The War Dead Of Hull General Cemetery
Unquestionably it is better that the heroes who sleep in scattered and isolated graves where they fell in action should be gathered together in war cemeteries…
The Hull daily Mail
In Hull approximately 70000 men served in the armed forces, and of that total at least 9000 were killed as well as a considerable amount of wounded. As such, along with large and small communities throughout the land, Hull wanted its civic war memorial.
But the desire to visit the grave of the loved one was a desire that could not be assuaged by the pomp and ritual demanded by public ceremony. In private communion with the grave, the grieving relative could allow emotion, be it sorrow, anger or simply resignation, to be expressed openly without the conduit of ritual.
The war grave was that place to lose oneself in grief, knowing that the others who would be there, would have shared a knowledge, an affinity with you if you sobbed, cried, or even howled and cursed in your grief.
World War One
- 01) Herbert John Alexander – 17/10/1916
- 02) William Henry Blackbourn – 15/11/1916
- 03) Ernest Cobby – 19/02/1918
- 03) Walter Harold Cobby – 03/11/1916
- 04) William Donaldson – 16/11/1916
- 05) Adrian Farrell – 23/08/1916
- 06) John Hodgson – 15/06/1920
- 07) John Hodgson – 09/09/1916
- 08) William Henry Hotchkin – 09/03/1918
- 09) Richard Ethelbert Johnson – 29/10/1915
- 10) Vincent Knowles; – 14/10/1915
- 11) Arthur Marr – 12/11/1918
- 12) George Spence – 29/05/1918
- 13) Gilbert West – 12/11/1918
World War Two
- 14) Frederick Baker – 28/12/1941
- 15) Ernest Duff – 08/11/1939
- 16) Harold Evers – 06/08/1940
- 17) Gilbert Farrell – 11/08/1942
- 18) James Hargreaves – 01/12/1939
- 19) Sydney Hutton – 02/03/1940
- 20) Joseph Kemp – 17/02/1943
- 21) Frank Marston – 02/10/1947
- 22) Harry Mather – 20/02/1944
- 23) Peter Mawe – 31/12/1944
- 24) Otto Meggitt – 31/03/1941
- 25) Ernest Roberts – 04/04/1942
- 26) George Wood – 16/02/1944
- 27) Arthur Wrigglesworth – 01/07/1941