Moamwell, James

…ADDRESS). SON OF A LABOURER. HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS. A FORMER PRINTER, WITH GODDARD, WALKER & BROWN, LTD., SILVER STREET, HULL. HE WAS UNMARRIED. RESIDED AT 18…

Aldred, Robert

command of Lt-Col W.T. Wilkinson of 1/4th East Yorkshires.[21] [22] [68] [69] On the morning of 26 March the Germans renewed their attacks, bringing on the Battle of Rosières. 50th…

Kenningham, Arthur Gilbert

…Asiatic Squadron under Admiral Graf von Spee off Coronel, Chile. The two German armoured cruisers, Scharnhorst (flagship) and Gneisenau, were armed with eight 8-2 in. guns apiece and greatly outranged…

Gale, Herbert

…THE NAVY ON S/S ALPHONSE (CARDIFF). WAS PRESENT AT THE MESSINA EARTH QUAKE IN 1910, AND AWARDED THE KING OF ITALY’S MEDAL FOR HIS SERVICES AGED ONLY 15. HE ENLISTED…

Monday, John Henry

…Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, “The Commercials”, 1st Hull Pals. Training at barracks in Hornsea, Beverley and Ripon throughout much of 1915, the Pals left Devonport for Alexandria, Egypt on 8th…

Allen CDG, Joseph William

…Ann Thompson at Drypool Parish Church on 11th October 1914. One of the original Pals, Joseph fought in Egypt, on the Somme and at Oppy Wood seeing his comrades decimated…

Wilson, Ernest James

…Gordon Wilson, 1st City of London, killed on 24/3/1918, aged 23, also appears on his War Pension record. He was the Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Wilson, of “Montrose”,…

Whisker, MM, Harry

…Trained at Dalton, Ripon and Salisbury Camps. Served with the 11th East Yorkshire Regiment, in Egypt and France. Wounded in the thigh and thumb, on 17/08/1917. Re-joined his unit, on

Matson, Ernest

BORN HULL 1894. YOUNGEST SON OF JOHN & ELIZABETH MATSON 9 EBENEZER TERRACE, WEST DOCK AVENUE, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS) A FISH HOUSE LABOURER (1911 CENSUS) AND WORKING FOR THE…

Hull Technical College Roll of Honour

and Spring Bank, which 20 years ago and less was as destitute of life and light after dark as the most destitute region in the world”. The orphanage became too…