BORN HULL 18/06/1882. SON OF WILLIAM JOSEPHUS MATSON (1851-1898) AND JANE CARTER (1851-1921), OF 6 CYDE TERRACE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). MARRIED ON 09/04/1905, HUSBAND OF ALICE GERTRUDE LEWIS (1888-1930). THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN. A GENERAL LABOURER.
HE SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY, AS TRIMMER, ON THE STEAM TRAWLER, “WINDWARD HO”. LOST AT SEA, ON 09/05/1917, AGED 34. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 81, WITTY STREET, HULL (NAVAL ADDRESS).
The fishing vessel, WINDWARD HO (H 692) was a British registered steam trawler of 226grt. On the 9th May 1917, when 3 miles S from Peterhead, she was mined and sunk by German submarine UC-40 (Alfred Arnold). 8 lives lost including Skipper.
CREW LOST ON WINDWARD HO (H692),
BURNHAM, George (45), 31 Rosamond St, Hull. Cook
EDDOM, George (46), Penlee House, Eton St, Hull. Skipper
FOOT, William (25), 7 Myrtle-Grove, Somerset St, Hull. Sparehand
MATSON, William (34), 81 Witty St, Hull. Trimmer
STONES, Albert (27), 58 Haltemprice St, Hull. 2nd/Engineer
WATTS, William (45), 1 Robinson-Place, Princes St, Hull. Sparehand
WILSON, William (37), 9 Windsor-Ter, Harrow St, Hull. Bosun
WRIGHT, Joseph (43), 8 Subway St, Hull. Chief Engineer
