BORN HULL 04/07/1894. SON OF ROYAL NAVAL SKIPPER, GEORGE NOEL (NOWELL) 1857-1916, & CORNELIA JANE SYMS (1859-1930), OF 7, FLINTON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). A SAWMILL LABOURER. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE. BURIED AT SEA, AGED 23. ONE OF THREE BROTHERS KILLED IN THE WAR. HIS FATHER WAS INTERRED AT THE START OF THE WAR, AND DIED AT EMDEN GERMAN HOSPITAL, ON 11/07/1916. AGED 59.
Jan Lettens 12/08/2010 On July 31st, 1918, the British navy drifter HMD City Of Liverpool was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-71 (Walter Warzecha), in the Downs off South Foreland. 10 persons were killed. People on board People on board HMT CITY OF LIVERPOOL123 1. BROWN, ARTHUR JAMES (37), Engineman (no. 537ES), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Son of Martin and Elizabeth Brown, of Martham; husband of Alma Amelia Brown, of 5, Bracey’s Buildings, Martham, Gt. Yarmouth, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 2. BURROUGHS, FREDERICK JAMES (23), Engineman (no. 1557TS), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Son of Sidney Robert and Laura Emma Burroughs, of 19, Grove Rd., Lowestoft, Suffolk, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 3. BUSS, GEORGE (18), Deck Hand (no. 20746DA), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Son of Richard Martin Buss and Emma Jane Buss, of 7, Jubilee St., Brighton, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 4. CRAMPTON, ALFRED , Deck Hand (no. 18020DA), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 5. DEWLING, MOSES (24), Deck Hand (no. 10559DA), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Son of David and Louise Dewling, of Trouty, Trinity, Newfoundland, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 6. GREEN, CHARLES ARTHUR (38), Skipper, HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Son of Robert and Ann Green, of Caister-on-Sea; husband of Margaret May Brown (formerly Green), of 8, Tramway Terrace, Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 7. HOLMES, JOHN THOMAS (34), Second Hand (no. 36DA), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Son of John Holmes, of 229, Earsham St., Sheffield; husband of Tyler Florence Rennie (formerly Holmes), of 143, Kent St., Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 8. MURRAY, KENNETH (27), Leading Deck Hand (no. 3304A), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Son of Malcolm and Catherine Murray, of 7, Shader Point, Stornoway, Ross-shire, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 9. NOEL, HERBERT , Deck Hand (no. 5813DA), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 10. REID, GEORGE (38), Deck Hand (no. 19602DA), HMT City Of Liverpool, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/07/1918, Son of John and Margaret Reid, of 19, Crovie, Gamrie, Gardenstown, Banff, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?145607
