WW1 Royal Field Artillery Private. Photo taken by J. S. Bullen of Grimsby and Louth.
WW1 Royal Field Artillery Private.
Photo taken by J. S. Bullen of Grimsby and Louth.
Note the four overseas chevrons and the two wound stripes.
WW1 Royal Field Artillery Private.
Photo taken by J. S. Bullen of Grimsby and Louth.
Note the four overseas chevrons and the two wound stripes.

An Imagined Blue Plaque for Fred Bacon (1874–1966), Founder of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District YMCA
Grimsby

“I wrote about this being my grandfather's boat - he was the engineer. It was first registered as INS 11 and is pronounced Pit-gay-vnay not Pit-gav-enny.”
Libby Lamb, 21 October 2026

“My grandfather was the engineer on this drifter when she was fishing out of Lossiemouth and then working as a minesweeper at Scapa Flow from 1915.”
Libby Lamb, 20 October 2026

“Stuart sent me a framed photo of the above photo. He was a dear friend of many years through first knowing his dear wife and lovely son.It is with great saddnessto learn of Stuarts death we emailed regularly ,he was a humble lovely person.I am chronically sick and bedbound ,Stuart's emails were always a pleasure to read and reply to.He was a nan of great integrity and humilityand the world has been better for him being part of itHow lovely ifa BleuePlaque could be erected fir himit is richly deserved.A lovely man who will be n greatly missed”
Cathy James, 19 October 2026

Grimsby or Louth military man with family group cWW1.

A WW1 Lincolnshire Regiment soldier and his mate, an Australian soldier.

Grimsby “Chums” Camp, Brocklesby, 1914

WW1 Great Central Railway; women workers at Grimsby

10th (‘Grimsby Chums’) Service Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment; young soldiers training at Brocklesby Park 1915

Grimsby road workers by J. S. Bullen 1927