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…

Jones, Arthur Godman

…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…

Barker, George Thomas

…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

Frith, Samuel David

…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

Utton, Henry Walter

…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….

Shaw, Frank

…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…..”…

Watmough, Francis Thomas

…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…

Goldsmith, Arthur Ralph

…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…

Varey, Charles William

…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….