Memorial

Booklet on German raids December 16th 1914

West Hartlepool

Memorial Name: Booklet on German raids December 16th 1914 (W111.077)

NEWMP Ref No.: W111.077

Parish: West Hartlepool

Which War:

1914-18

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Published by Sage, 6 Lynn Street, Bookseller and Stationer, West Hartlepool; republished by Printability Publishing, Wolviston, and printed by Atkinson Print, 11 Lower Church Street, Hartlepool.

Memorial Description:

Booklet “The German Raid on the Hartlepools, December 16th, 1914.”

The front cover depicts two ships and a lighthouse.

The first two printed pages tell the story of the raids.

The rest of the book is of single page photographs showing people involved and the damage done.

At the back is a list of those killed at Hartlepool in two columns.

Names:

9 names, ranks and regiments of soldiers;
64 names, ages and address of those killed.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. On the back cover is printed:
“Lest We Forget” This historic booklet has been re-printed for the first time in 75 years, recording the day when, on Wednesday, 16th December, 1914, German battleships slyly crept out of the early morning mist to open fire on the slumbering inhabitants of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool. The first soldier – Private T. Jones – to lose his life on British soil at the outbreak of war, along with 118 other unsuspecting souls perished in the Hartlepools that cold, winter’s morning as a result of the cowardly raid. World War I had well and truly started.”

Sources:

The German Raid on the Hartlepools, December 16th, 1914.

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Names Documents:

HARTLEPOOL      Booklet

 

LIST OF KILLED AT HARTLEPOOL

First column

 Soldiers

 Corporal Liddle, 18th Batt., Durham L.I.

 Lance-Corporal Clark, “      “

 Private T. Jones      “      “

  “       L. Turner     “      “

  “       W. Rogers     “      “

  “       T. Minks      “      “

 Gunner Houston, Durham R.G.A.

  “      Spence         “

 Sapper Little, Durham Royal Engineers.

                             Age  Residence

  Allen, Annie               25   14 Victoria Place

  Ambrose, Robert Lumley     33   65 Everard Street

  Ashcroft, Edwin            29   19 Penrith Street

  Austrin, Beart Beaumont    32   4 May Street

  Avery, William Gordon      49   7 Victoria Place

  Backham, Cuthbert John     42   Darlington Terrace

                                  West Hartlepool

  Binns, Samuel              68   21 Ramsey Street, W. H’pool.

  Bunter James               32   13 Commercial Street,

                                  Middleton

  Chappell, William          15   18 Slake Tce., Middleton

  Churcher, William Hubert   26   29 Clarendon Road

                                  West Hartlepool

  Clark, John                54   5 Kinburn Street

  Clarke, Charles Stephen    25   47 Sheriff St., W.H’pool.

  Cornforth, Charles         63   3 Lilly Street

  Cornforth, Polly           23   “      “

  Cornforth, Jane Ann        17   2 Lilly Street

  Cox, John Garbutt          26   2 Durham Street

  Corner, Annie              37   1 Dock Street

  Cook, James                37   28 Rokeby Street

  Crake, John William        15   19 Woods Street

  Cressy, Albert Edwin       29   48 Turnbull Street

                                  West Hartlepool

  Dixon, George Edward       14   30 William Street

  Dixon, Margaret Ellen      8    “      “

  Dixon, Albert              7    “      “

  Dring, George              47   30 Elliott Street

                                  West Hartlepool

  Evans, John                32   30 Charlotte Street

                                  West Hartlepool

  Geipel, Ethel Mary         36   17 Cliffe Terrace

  Hamilton, Jessie           21   50 Malton Street

  Harper, Elizabeth Agnes    49   4 Moor Terrace

———————————————–      

Column 2

  Harris, Etta               30   “Ivyholm” South Cres.

  Healey, John               63   18 Hart Street

  Herbert, Selina            3    5 William Street

  Hodgson, John              62   58 Stephenson Street

  Houston, William Stephen   22   75 Union Road

  Hudson, Charles William    21   43 Mary Street

  Jones, Theophilus          29   44 Ashgrove Avenue

                                  West Hartlepool

  Kay, Annie Mabel           34   “Rockside”, Cliffe Terr.

  Kay, Florence Josephine    32   “      “

  Lee, Clementina            25   6 Victoria Place

  Leighton, James Shepherd   56   16 Clifton Street

  Liddle, Alix Oliffe        25   Linden, Av, Darlington

  Little, Samuel             20   8 Clyde Street, Jarrow

  Marshall, Catherine        87   41 Mary Street

  Measor, Christopher        10   11 Wells Yard

  Minks, Thomas              25   Melbourne House

                                  Rowlands Gill

  Pearson, John William      25   (s.s. Phoebe)  of

                                  Robin Hood’s Bay

  Ramsay, Charles Leonard C. 37   24 Osborne Road

                                  West Hartlepool

  Redshaw, Margaret Ann      47   50 Watson Street

  Rogers, Walter             25   South View,

                                  Bishop Auckland

  Spence, Robert             22   19 Prissick Street

  Stewart, Stanley           6    20 William Street

  Stringer, Ethel            12   10 William Street

  Sullivan, Daniel           47   3 Harrison Street

                                  West Hartlepool

  Theaker, Richard           23   63 Turnbull Street

                                  West Hartlepool

  Turner, Leslie Dobson      23   Dalmeny House

                                  Rowlands Gill

  Unthank, Frank             14   24 Woods Street

  Watson, Mary Elizabeth     40   164 Hart Rd, H’pool

  Wainwright, Freda          19   10 Henry Street

  Watt, Amy                  22   2 Marine Crescent

  Whitecross, Peter          8    34 William Street

  Whitecross, John Matthew   6    “      “

  Williams, Ivy              31   8 Beaconsfield Square

  Woods, Samuel Norman       19   18 Lumley Street

  Wright, William            41   4 Crook Street

  Young, Bertie              13   7 Princess St., Middleton.

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