Booth, Alfred Arthur
…BOOTH LIVED AT 79, SPRING STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS). HE EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA. ENLISTED AT MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, ON 30/11/1914, AGED 32. LEFT FOR ALEXANDRA ON 04/04/1915, AND SERVED AS A…
Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914 - 1918
The story of Hull in World War 1
…BOOTH LIVED AT 79, SPRING STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS). HE EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA. ENLISTED AT MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, ON 30/11/1914, AGED 32. LEFT FOR ALEXANDRA ON 04/04/1915, AND SERVED AS A…
…Backwell of the East Yorkshire Regiment was commissioned as a temporary 2nd Lieutenant on probation with the Lancashire Fusiliers on 2 January 1917. Transferred to the 20th Lancashire Fusiliers and…
…COMPLEXION, CHURCH OF ENGLAND RELIGION. HE MARRIED AT SCULCOATES REGISTRY OFFICE, HULL, 16/09/1914. HUSBAND OF EMILY FLORENCE (PEARSON), OF 4 GRANVILLE TERRACE, MANCHESTER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEIR ONLY…
…made a home at 18 Buchanon Street, Blackpool. Michael worked as a Master Corn Miller and had two men in his employ. Their eldest son, John, aged just 14, before…
William Edward Brook, “A Promising Hull Lad” BORN HULL 1897. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM BROOK & ADA CATHERINE MARSHALL, AT 158, REGENT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 6,…
…WORKED AS A CLERK FOR A MANURE MANUFACTURER (1911 CENSUS) HE MARRIED MILLIE ALETHEA HOLNES (1891-1981), AT HULL, IN OCTOBER 1914. THEY LIVED AT, 1, LINDON AVENUE, COTTINGHAM, HULL AND…
…WIDOWED MOTHER, ANNA. HIS MEDALS FORFEITED. HIS NAME DOES NOT APPEAR ON ANY MEMORIALS IN HULL. IT APPEARS THAT HIS MOTHER WAS TOLD THE REASON FOR HIS DEATH AND KEPT…
…gun in those Oppy trees; and he’d fought the German Spring Offensive to a standstill, only to die at the hands of a miscalculation by an artillery observer. In short,…
…ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. ONE OF FOUR SONS WHO ALL DIED IN THE WAR. HE WORKED FOR THE HULL CORPORATION, AS A NIGHT SOIL COLLECTOR AND ONLY HAD…
…company. He was married to Elizabeth Alice Barrett and the couple lived at 3 Bethel Place, Witham, Hull and 2, Thornton Terrace, Walker Street, Hull (War Pension address). Fred enlisted…