BORN YORK, 12/02/1899. SECOND SON OF CHARLES BIELBY (1839-1904). HIS MOTHER EMMA BIELBY LIVED AT 60, PROVIDENCE ROW, HULL (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED ON 18/05/1915. SERVED AS ROYAL NAVY SIGNALMAN. DIED IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, ON 20/01/1918, AGED 17. COMMEMORATED ON THE PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVON. HIS ONLY BROTHER, GEORGE BIELBY, SURVIVED THE WAR
SS Louvain, built as a passenger ship by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1897 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British armed boarding steamer of 1830 tons. On January 20th, 1918, Louvain used as a troop transport, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-22 (Carl Bünte) in the Kelos Strait, in the Aegean Sea. 224 persons were lost.
First name:
CHARLES
Regiment:
Military Number:
39612
Rank:
Signalman
Date Died
20/01/1918
Place died:
Sea
Age:
17
