BORN LEEDS 10/07/1876. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM ELLISON AND MARY PATTISON, OF YORK. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE FROM 1908. SKIPPER OF THE TRAWLER ‘TOWHEE’. LOST AT SEA, ON 15/06/1917, AGED 40. HE MARRIED CAROLINE WINDBERG, AT HULL, IN 1900. THEY LIVED WITH THEIR TWO SONS AT 21 ST ANDRES STREET, HULL, AND THIS CWGC ADDRESS LIVED ABOVE. HE LEFT £142 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW MAUD.COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL.
TRAWLER ‘TOWHEE’
Built by GOOLE SHIPBUILDING & REPAIRING CO. LTD., GOOLE (Dutch River) for Kelsall Brothers & Beeching, Hull as the TOWHEE (H987); Yard No 111; Launch Date: 04/1908; Completed June 1908; Requisitioned by Admiralty in WW1; Lost without trace while on escort duty in the English Channel on 15 June 1917
Also reported as ´probable struck a mine´ & ´Skipper Ellison RNR´
James Webster, 18 Argyle Square , Wick. Lost at sea on HMT Towhee, 15th June, 1917. 11 lives were lost. (Fisherman’s War)
Ellison, Frederick Thomas
First name:
FREDERICK THOMAS
Regiment:
Military Number:
30923
Rank:
Ship Skipper
Date Died
15/06/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
40
