Rudge, George Joseph

BORN HULL 02/01/1859. SON OF JOE RUDGE (1811-1881) & SUSAN REBECCA COX (1831-1887). WORKED AS A TRAWLERMAN. HE MARRIED TWICE. ON 25/07/1883 TO EMMA BARMBY (1863-1897) & THEN ANNIE LAWSON,…

Gray, Charles Herbert

…the resulting explosion killed 19 seamen though the cruiser remained afloat. After the attack and as normal procedure, the convoy dispersed – the remaining naval and auxiliary escorts including the…

Tennant, John William (Jack)

…WITH HIS PARENTS AT THIS ADDRESS. JOHN WAS INVOLVED IN A TRAIN DE-RAILMENT AT NEWARK IN 1915 AND WAS AWARDED A SILVER WATCH BY THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY FOR

Stathers, Walter

BORN HULL 21/05/1890. MARRIED 1915. HUSSBAND OF LOUISA, LIVING AT 19 & 53 ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). SON OF CHARLES & ANNIE STATHERS, OF 3 FAWCETT STREET, HULL….

Goy, James Albert

BORN HULL 1890. HE HAD JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY AT 16 AND WAS UNMARRIED. HE WAS AGED 26 WHEN HE WAS LOST AT SEA DURING THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND. HIS…

Braithwaite, Frederick

…BULLARD, PERCY ALBERT (24), Deck Hand (no. 5415DA), HMD Coleus, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/10/1918, Son of William Charles Bullard, of Lowestoft, and the late Eliza Bullard; husband of Ruth Boyack…

Whittaker, Fred

…VANGUARD suffered an explosion in one of the two magazines which served the amidships turrets P and Q. She sank almost instantly, killing 677 men. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10477…

Ditch, James William Henry

Stoker, James William Ditch BORN HULL 1897. ORPHANED AT AN EARLY AGE. HE LIVED WITH GRANDPARENTS, HENRY & ABBY EVANS, AND HIS SISTER MAUD, AT PATRINGTON AND 2 IVY TERRACE,…

Henderson, David

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF SARAH JANE HENDERSON & IN LAWS ETHEL STANIFORD, OF 1 PORTLAND AVENUE, WITHERNSEA STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). OIL MILLER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 11080,…

Blackburn, Benjamin Holmes

…THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY. “HE HAD EXTRAORDINARY GOOD WORK THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN AND WAS UNIVERALLY POPULAT AMONGST HIS COMREADES.” HE WAS KILLED RESCUING A WOUNDED COMRADE, AT ZILLEBEKE. DIED ON 21/02/1915,…