THE CITY OF HULL GREAT WAR TRUST
…had provided a child of a disabled serviceman, with a University education and he had obtained a BA (Hons) Degree. Another beneficiary was a disabled child of a soldier killed…
Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914 - 1918
The story of Hull in World War 1
…had provided a child of a disabled serviceman, with a University education and he had obtained a BA (Hons) Degree. Another beneficiary was a disabled child of a soldier killed…
…are commemorate at Ypres (13 men), Thiepval, (14), Arras (8), Tyne Cot (6) and the Helles Memorial, Turkey (6). Sailors lost at sea are commemorated at London’s Tower Hill Memorial…
…food and clothes and for more permanent cases rent free lodgings and allowances for food, clothes and heating. For those who could work, jobs were sought for them. On the…
…the war, winning hearts and minds was just as important as winning a battle, and propaganda at a national scale became an essential prt of any military action. Prices, Tax…
…alarm and mutual resentment between Germany and Britain. This was not unique to Britain. Russia, America and many Europeans also resented and felt threatened by German influence, before war began….
…killed in action on 7th September 1918 as the Pals attacked German positions around Soyer Farm and ran up against a wall of barbed wire uncut by shelling and heavily…
…Although his train arrived at Paragon Station at 1.28am, on a Sunday morning, the crowds and and a band were waiting to greet their ‘local hero’. On emerging from the…
…and Gwen; Peggy, Joe and Jack; Auntie Joe, Arthur and Hylda (Misterton); Uncle Fred, Aunt Nellie, and Harry; Percy and Kate; Uncle Walter, Auntie and Enid; May and Alec (Canada);…
…at the Barmston Drain, the Hull and Barnsley Railway goods yards on Temple Street and Stepney Lane. Harold Gilbert, Arthur Higgins, Walter Clappison, John Biggins and Fred Ball, all worked…
…lost at sea, in 1914, and James Arthur Bachelor and his wife’s, brother Percy Dixon. There are also a father and son, listed on the Memorial, both called Thomas Ashley,…