There are two memorial plaques fixed to the wall either side of the entrance to Goxhill Village Hall. Facing the hall, left-hand plaque is dedicated to those who lost their life in the Second World War. The plaque on the right names the men who fell in the First World War (see left).

In January 2009, a 90th anniversary weekend was held at the memorial hall.

The inscription on the First World War plaque reads:

OUR GLORIOUS DEAD 1914 - 1918.

CHARLES ATKIN                    ALBERT B. JANNEY         
GARNETT ATKIN                    ARTHUR KIRK
THOMAS BESWICK                    TOM KIRK
THOMAS E. BREWER                    ERNEST LAMMING
NORMAN R. BREWER                    WILLIAM LAMMING
WILLIAM COCKERLINE                    JOSEPH H. MAPLETHORPE
ROBERT DRINKALL. D.C.M.                    SIDNEY MARRIOTT
JOSEPH DUNN                    HENRY MAWER. D.C.M.
FRANK DUNWELL                    HERBERT MOORE
HERBERT FARROW                    JOHN NEAVE
JOHN FOULSTON                    HENRY ROBERTS
GEORGE FROST                    FRED ROE
GEORGE HOWSON                    WILLIAM SHORT
FRED HUNTER                    HERBERT SMITH
WILLIAM WILLIAMSON

CHARLES ATKIN
Private 240816, 1st/5th Batallion Lincolnshire Regiment
Died of wounds: 22 September 1918
Born in Grimsby
Son of Robinson Atkin
Resident of Grimsby
Enlisted in Goxhill
Buried: Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension

Background
In 1901, Charles' family lived at East Marsh, Goxhill. Charles' Waltham-born father - Robinson Atkin - was was 28 and worked as a farm horseman. Mother Emma, 27, came from Barnoldby-le-Beck. Eight-year-old Charles had three younger siblings - Elsie May (three), Arthur (one) and Harold (seven months) - all born in Goxhill. But there is some sort of mystery here. The records state that Charles and Emma married in 1897, when Charles would have been about four or five. So I wondered if Charles was illegitimate. However, I had no success with this line of investigation. But on checking our Charles' father, Robinson Atkin, it seems that, although he is 24 when he married Emma Ellis in 1897, this was a second marriage. Charles had previously married Annie Maria Seward in the summer of 1892. Annie died the following year at the age of 24. This is the same year as Charles' birth, so it may be that Annie died in childbirth or soon after.

At some point following the census, the family moved from Goxhill to Stallingbrough and then to The Mount, Keelby, where Robinson worked as a herdsman. By the time of the 1911 census, Charles was still  farm labourer. The size of the family had been swelled thanks to the addition of three more daughters - Doris (born in Goxhill), Kathleen Mary and Lilian Gladys (both born in Stallingborough).

Charles may have married - there is a record of Charles Atkin marrying Edith Neil in 1917.

GARNET ATKIN
Private 11136, 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died of wounds: 16 February 1916
Son of William and Maria Atkin
Born in Thoresway or Thorganby
Resident of Grimsby
Enlisted in Goxhill
Buried: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium

This is the second largest Commonweath War Graves cemetery on Belgium with more than 10,000 burials.

The 1901 census spells Garnet with one T, as do military records. However the plaque in the St Nicolas Church ends the surname with double T

Background
Garnet was born into a large Lincolnshire family in 1894. His father, William, was a brick manufacturer from Ludford. His mother, Maria, hailed from Bishopbridge. The couple had at least 14 children. By the time of the 1901 census, the family had recently moved to Goxhill and were living at Church End. However, the birthplaces of the William and Maria's children reveal that the family had been constantly on the move until about 1900 when they settled in Goxhill. Eldest son, 12-year-old John Ellis (illegitimate?), was born in Benneworth. George (nine) was born in Ludford and John (eight) in North Willingham. Next came Garnet born in Thorganby, followed by five-year-old Ernest and Mabel Maria (three) who were both born in Thoresway. The youngest - 10-month-old Evelyn - was born in Goxhill.

In the following 10 years or so, the Atkins had another six children. - Ivy Phyllis, Lawrence, Lilian, Thomas, Marjory, Sydney, Herbert and Gwendoline.

On 5 September 1914, 20-year-old Garnet enlisted for the duration of the war. He was 5 ft 6 ½ inches tall and had hazel eyes and brown hair. On enlistment he gave his place of birth as Thoresway near Louth. [This contradicts the 1901 and 1911 censuses which stated he was born in Thorganby.] Garnet had completed a five-year apprenticeship on the railwqays and was working as a railway locomotive cleaner when he enlisted. His next of kin were his father and mother, as well as his brothers 'Jack' and Ernest - all living in Goxhill. Garnet was declared fit for military service in Grimsby.

On 15 February 1916, Private Atkin was in action and received a gunshot wound to his head, resulting in compound fracture of his skull. He died the next day at the 10th Casualty Clearing Station.

As was military custom, his property was returned to his mother following his death. Army authorities returned two devotional books and two rosaries [in his Army records he records his religion as Wesleyan], his identity disc, a knife, one ring, a crucifix, a pipe and a lighter, one belt, one silver chain and two cap badges. He also had seven photographs, two Christmas cards and three postcards. These personal items were sent to his mother, Maria, at Thorpe Villa, Thornton Road, Goxhill.

Following her son's death, the military authorities required Garnett's mother to list his siblings, their ages and where they were living at the time. She lists the following:

William - 30 - Worlaby
George - 28 - Winterton
John - 27 - Goxhill
Ernest - 23 - Goxhill
Lawrence (?) - 16 - Goxhill
Thomas - 12 - Goxhill
Sydney - 9 - Goxhill
Herbert - 7 - Goxhill
Mabel Maria - 21- Sussex
Evelyn - 19 - Hull
Ivy - 17 - Goxhill
Lillian - 14 - Goxhill
Margery - 11 - Goxhill
Gwendoline - 6 - Goxhill

Nephews and nieces: Eddie, Violet and Miller (?).

ARTHUR BESWICK
Private 201936, 4th Batallion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died of wounds: 23 March 1918, aged 21 years
Son of Thomas and Annie Beswick
Born in Croxton
Resident of Hull
Enlisted in Goxhill
Buried: Derinacourt Communal Cemetery

Background
Thomas and Annie Beswick married in 1892. In 1901, the Beswick family lived at North End, Goxhill. Father, Thomas, 33, came from Croxton and worked as a brickyard labourer. Mother, Annie, 28, hailed from Lincoln. Children, Mary (eight), Ethel (six) and Arthur (four) were all born in the village of Croxton. The family's youngest child at the time of the census was one-year-old Daisy, who was born in Goxhill. This suggests the family had moved to Goxhill at some time in the late 1890s.

When the 1911 census was taken, Thomas was employed as a shepherd. Still living at home was 16-year-old Ethel who worked as a day servant. Arthur, aged 14, was a shop assistant. Daisy, 11, Florie, nine, Dorothy May, nine, and Thomas Harold, five, were all at school. There were also two younger children - three-year-old Eva and William Charles, one.

At the time of enlistment, Arthur lived and worked in Hull.

Although born in Croxton, Arthur doesn't appear on the Croxton memorial. However, his cousin, William Clowes Beswick, does appear on the Croxton memorial, as well as the Laceby memorial.

Arthur's father, Thomas, and William's father, George, were brothers.

THOMAS E BREWER
Not on church memorial

NORMAN R BREWER
Not on church memorial

WILLIAM COCKERLINE
Private 15616, 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Died of wounds: 26 June 1916, aged 31 years
Son of George and Leah Cockerline, Weeton, Hull
Resident of Hull
Buried: Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension

Background
The Cockerline family were from an isolated part of the East Riding of Yorkshire between Withernea and Sunk Island. William was born in 1885 in Weeton in the parish of Patrington and was named after is grandfather. William's father, George, came from Withernsea and his mother Leah from Hedon. George worked as a foreman, warden and a farm bailiff in the area for many years. In 1901, William lived with his parents at Ivy Cottage, Sunk Island, and worked as a 'ploughboy'. William had several brothers and sisters - Grace, George, Ada Sophia, Lily, John, Emily and Eva.

In 1909, William married Annie Elizabeth Hunter, who came from Ryhill.

Their eldest son George was born in 1910 at Goxhill Marsh. At the time of the 1911 census, Annie's 19-year-old sister, Gertrude Dunn, lived with the family. The couple went on to have at least three more sons - Albert (1911), John (1913) and Cyril (1914) - before farmer William enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regiment.

Note: Various transcription errors hindered progress researching William. His birth parish is recorded in indexes as Paddington, when the document clearly shows Patrington! Other records suggest his was born in Weston, Leeds, rather than Weeton in Patrington parish.

ROBERT DRINKALL DCM
Serjeant 9884, 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Killed in action: 7 June 1915, aged 23 years
Born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire
Son of John and Ellen Drinkall, North End, Goxhill
Resident of Lincoln
Enlisted in Goxhill
Commemorated: Menin Gate, Ypres

Background
Robert was the son of the John William Drinkall - the Goxhill village policeman. Police Sergeant Drinkall and his wife Ellen moved from Benington in Lincolnshire to Goxhill in late 1900 or early 1901. When the census was taken in 1901, the family lived at  6 Main Road, Goxhill. At that time, Policeman John Drinkall was 42 and his wife Ellen, 38. The couple had nine children: Betsy (12), Harry (10), Robert (nine), Elsie (seven), Arthur (five), twins Edward and Edith (both four), Mary (two) and Frederick (eight months).

To date I have not found out why he was awarded the DCM.

JOSEPH DUNN
Sapper 164772, 509th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Killed in action: 21 March 1918, aged 35 years
Born in Goxhill
Son of the late George and Mary Dunn, Goxhill
Resident of Hull
Enlisted in Goxhill
Commemorated: Arras Memorial

The 1st London Field Company, Royal Engineers (Territorial Force) was renamed as 509th Field Company, Royal Engineers in 1917. By February 1918, the 6th Division was manning the Lagnicourt Sector. On 22 March 1918, the Germans launched their Spring Offenisve and drove the division back with 3,900 casualties out of its 5,000 infantry. The divisional history records that: 'The field companies suffered heavily and rendered good service as infantry.' The company war diary for March 1918 stops after the 20th - the day before Private Dunn died.

Backgound
Joseph Dunn was born in around 1882 in Goxhill to George and Mary Dunn, who were also from Goxhill. In 1891, the family lived at North End. Father George (47) was an agricultural labourer, while son Alfred (18 in 1891) was a gardener's assistant and 15-year-old George was a groom. Charles (12), Joseph (nine) and Thomas (six) were at school. Also living with the family was young Joseph's grandmother - Ann Dunn, aged 87. By 1901, 18-year-old Joseph had left home and was working as a horse carter on a farm at Church End, Goxhill, where he also boarded. The 1911 census reveals a change in employment for Joseph. Although still living in Goxhill, he had foresaken agricultural work to be a ship's plater. Living with him were his 66-year-old widowed mother and his 26-year-old younger brother, Thomas, who worked as a general labourer.

FRANK DUNWELL
Private 22634, 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Officially declared killed in action: 23 October 1916, aged 34 years
Son of Elizabeth Mary Dunwell
Born in Ulceby
Resident of Grimsby
Enlisted in Goxhill
Commemorated: Ploegsteert Memorial

Background
In 1901, Frank lived with two of his brothers and one of his sisters at Soutfield in Ulceby - Davy (24 and single) was a shepherd, Elizabeth (23 and single) was a housekeeper, Herbert (19 and single) was a horseman and Frank (18) was a guardman.

Davy and Elizabeth were both Barrow upon Humber, while Herbert and Frank in Ulceby.

At some point, the four of the young Dunwells set up home at 77 Wintringham Road in Grimsby - Davy, Elizabeth, Herbert and Frank. In 1911, Herbert and Frank were both carters.

Frank was living at 77 Wintringham Road in Grimsby and working as a carter when he enlisted at the age of 33. Still single, he named his mother, Elizabeth Mary Dunwell, as his next of kin. On enlistment on 9 April 1916, he gave his mother's address as 77 Wintingham Road. However, at some point while he was serving, she moved to Norfolk House, North End, Goxhill.

Documents dated 4 September 1919, reveal that his brother, Davy (43) still lived at 77 Wintringham Road. Another brother, Samuel (39) was in Scunthorpe and Herbert (38) was in the Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield.

Elizabeth received Frank's memorial scroll in July 1920 and acknowledged receipt of his British War and Victory Medals on 23 November 1923.

While there isn't much more in the records about Frank, there is a considerable amount about his brother Herbert, who also served and was in the Wharncliffe War Hospital in 1919.

Herbert was a year older than his brother Frank. A labourer by trade, he married Bertha (nee Birkett) at Leeds Register Office on 9 January 1911. A short while later, on 22 March 1911, the couple's first child - Frank - was born. Bertha had been about six months pregnant when she married Herbert. Daughter Beatrice came along on 10 April 1912 and then another son, Herbert, on 11 February 1915. A month after the birth of his third child, 32-year-old Herbert joined the Northumberland Fusiliers in Newcastle upon Tyne. He gave his home address as 12 Leicester Street, Leeds.

Herbert was posted to France in October 1915, but returned home two months later. At this point, he transferred to the Labour Corp. His next posting was to India - a posting which he didn't like - where he remained for two years.

Herbert would have been in India when his brother Frank was declared dead.

All was not well at home in Leeds for Herbert.

In a written statement in military records, Herbert says that he enlisted in March 1915 and went to France. However, he was invalided home in December of that year. When he arrived back home to his wife, Bertha, in Leeds, he found out that she had been 'carrying on' and 'bringing men home'. However, he gave her another chance. He was then sent to India and was there until August 1918 - a posting he didn't like and said so in letters home. .

On his arrival back in England in September 1918, he was hospitalised in Sheffield until October.

He returned to Leeds on sick leave on 3 October 1918. When he got home, his wife told him that she was well he stated that to him she looked 'all right'. While he had been in India, Bertha had written to him to tell him she had been ill - with an abscess in her head. He had written back saying that she should take care of herself.

Herbert was next posted to Ripon camp for a short time before being sent to Leeds as a grave digger.

When he returned to take up the grave-digging post, he found that Bertha was pregnant. Although it couldn't have been his child, Herbert decided to give Bertha yet another chance.

He came home on leave on 28 December 1918 and found that his wife was ill - she had given birth to a boy [named John] who had died after an hour.

Herbert declared that he was 'fool enough' to help her out of trouble and pay her expenses.

At this point she then 'turns round' and tells him that she was in Beckett Street workhouse in Leeds and that she had veneral disease in 1915 and 1918 and had it again.

Herbert took his three children to the same workhouse while he tried to get released from the Army to look after them. Herbert says that if he had known his wife had veneral disease, he would never have given her a chance to go straight.

It seems that he may have got his three children out of the workhouse as he was awarded a pension of 8/3 from 20 February 1919 and an allowance for three children at 4/9 from the same date.

Herbert Dunwell was finally discharged from the Army in January 1920. His papers record that he was 30 per cent disabled and living at 22 Plate Street, York Road, Leeds.

HERBERT FARROW
Private 12/1535, 11th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died of wounds 11 July 1917: aged 34 years
Husband of Rosa Farrow, 18 Westey Square, Boothferry Road, Goole
Born in Goxhill
Resident of Hull
Buried: Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery

Background
Herbert Farrow, the son of Isaac and Mary Farrow, was born in Goxhill in about 1885. In 1891, the family lodged in Goxhill with the Catley family. At 46, agricultural labourer, Isaac was 10 years older than his wife. In addition to Herbert, the couple had two older children - Frederick Isaac, aged 10, and Arthur, aged eight. In 1901, 16-year-old Herbert was employed as a horseman on Beaumoncote Farm in Barton, were he also boarded. In 1905, he married Goole girl, Rosa Audas. Back in 1901, 17-year-old Rosa was working as a live-in domestic housemaid to architect and surveyor, Henry Thorpe, and his Canadian-born wife, Emily. Henry and Rosa's first child, Louisa, was born in Barton in 1907. Son, Herbert was born a year later in East Halton. Ernest was born in 1910 in Barton. In 1911 the family lived at Chapel Farm in Barton, where Herbert was a horseman.

JOHN FOULSTON

GEORGE FROST

GEORGE HENRY HOWSON
Mess Room Steward, Mercantile Marine, SS Tycho (Hull)
Drowned: 20 May 1917, aged 17 years
Son of Albert and Jane Elizabeth Howson, 6 Church Street, Goxhill
Commemorated: Tower Hill Memorial, London

Background
At the time of the 1901 census, baby George was just 10 months old. His parents, Hull-born shipyard labourer, Albert (35), and mother, Jane (33), also from Hull, lived in Workhouse Lane, Goxhill. At the time, George was their youngest child. They also had Albert, aged five, and Elsie, aged three. Both Albert and Elsie were born in Goxhill.

The steamer Tycho was returning to Hull from Bombay in India carrying a general cargo.

On 20 May 1917, about 8 miles from Beachy Head lighthouse, the Tycho was torpedoed without warning by UB40 and began to sink. At 5.10pm, 10 minutes after being hit, the order to abandon ship was given. This was carried out successfully and the vessel went down at 5.20pm. The crew rowed  towards the steamship Forthkerry, which had seen the explosion and was standing by about 200 yards away to pick up the survivors. 

As the Tycho's lifeboats came up alongside the Porthkerry, UB40 discharged another torpedo. This blew up one of the boats, killing the master and 14 men, and sunk the other boat. The Porthkerry was abandoned, with eight casualties, the vessel going down three minutes after being hit. The survivors from both ships were picked up at 7pm by a small coastal steamer which landed at Newhaven at midnight.

One unidentified body was buried in St Margaret's churchyard in Rottingdean in Sussex.

FRED HUNTER

ALBERT BUTLER JANNEY
Private 13/705 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
Regarded as having died: 13 November 1916, aged 24 years
Born in Thornton Curtis
Husband of Florence Janney. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Ann Janney
Resident of Goxhill
Enlisted in Hull
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial

Note: Some of the records list Private Janney as being from Foxhill, Lancs, when it should be Goxhill, Lincs!

Background
Albert Janney was born in Thornton Curtis on 1 September 1892 and christened on 20 November. He married Florence Ethel Spencer in 1915 in Sculcoates, Hull.

In 1914, at the age of 22, he enlisted with the 4th (Hull) Batallion of the East Yorkshire Regiment. On enlistment at the Central Hull Recruiting Office in November 1914, he gave his address as Greengate Lane, Goxhill. Albert named his father, Robert, of Rose Villa, Castledyke West in Barton as next of kin.

ARTHUR KIRK

TOM KIRK
Served on the Blackwhale which was lost by enemy mine on passage between Lerwick and Immingham, 3 January 1918. The crew lost were:

Alfred Beresford, Chief ERA
Tom Kirk, Deckhand
George Wm Gage, Ord seaman
Thomas Albert, Ldg trimmer
Harry Dalton, Ldg trimmer
Harry P Toulson, trimmer
John Sin, trimmer
Samuel Gungey, trimmer
Harry Larvin, trimmer
John E Barley, trimmer
James Enright, trimmer
James S Norris, trimmer

John Edward Barley and Tom Kirk both hailed from Barton upon Humber. Trimmer Barley's name is recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial. In Barton, his name appears on the main war memorial, the St Peter's wall plaque, St Mary's role of honour and the Trinity Methodist wall plaque. His name also appears on a plaque in St Andrew's church in Immingham. The Immingham plaque takes the commemorations of John Edward Barley up to five. Tom Kirk also appears on the Chatham Memorial as well as the Barton memorial. His name is also recorded on the St Peters wall memorial and the St Mary's role of honour. He is also recorded on the wall plaque on the outside of the Goxhill Memorial Hall.

For an account of the Blackwhale, see Barton War Memorial.

ERNEST LAMMING
Corporal 3088, 240710, C Company, 1st/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Killed in action: 20 June 1917, aged 23 years
Born in Melton Ross
Son of Mr W and Mrs F Lamming, Westgate, Station Road, Goxhill
Resident of Grimsby
Enlisted in Goxhill
Buried: Loos British Cemetery

Background
Ernest was born in 1895 in Melton Ross - one of the youngest children in the large family of agricultural foreman, William Lamming (46) and his wife Fanny (44) - from Saxby and Wootton respectively. William and Fanny had married in 1879. Their first child William was born in the same year (see below). In 1901, the family lived in Melton Ross with 10 of their children. The oldest child living at home was 20-year-old Annie who was born in Limber Magna (ie, Great Limber). She worked as a domestic servant. Next was John H Lamming, an 18-year-old railway signal cleaner. He was born in Goxhill. All the other children were born in Melton Ross: farm servant, George (20), Mary (14), Charles (12), Wilfred (10), Arthur (eight), Thomas (seven), Ernest (six) and Eva (four). They also had a boarder - a farm servant named William Holt.

In 1911, Ernest lived at Manor Farm in Immingham where he worked as a wagoner.

Ernest and his brother Thomas enlisted at the same time and therefore had consequential numbers - on enlistment Private Ernest Lamming was 3088 and Private Thomas Lamming was 3089. It isn't clear how many of the other brothers served. There is a medal record for Private John H Lamming of the Yorkshire Light Infantry.

WILLIAM LAMMING

Background
William was the first child and oldest son of William and Fanny Lamming (nee Whitehead). He was born in Thornton Curtis in 1879 - the same year that his parents married. However, it seems that William was, for some time, brought up by Fanny's parents - Benjamin and Elizabeth Whitehead who lived in Goxhill. Certainly, as a two-year-old in 1881, William was living with his grandparents. Benjamin - a threshing machine owner - and Elizabeth were both 53 at the time of the 1881 census. However, the same census reveals that young William's parents were living at Barton Hill Farm with their daughter Annie, aged 10 months. William was the farm foreman at Barton Hill Farm. Grandmother Elizabeth Whitehead died in 1884. Did William stay with his widower grandfather? The 1891 census shows that 64-year-old Benjamin lived alone in Goxhill.

In 1905, William married Elizabeth Andrew who came from Elsham. At the time of the 1911 census, William (31) and Elizabeth (32) lived at 1 Bagnall Terrace in Wakefield, where he worked as a nightwatchman. The couple's two children - Harry (four) and Frank (seven months - born on 10 August 1910) - were both born in Wakefield.

JOSEPH HENRY MAPLETHORPE
Private 12560, 8th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Killed in action: 3 July 1916, aged 21 years
Born in Habrough
Son of George Croft Maplethorpe and Hannah Elizabeth Maplethorpe, Church End, East Halton
Resident of Grimsby
Enlistes in East Halton
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial

Background
Joseph was born in Habrough in 1896 - the son of George and Hannah Maplethorpe. In 1901, the family lived at 29 Anderson Street in Grimsby. Although father George hailed from Habrough, Hannah was from Goxhill. Both 47 at the time of the 1901 census, the couple have seven children living at home with them. Like with so many families of the time, the birth places of the children reveal a life regularly on the move in the area seeking work. Dock labourer, Charles, 25 was born in Ulceby. Anne, 19, was born in Habrough. Next came 14-year-old Edith, who was born at Barnoldby. William, 11, came into the world in Bradley while his younger sister, Mabel (nine) was born a few miles along the road at Irby. As we know, Joseph was born in Habrough while the baby of the family, 10-month-old Herbert, was a Grimbarian.

SIDNEY MARRIOTT

HENRY 'HARRY' MAWER DCM
Private 201820 1st/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
Died: 23 April 1917, aged 37 years
Born in Hull
Enlisted in Goxhill
Commemorated: Arras Memorial

HERBERT MOORE

JOHN 'JACK' NEAVE
Stoker 1st Class, K/36517 Royal Navy, HMS Torrent
Died: 23 December 1917, aged 37 years
Born in Goxhill
Son of Septimus and Elizabeth Neave, Goxhill
Husband of Minnie Neave, Saxby All Saints
Born in Goxhill
Commemorated: Portsmouth Navy Memorial

Background
John was born in Brigg on 29 September 1880. The 1891 census records the Neave family living at Church End in Goxhill. John's Barnetby-born father, 43-year-old Septimus, worked as a carpenter. Wife Elizabeth came from Bonby. All the couple's children are all born in Goxhill - Arthur (14), Elizabeth M (12), John (10), Louise (seven) and Joseph (five).

By 1901, 20-year-old John lived in Sheffield and worked as a railway porter. In 1905, he married Minnie Turner back home in Lincolnshire, where the couple set up home. The couple's first child, William Septimus Neave, was born in Saxby All Saints in 1906. Another move took the young family to Worlaby. However, in 1911, the couple's first child - William Septimus Neave - died at the age of about five. John and Minnie had two more children - Leslie (1912) and Mary (1914).

HMS Torrent was in a convoy of four destroyers along with HMS Surprise, HMS Tornado, HMS Radiant. The four vessels were sailing towards the Netherlands to join up with a Dutch convoy. On 23 December 1917, three of the four British convoy ships - Torrent, Surprise and Tornado - were mined off the Maas light bouy. There was just one survivor from HMS Torrent.

HENRY ROBERTS

FRED ROE
Private 17 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 28 April 1917
Son of William Roe, Brigg Road, Barrow upon Humber
Born in Goxhill
Resident of Grimsby
Enlisted in Barrow
Buried: Crump Trench, British Cemetery, Fampoux

Background
Fred was the son of a Goxhill carpenter, William Roe. William was Goxhill-born and wife Charlotte was from Keelby. All the couple's children were born in Goxhill. In 1891, William lived next door to his father at Church End in Goxhill - 66-year-old Samuel Roe, a retired carpenter, and his wife Eliza (59 from Worlaby) - at Church End, Goxhill. Living with them is 11-year-old Flora - recorded as their daughter. Samuel Roe's occupation was recorded as a wheelwright in the 1856 edition of White's Directory of Lincolnshrie

The 1891 census reveals that William and Charlotte had eight hildren - Samuel (11), John (10), Emily (nine), Harry (seven), Walter (six), Alfred (five), Herbert (three) and one-month old Sarah.

Frederick
Frank

WILLIAM SHORT
Lance Corporal 15173 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died: 6 November 1918
Born in Scunthorpe
Son of Charles and Mary Short
Resident of Grimsby
Enlisted in Barrow-upon-Humber
Buried: Berlaimont Communal Cemetery Extension

HERBERT SMITH

WILLIAM WILLIAMSON
William was born in Hull in about 1870 - the eldest son of William and Emma (nee Richardson) Williamson, who hailed from Kirk Ella and Goxhill respectively. In the early 1870s father William worked as a foundry planer in Hull.