Burnham, George

George Burnham BORN HASTINGS 1872. WIDOW & 5 CHILDEN LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. SON OF GERTRUDE & TED BURNHAM. DEATH REPORTED IN THE HDM, ON 09/05/1918. The fishing vessel, WINDWARD…

Drewery, Walter Gordon

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF WALTER DREWERY (1865-1940) & BEATRICE HANNAH DREWERY, OF 29, WALTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A HOUSE PAINTER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY,…

Whiting, Albert Ernest

…AT ST JAMES CHURCH, HULL, IN 1917. HUBAND OF ROSE CHORLTON (1899-1984), OF 261, BOULEVARD, HULL. (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). AN ASSISTANT BAKER (1911 CENSUS). HE THEN WORKED AS A FISHERMAN,…

Reed, George Ernest

…seen much fighting. Killed in action, by a shell explosion, on 30/07/1917, aged 24. A former dock labourer. Unmarried. His army effects were left to his mother, Clara. His brother,…

Whitaker, Leonard

…DURING THIS TIME, LEONARD WAS PROMOTED TO CORPORAL AND SERGEANT AND WAS OBVIOUSLY A CAPABLE AND EFFICIENT SOLDIER. HE SERVED AT THE FRONT FOR 18 MONTHS. AND RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION

Grinlaw, Thomas

…LOST AT SEA, ON 28/09/1916, AGED 43. THOMAS GRINLAW LEFT A WIFE MAUD GRINLAW AND SIX CHILDREN AT 12 PRINCES AVENUE, WEST DOCK AVENUE, HULL. HE LEFT £94 TO HIS…

Raspin, Frank

on 3 May and all suffered heavy casualties, with 40% of those present killed or injured. 2nd Lieutenant Jack Harrison, a local teacher and rugby player with Hull FC, won

Pougher, William Henry

…Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?56 HIS BROTHER, ARTHUR POUGHER, SERVED AS WILLIAM JOHNSON. ENLISTED IN THE 1ST EYR, IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON THE SOMME, ON 26/09/1916, AGED 26….

Fletcher, Henry Addison (Harry)

BORN CORNWALL 1870. WIFE SARAH ANN FLETCHER, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS AND ALSO AT 11 ST ANDREWS STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE HELD A SKIPPER’S CERTIFICATE FOR TWENTY YEARS AND BELONGED…

Wilson, John Thomas

…ship AIREDALE, on voyage from Rouen to Sunderland in ballast, sank after a collision, 10 miles of Cape d’Ailly. Previously called SS Klyra from 1894-1897. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?207221…