"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
Commonwealth War Graves
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.
Above is a map of the locations in Hull General Cemetery of the graves of all (currently) known military war dead from the 1st and 2nd world wars. You can also use our burial search tool here.
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