BORN HULL 14/11/1886. MARRIED HULL 1909. WIFE ETHEL (BIRD) HOLMES ABOVE. SON OF WILLIAM & THEODOSIA HOLMES – 18 LINCOLN ST. SHIP MINED IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND THREE CHILDREN. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 22ND MARCH 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
The British RN trawler Agate was sunk on 14th March 1918 by a mine from the German submarine UC-71 (Walter Warzecha), near the Royal Sovereign Lightvessel. 4 were killed. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?80292
People on board HMT AGATE123 1. COOK, WILLIE (34), Deck Hand (no. 98SD), HMT Agate, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/03/1918, Husband of Alice Sarah Cook, of 49, Sydney St., Brightlingsea, Colchester, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 2. HOLMES, JAMES (32), Deck Hand (no. 6443DA), HMT Agate, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/03/1918, Husband of Ethel Holmes, of 106, Goulton St., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 3. HYSLOP, ROBERT (33), Trimmer (no. 3474TS), HMT Agate, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/03/1918, Son of Richard and Margaret Hyslop, of IO, Oxford St., Kirkintilloch, Glasgow. Native of Glasgow, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 4. PETERSON, HUGH (23), Seaman (no. 1325L), HMT Agate, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/03/1918, Son of Hugh and Margaret Peterson, of Sound Road Cottages, Sound, Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?80292
