Wilson, Francis Charles

…LONDON AND RECORDED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. HIS OLDER BROTHERS, SGT, PAUL WILSON, RE’S & THEN CEF, DIED ON 22/01/1917, AGED 48, IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. AND SEAMAN,…

Cooper, Joseph (Joe)

AND WAS KILLED AT ARRAS, ON 09/04/1917, AGED 26. ONE OF FIVE BROTHERS WHO SERVED IN THE WAR, THE COOPER’S WERE FEATURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 12/02/1916.  …

Fyson, Geoffrey

…when war began. Served as a Lieutenant, in the 1st Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment. Was killed in action, in Macedonia, on 04/09/1918, aged 33. Commemorated at DOIRAN MEMORIAL, Greece. He…

Martin, Albert

Albert Martin Grave, Bridlington Cemetery BORN BRIDLINGTON 04/07/1887. SON OF WILLIAM MARTIN (1860-1935) AND SARAH ANN KIRBY (1860-1929), OF 6 NELSON ROAD, BRIDLINGTON. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS….

Craike-Pickering, MC, Maurice Stanley

…SAMUELSON HOSPITAL, BRIGHTON. HE WAS AWARDED THE MILITARY CROSS (MC), “FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY IN ACTION. HE FOUGHT HIS MACHINE GUN WITH GREAT COURAGE AND DETERMINATION, REPULSING AN ENEMY COUNTER ATTACK,…

Millett, John Richard

…A REGULAR SOLDIER, MARRIED AND LIVING IN BRADFORD. ARTHUR SERVED WITH KING’S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS, FOR 14 YEARS AND WAS KILLED AT SALONIKA, ON 28/07/1918, AGED 32. Othello II, built…

Fyson, Oliver

Private, Oliver Fyson, CEF BORN HULL, 25/10/1884. SON OF MRS ELEANOR FYSON (1850-1935) AND THE RIGHT REV. PHILIP KEMBAL FYSON (1846-1928), BISHOP IN HOKKAIDO, JAPAN, AND RECTOR, OF EMLEY LOVETT,…

Wildbore, Joseph

…BROTHERS (JAMES, HAROLD, THOMAS, RICHARD, ALBERT, ERNEST, HARRY AND SYDNEY). A FISH DOCK LABOURER. HE MARRIED IN APRIL 1909. HIS WIFE GENESTA WILSON (1889-1988) AND THREE CHILDREN LIVED AT 12…

Wigby, Benjamin

…IN ACTION, ON 04/08/1916, AGED 20. HIS COMMANDING OFFICER WROTE HE WAS CAIGHT BY MACHINE GUN FIRE AND WAS KILLED INSTANTLY. “HE WAS A MOST EXCELLENT SOLDIER AND ALL OFFICERS…

Wood, Robert

…of nine children, to Robert and Annie Wood. Robert was a Hairdresser and Tobacconist by trade and at the time of the 1911 Census lived with his sister at 46…