Waters, Alexander Preston
BORN HULL 20/03/1895. SON OF ALEXANDER HUTCHINSON WATERS (1859-1900) AND MRS KATE KINGSTON, OF 51 HEDON ROAD, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. A SAWMILL LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS…
Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914 - 1918
The story of Hull in World War 1
BORN HULL 20/03/1895. SON OF ALEXANDER HUTCHINSON WATERS (1859-1900) AND MRS KATE KINGSTON, OF 51 HEDON ROAD, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. A SAWMILL LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS…
…was a cadet at Training College Alston Hall Holbeton near Plymouth and on 29 April 1917 was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion East Yorks. On 01 June 1917…
Archbald & Fred Sims both served with the Northumberland Fusiliers. They died in France within weeks of each other in early 1917. They were the sons of Elizabeth Sims, at…
…IN ACTION AT OPPY WOOD, ON 03/05/1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE DIVIDED BETWEEN HIS BROTHERS, WILLIAM, JOHN AND JOSEPH BARKER AND HIS MARRIED SISTERS, SARAH ANN POSTILL, ELIZABETH HORDEN AND…
…killed or injured. 2nd Lieutenant Jack Harrison, a local teacher and rugby player with Hull FC, won a posthumous Victoria Cross for his bravery in rushing a machine gun position…
…OF NETTIE UTTON ABOVE ADDRESS. HIS REMAINS WERE FOUND IN MAY 1927 AND HE WAS INTERRED IN ORCHARD DUMP CEMETERY. BEFORE THE WAR HENRY UTTON WAS A WOOD TURNING MACHINIST….
…attacked and were repulsed. Officers and NCO’s reformed their men in No Man’s Land under terrific fire and attacked again, and again were repulsed. Some even attacked a third time…..”…
…ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. PROMOTED TWICE. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/11/1917, AGED 36. HE IS BURIED AT ORCHARD DUMP CEMETERY, ARLEUX-EN-GOHELLE, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS…
…Royal Garrison Artillery, of 2, Council Houses, St. Dennis, St. Austell, Cornwall (CWGC address). Enlisted Reading, Berkshire. Served as Lance Sergeant, 4th Middlesex Regiment. Killed in action, on 01/07/1916, aged…
…A FRUIT BROKER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. A FORMER SOLDIER FOR 5 YEARS AND TERRITORIAL FOR 3 YEARS. HE WORKED FOR BLUNDELL’S PAINT FACTORY AS A CIVILIAN….