Ounsworth, Alfred Whittington

…KING’S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY AND WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 07/05/1917, AGED 34. HIS BROTHER, SERGEANT, FRANK OUNSWORTH, WAS CALLED UP AT THE START OF WAR. SERVED AS A…

Northard, Robert

…SIX SISTERS. HE WORKED AS A LBOURER AND WAS WELL KNOWN ON HULL DOCKS. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1909, AGED 21. HUSBAND OF SARA ELIZABETH NOVIS (1889-1971) & FOUR…

Cuckle, Louis

Pte, Louis Cuckle. Hull Daily Mail 17 August 1916 BORN DAUGAVPILS, LATVIA (THEN DVINSK IN RUSSIA) JULY 1895. SON OF HARRIS (AARON) CUCKLE (1859-1906) AND SOPHIA CUCKLE (1863-1932), AT 18…

Taylor, William (Eli)

…AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND SAW ACTION IN THE EVACUATION OF ANTWERP. HIS ACCOUNT IS DESCRIBED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 16/10/1914 * HE DIED OF WOUNDS AT…

Dick, James Walter

…Son of the late William Robert Gordon and Marion Gordon. Born at Edinburgh, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial HAMMOND, ARTHUR WILLIAM (32), Carpenter, S.S. Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Son of…

Dawson, Harold

BORN KEYINGHAM 1879. ONLY SON OF THOMAS & SARAH DAWSON, HULL CITY ASYLUM COTTAGES, WILLERBY. A SHOP ASSISTANT AND MILITARY BUYER. HE MARRIED ON 18/10/1904. HIS WIFE BEATRICE TOTTIE, LIVED…

Needler, Herman

…ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 10/12/1915, AGED 19 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7 INCHES TALL, 36 INCH CHEST, AND “GOOD” PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. TRAINED AS A BOMBER. ARRIVED…

Blackburn, Edward

…PARADE, CHAPMAN STREET, HULL, AND 98, BRIGHT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS THE SON OF SARAH & JOHN EDWARD BLACKBURN, OF ALEXANDRA AVENUE, GRANGE STREET, HULL. HE LEFT…

Wild, Langford

…BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING. SON OF A RETIRED COAL MERCHANT. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND SEVEN SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS AN ACCOUNTS CLERK FOR MR SCOTT, ACCOUNTANTS, HULL. FATALLY WOUNDED AT YPRES….

Needley, Harold Edward

…JOHNSON, AT ST ANDREWS CHURCH, HULL, ON 24/08/1912 AND LIVED AT 86, KENT STREET, HULL, WITH THEIR SON, ARTHUR. A MACHINIST. HE WORKED FOR THE HULL RADIATOR COMPANY. HE WAS…