Clark, John William (Billy)

…a local teacher and rugby player with Hull FC, won a posthumous Victoria Cross for his bravery in rushing a machine gun position to protect his platoon. His body was…

Bridges, Albert

…A THIRD TIME, ON 16/10/1917 – ‘GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THIGH, FOOT AND HEAD’. TRANSFERRED BACK TO ENGLAND ON 01/11/1917. WENT ABSENT FOR 9 DAYS AT SUTTON VENY, DEVERILL, AND LOST…

Barker, Christopher (Chris)

…eleven children to George and Mary Ann Barker of 64 Seaton Street, Fountain Road, Hull. Working first as a Labourer in an Oil Works and then as a Belt Mender,…

Busby, John

…IN THE ARMY FOR 2 YEARS AND 229 DAYS. COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO WIFE, ANN BEESLEY AND FOUR CHILDREN. HIS DEATH…

Scottow, Fred Arthur

…action on 2nd May 1917 as the 11th Battalion took their positions for a new attack, a diversion as part of the wider Battle of Arras, on a place called…

Townsend, Walter

…at Hornsea, Beverley and Ripon where he was ‘severely reprimanded’ for overstaying his furlough by a day. After serving in Egypt over Christmas 1915, the Pals arrived on the Western…

Davie MM, Frank

…WOUNDED ON THE 3RD MAY 1917 AT OPPY WOOD, AND RETURNED TO ENGLAND. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 2ND JUNE 1917, AGED 27, AT THE ENDSLEIGH PALACE HOSPITAL FOR OFFICERS,…

Horsfield, Stanley

…a little more prosaically: “Each dawn and dusk there was what was known as a ‘Stand To’ when every man stood at his ‘alarm post’ ready for instant action. There…

Sharp, George

…Barrow-in-Furness, one of the crew of the HYDRO, was washed ashore at Point Ballantrae on Sunday. [Aberdeen Daily Journal 26.1.1915] Neil Emanuel Anderson, one of the six survivors of the…