOTHER BROTHER, DAVID MCDONALD WHO WAS DUE TO ENLIST, WAS FOUND DROWNED IN BEVERLEY BECK, IN 1917, AGED 17. IN ADDITION TO THESE THREE SONS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES. ANOTHER, WILLIAM McDONALD, LOST ONE OF HIS LEGS IN AN ACCIDENT AT THE EAGLE OILS MILLS. TWO MORE BROTHERS, SAPPER, DANIEL MCDONALD WAS WOUNDED AND CHIEF OFFICER, JOHN McDONALD, WAS TORPEDOED TWICE. THE McDONALD FAMILY HAD EXPERIENCED THIS EXTRAORDINARY BAD LUCK IN THE SHORT SPACE OF TWO YEARS.
SAPPER, JAMES MCDONALD, RE’S. BORN HULL 1895. SON OF DANIEL & SARAH, 4 MASON STREET. JAMES McDONALD LIKE HIS BROTHER JOSEPH WAS WELL KNOWN IN BOXING CIRCLES AND WON THE FEATHERWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP OF HULL, AT BEVERLEY ROAD BATHS, IN MARCH 1914. HE DIED OF WOUNDS ON 23RD MAY 1916, AGED 21. HIS BROTHER JOSEPH WAS ALSO KILLED. BOTH ARE LISTED ON ST CHARLES’ BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL.
PTE, JOSEPH WILLIAM ALLEN, 10TH EYR. BORN HULL 1894. ELDEST OF SIX CHILDREN TO JOHN AND DINAH ALLEN, 13 WILLIAM’S TERRACE, WOODHOUSE STREET. JOE WAS A HAIRDRESSER BEFORE THE WAR. HE WAS A RENOWNED FLY HALF AND HAD TRIALS FOR HULL KINGSTON ROVERS. ONE OF THE FIRST TO ENLIST IN SEPTEMBER 1914. HE MARRIED ELEANOR ANN THOMPSON, ON THE 11/10/1914, BEFORE HE WENT AWAY FOR TRAINING. HE SAW ACTION IN EGYPT, ON THE SOMME AND AT OPPY WOOD. HE WAS AWARDED THE BELGIUM ‘CROIX DE GUERRE’ FOR GALLANTRY. HE WAS KILLED ON THE 12/04/1918, AGED 24. HIS BODY WAS NEVER FOUND.
PTE, JAMES WATSON, 1ST EYR. KNOWN AS JERRY WATSON. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MESSRS.BLUNDELL & SPENCE LTD, BEVERLEY ROAD. AN OUTSTANDING AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER WHO PLAYED FOR THE WORKS TEAM WITH ‘WILF’ COLLEY. JERRY WAS DESCRIBED AS A “CENTRE THREE QUARTER OF GREAT PROMISE, BEING TRICKY AND SHARP ON HIS FEET”. HE WAS A RESERVE IN THE YORKSHIRE V’S LANCASHIRE SOLDIER’S MATCH AND ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT PLAY, WAS AWARDED HIS COUNTY JERSEY. HIS LAST MATCH PLAYED FOR BLUNDELL’S WAS AGAINST SISSONS’ IN THE 1913 ANNUAL CHARITY CUP. AND WATSON SCORED TWO TRIES. JERRY WATSON WAS ONE OF HULL’S FIRST CASUALTIES. KILLED IN ACTION ON THE 18/10/1914. HIS DEATH CAST A DARK GLOOM AT BLUNDEL’S AND WITHIN LOCAL RUGBY CIRCLES. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 14TH MAY 1915. 
PTE, WILFRED COLLEY, 1/4TH EYR. BORN HULL 1895. SON OF FRED & ROSE ELLEN, 46 WATERLOO STREET. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MESSRS. BLUNDEL & SPENCE LTD, BEVERLEY ROAD. ANOTHER OUTSTANDING AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER WHO PLAYED FOR THE WORKS TEAM WITH ‘JERRY’ WATSON. ‘WILF’ WAS DESCRIBED AS A “FORWARD OF ROBUST STYLE”. IN THEIR LAST MATCH PLAYED FOR BLUNDELL’S, AGAINST SISSONS IN THE 1913 ANNUAL CHARITY CUP, BOTH PLAYED BRILLIANTLY. WILF WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES, ON THE 03/05/1915, AGED 19. HE IS LISTED ON THE JARRETT STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (ROH’S) & CLIFTON STREET SCHOOL ROH’s. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, ON THE 14TH MAY 1915.
GUNNER, REGINALD GREY, RGA. BORN CARDIFF 1887. ENLISTED HULL 26/8/16. SON OF H & M GREY – 13 FREEHOLD STREET, HULL.HIS WIFE MRS M GREY LIVED, 21 QUEENSGATE STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR REGINALD WORKED FOR THE WILSON LINE. HE PROCEEDED TO THE FRONT ON 10TH JULY 1915. HE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM HOME LEAVE, FIVE WEEKS BEFORE HE WAS KILLED. HIS COMMANDING OFFICER DESCRIBED “HIS STERLING QUALITIES, EFFICIENT AND POPULAR WITH BOTH OFFICERS AND MEN, HE MADE A VERY GOOD NCO.” HE IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 15TH MAY 1916. 
STEWARD, ALFRED MOORE, RNR. BORN GRIMSBY 1900. SON OF ELIZA EMMA & THE LATE JOHN MOORE, 1 ALEXANDER TERRACE, WYKE STREET, HULL. HE DROWNED WHEN THE STEAM SHIP ‘WHORLTON’ STRUCK A MINE, ON 1ST DECEMBER 1918. HE WAS 18 YEARS OLD. HE IS REMEMBERED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROLL OF HONOUR.
2ND LIEUT., GEORGE EDWIN QUIBELL, 4TH MIDDLESEX REGIMENT OF 11 FITZROY STREET. BORN HULL 1897. ONLY ON OF EDWIN QUIBELL & SOPHIE ELIZABETH (SPRING). SISTERS ELEANOR & JOAN QUIBELL.HE WAS AN OLD HYMERIAN. PLAYED FOOTBALL FOR THE COLLEGE AND LATER OF THE CRANBROOK FOOTBALL CLUB, A SPRIGHTLY NEWLAND ORGANISATION WHO ALL ENLISTED TOGETHER AT THE START OF THE WAR. HE WAS ALSO AN EXCELLENT CRICKETER AND PLAYED FOR NORTH CAVE CC. FROM YOUTH HE WAS CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH THE NEWLAND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND BECAME A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER THERE. IN BUSINESS LIFE HE WAS ON THE STAFF OF MESSRS. LATUS & CO. HIS WINNING AND CHEERFUL PERSONALITY WON HIM MANY FRIENDS. GEORGE QUIBELL WAS PART OF THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO EGYPT. HE WAS OFFICIALLY REPORTED KILLED ON 26TH MARCH 1917. HIS FATHER EDWIN WAS MANAGING DIRECTOR OF LOCAL BUILDERS MESSRS, QUIBELL, SON & GREENWOOD LTD WHO BUILT THE HULL CENOTAPH. GEORGE’S DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 5TH APRIL 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
PTE, LEONARD YOUNG, 10TH EYR. BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM & ANN MARY YOUNG, 1 DERWENT TERRACE, ALFONSO STREET, HULL. A CLERK FOR THOMAS WILSON & SONS. ENLISTED IN THE ‘HULL COMMERCIALS’ ON 02/09/1914. DIED OF WOUNDS AT ARRAS, ON 25/06/1917, AGED 19. LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH
. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON THE 4TH JULY 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
CPL, LEONARD WHITELAM, 12TH EYR. BORN HULL 1890. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM, ASC, & M J WHITELAM, 303 BOULEVARD. BEFORE ENLISTING HE WORKED AS A FISH & ICE MERCHANT. KILLED IN ACTION ON 09/11/17, AGED 28. LISTED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ROH AND WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROLL OF HONOUR.
CPL, PERCY EDWIN PLATT, RFA. BORN HULL 1896. PARENTS WILLIAM ROBERT & MARY ANN PLATT & ELEVEN CHILDREN – FAIRVIEW AVENUE, HALCYON, HESSLE. HE WAS ONE OF SIX SONS SERVING. HIS BROTHER HAROLD BEING KILLED IN ACTION IN 1916. PERCY JOINED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR TWO YEARS. HE LIVED AT 227 HOLDERNESS ROAD. WAS A MEMBER OF THE HESSLE OLD BOYS FOOTBALL CLUB AND THE HESSLE PRIMITIVE CRICKET CLUB. HE WAS AGED 21 WHEN KILLED IN ACTION. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 5TH MAY 1917.
PTE, JOHN HENRY WRIGGLESWORTH, 1/4TH EYR. (Pictured left). BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOHN HENRY & MARY WRIGGLESWORTH, 312 HAWTHORNE AVENUE. HE WAS A SINGLE MAN. EMPLOYED AS A MESSENGER FOR THE NORTHEASTERN RAILWAY LINE. HIS FATHER WAS A NORTHEASTERN RAILWAY GUARD AND WELL KNOWN IN DAIRYCOATES AREA OF HULL. JOHN HAD ALREADY DONE FOUR YEARS IN THE TERRITORIALS AND WAS A GOOD SHOT. HE WAS SECRETARY OF THE NEWINGTON PARISH FOOTBALL CLUB AND MEMBER OF THE NORTHEASTERN RAILWAY CRICKET TEAM AND RIFLE CLUB. HE WAS KILLED AT YPRES, ON 02/05/1915, AGED 23
. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH APPEAR IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL 14TH JUNE 1915.CPL, CHARLES HUDDLESTONE, 2ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. BORN BEVERLEY 2/5/1887. HE LIVED AT 7 CATHERINE GROVE, CARRINGTON STREET, HULL. FORMERLY 13/785 OF THE EYR & ORIGINAL HULL PAL. SERVED IN ‘B CO, DLI. HE WAS KILLED ON 20/04/1918, AGED 31. HE IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH.
CPL, ARTHUR FREDERICK FARR, 1ST EYR. BORN HULL 1880. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SON OF ARTHUR FREDERICK ELLEN ELIZABETH FARR, 11 JANE’S PLACE, PORTER STREET, HULL. DIED OF WOUNDS ON THE 04/05/1916, AGED 35. LEFT HIS WIDOW ADA FARNHILL TO MOURN HIS LOSS. LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH.
SGT, REGINALD JAMES CHESTER, 13TH EYR. BORN HULL 1888. SON OF JAMES & ANNIE MARIA CHESTER, 81 MELROSE STREET, HULL. MARRIED 1913. WIFE GLADYS ENID THORLEY & THREE SMALL CHILDREN. HE WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 28. LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROLL OF HONOUR.
PTE, CHARLES ROWLAND INGHAM, 11TH EYR. BORN LEEDS 1887. CHARLES WAS THE YOUNGEST OF SIX CHILDREN TO STEPHEN AND EMMA INGHAM. BOTH PARENTS DIED YOUNG AND CHARLES SPENT MANY YEARS LIVING WITH HIS BROTHER, FIRST IN LEEDS WHERE HE WORKED AS A CLERK IN A CORN MILL, AND THEN IN HULL, WHERE HE RESIDED 
AT 5 BROOKSIDE VILLAS, GRANGE STREET. HE ENLISTED AT HULL CITY HALL ON THE 03/01/1915, ORIGINALLY IN THE 14TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, BEFORE BEING TRANSFERRED TO THE 11TH EYR AFTER ARRIVING IN FRANCE ON THE 16/4/1916. HE RETURNED TO FRANCE ON THE 21/4/1917 ND A FORTNIGHT LATER WAS KILLED IN ACTION AS THE PALS ATTACKED OPPY WOOD ON THE 03/05/1917. HIS BODY WAS NEVER RECOVERED AND HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HE WAS 30 YEARS OLD AND REMEMBERED FOR HIS SPORT ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET AND ATHLETIC ROLL OF HONOUR.
PTE, REGINALD EDWARD SAUNBY, 1ST EYR.
BORN HULL 1894. HULL PAL. SON OF EDWARD S. & EMILY SAUNBY, OF 29 SANDRINGHAM STREET, HULL. PRIOR TO WAR, HE WORKED ON THE STAFF OF THE ELLERMAN – WILSON SHIPPING LINE. HE ENLISTED IN SEPTEMBER 1914. WAS WOUNDED IN JUNE 1916. TRAINED AS A LEWIS GUNNER FOR THE EYR. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON THE 08/02/1918, AGED 24. HE IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 15TH FEBRUARY 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
ENGINEER, THOMAS SHERBURN WRIGHT, STEAM TRAWLER ‘CELIA’. BORN 1893. HIS MOTHER LIVED AT 60 MARMADUKE STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE WAS LOST AT SEA ON THE 08/01/1915, AGED 21. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES ON 06/02/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. LISTED ON THE EDGAR STREET SHRINE. LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROLL OF HONOUR.
PTE, FREDERICK MARTIN RAINE, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS.BORN HULL 1899. SON OF HENRY & RACHEL ANN RAINE, OF 120 CLUMBER STREET, HULL. HE DIED AT HOME ON THE 22/05/1918, AGED 18, AND IS BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HE IS REMEMBERED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH.
PTE, GODFREY WILCOCKSON, 1ST EYR. BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF JOHN & ADA WILCOCKSON, OF 46 BERKELEY STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON THE 25/04/1918, AGED 24. HE IS LISTED ON HYMER’S COLLEGE MEMORIAL AND ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROLL OF HONOUR.
CPL, SYDNEY WADE, 17TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. BORN HEDON 1891. SON OF FRED & HELEN WADE. HE MARRIED JULY 1914 AND JOINED THE RAILWAY PALS WHEN WAR BEGAN. PRIOR TO WAR HE WAS A NORTHEASTERN RAILWAY JOINER IN HULL. HE HAD SERVED IN THE 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE CYCLISTS FOR FOUR YEARS AS A TERRITORIAL. HE WAS A WELL-KNOWN AMATEUR FOOTBALLER AND CRICKETER. HE WAS SHOT IN THE ARM AND CHEST AND DIED OF WOUNDS. ON 05/02/1916, AGED 26. HIS OFFICER DESCRIBED HIM TO HIS WIFE AMY WADE AS “ONE OF THE FINEST CHARACTERS I HAVE KNOWN AND IT HAS BEEN AN HONOUR TO HAVE SUCH A MAN SERVE WITH ME.” HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 17TH FEBRUARY 1916 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. 
Private Tait recorded the incident: “…being our first time under fire many of us are in no joking mood. Directly we enter trenches we see Wells of C Company being carried out dead. This upsets us a great deal, as he is a terrible sight.”
2ND LIEUT., HARRY PERCIVAL ROBINSON, RAF – BORN HULL 1900. SON OF PERCIVAL & SARAH ROBINSON – 47 WYNDHAM STREET. HE ENLISTED IN SEPTEMBER 1917 AND RECEIVED A COMMISSION FOUR AND A HALF MONTHS LATER. PRIOR TO JOINING HE WORKED FOR THE ELLERMAN, WILSON SHIPPING LINE. HE HAD RECEIVED HIS ‘WINGS’ ONLY THREE WEEKS BEFORE AND WAS KILLED IN AN AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 19 YEARS OLD IN AUGUST. HARRY ROBINSON IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 28TH JUNE 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. HE IS BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
PTE, FRANK HERBERT JOHNSON, 10TH EYR.BORN HULL 1893. SON OF WALTER HERBERT & BELLA JOHNSON 156 ALLIANCE AVENUE. HE JOINED THE HULL PALS IN SEPTEMBER 1914. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 12/04/1918, AGED 25. A KEEN SPORTSMAN HE WAS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUBS ROLL OF HONOUR.
PTE, ARTHUR JOHN HOLFORD, 2/6TH NOTTS & DERBY REGIMENT.BORN HULL 1898. SON OF JOHN & ALICE HOLFORD AT 6 VENTNOR STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT ARRAS, ON 21/03/1918, AGED 20. HE IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH.
CPL, WALTER CYRIL BILLINGTON, 11TH EAST LANCS.BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WALTER & KATE BILLINGTON, 2 ELM VILLAS, BRAZIL STREET. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS AND WAS LATER TRANSFERRED TO THE ACCRINGTON PALS. HE WAS KILLED AT SERRE ON THE 02/07/1916, AGED 26. LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH.
PTE, JOHN RICHARD DEAN, 34TH AUSTRALIANS. BORN HULL 1895. SON OF JOHN & JANE E. DEAN, HULL. KNOWN AS ‘JACK’. HE LIVED AT 6 SCOTT’S SQUARE, HUMBER STREET. HE WAS BROTHER OF TOM & MARY AKA ‘MADGE OF THE OLD TOWN’, HULL. IN 1901 HE LEFT FOR AUSTRALIA. HE WAS PRESENTED WITH TWO GOLD MEDALS FOR LIFE SAVING. ONE FROM THE TOWN OF CARRINGTON AND PREVIOUSLY AWARDED THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY MEDAL IN HULL. HIS BROTHER SGT., T DEAN, RGA, WON THE MILITARY MEDAL 18 MONTHS BEFORE AND WAS WELL KNOWN IN SWIMMING AND ANGLING CIRCLES. JOHN’S DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 26TH DECEMBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
LIEUT., GRENVILLE WYNN THOMAS, 2/4TH GURKHA RIFLES. BORN LIVERPOOL 1897. ELDEST SON OF THE REVEREND LLEWELYN WYNN & HELEN PENELOPE THOMAS, THE NEWLAND VICARAGE AND WAVETREE, LANCS. HULL HE WAS EDUCATED AT OXFORD PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND OBTAINED A SCHOLARSHIP AT ROSSALL. HE CAPTAINED THE SCHOOL FOOTBALL, HOCKEY AND SWIMMING TEAMS. HE WAS THE QMS IN THE SCHOOL CADETS. IN APRIL 1915 HE SAILED TO INDIA. WAS COMMISSIONED SIX MONTHS LATER IN THE 2/4TH GURKHA RIFLES AFTER SERVING ON THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER HE WAS POSTED TO MESOPOTAMIA. HE SERVED AT KUT WAS WOUNDED AND INVALIDED BACK TO INDIA AND THEN PALESTINE HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 22ND MARCH 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. HIS BROTHER ERIC THOMAS WAS KILLED IN FRANCE IN DECEMBER 1917.
PTE, LEONARD FREDERICK INSTONE, 3RD COLDSTREAM GUARDS. BORN MADRAS, INDIA 1898. SON OF CSM, LOUIS INSTONE, KOYLI, & CONSTANCE INSTONE – 16 TORRINGTON STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL. BOTH FATHER AND SON WERE KILLED IN ACTION. A FORMER NEWLAND AVENUE SCHOOL PUPIL. IN 1911 LEONARD INSTONE WAS HULL’S JUNIOR SWIMMING CHAMPION AND ALSO IN THE TEAM WHICH WON THE SCHOOL’S CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD. HE WAS REPORTED WOUNDED WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH N THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 15TH SEPTEMBER 1914. HE DIED OF WOUNDS ON 1/5/1915. HE WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD.
PRIVATE, PATRICK LAVERY, HULL CITY’S OUTSIDE LEFT SERVED WITH THE 10TH HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. HE WAS KILLED ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE LOOS BATTLE, ON 25/09/1915, AGED 30.
GUNNER, DOUGLAS MORGAN, HULL CITY’S LEFT BACK SERVED WITH THE 168TH SIEGE BATTERY, ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. HE PLAYED 56 GAMES FOR THE CLUB AND 6 F.A. CUP MATCHES. HIS LIFE CAME TO A TRAGIC END AS WHILE CELEBRATING HOGMANAY, ON 31ST DECEMBER 1918 WITH HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS, A GERMAN SHELL STRUCK THE GROUND BESIDE THEM. HE DIED NEXT DAY OF HIS WOUNDS AGED 26.
SPORT & LEISURE IN THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
photograph (Q 34891) Southern Division Troops on the Rhine. Sports Meeting: Hurdle race. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205300288
