Ellerington, Herbert Thomas

BORN NORTH FRODINGHAM, DRIFFIELD 1893. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM ELLERINGTON (1867-1919) & CLARA DOROTHY RODGERS (1868-1938), OF 1, AIGBURTH AVENUE, ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 29. MASSEY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A SHIP STEWARD. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.

HE WAS A MERCHANT SAILOR, LIVING AT 33, CLYDE STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (REGISTER OF SEAMAN ADDRESS). SERVED ON THE STEAM SHIP “TREWYN” LOST AT SEA ON 24/03/1916, AGED 23

COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON AND THE WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.

HIS BROTHER, REGINALD RODGERS ELLERINGTON (1890-1918), BORN IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 9143, 15/17TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS,ON 30/06/1918. ANOTHER BROTHER, JAMES CRESSEY ELLERINGTON WAS LOST ON THE S/S “SAN FLORENTINO”, IN WW2, ON 02/10/1941, AGED 49.

The steamship Trewyn, with a cargo of ore from Algiers for Middlesborough, passed Gibralter on March 25th 1916, and was never heard of again. The steamship Governor sighted some wreckage and a lifebuoy bearing the names Trwyn – St. Ives about a week later, from which it was assumed that the ship had propably been sunk by a German submarine