BORN HULL 26/05/1875. SON OF JOSEPH EMANUELLE POUGHER AND MARY JANE POUGHER, AT 67 SOUTH PARADE, ANLABY ROAD, HULL. MARRIED ELIZA LOUIS (DOWELL), OF 12 SOUTH PARADE, HULL AND 6 ICE HOUSE TERRACE, CAMBRIDGE STREET, HULL. PREVIOUSLY A HULL POSTMAN FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. CALLED UP AS A ROYAL NAVY RESERVE, HAVING SERVED IN THE NAVY FOR SOME YEARS. SERVED AS SECOND YEOMAN OF SIGNALS, IN THE ROYAL NAVY. LOST ON HMS ‘HOGUE’, ON THE 22/09/1914, AGED 40. HE LIVED WITH HIS WIFE, ELIZA LOUISE DOWELL, AT 6 ICE HOUSE TERRACE, CAMBRIDGE STREET, HULL. COMMEMORATED ON CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, KENT, UK.
British cruiser from WWI, torpedoed by U-9. The U-9 was responsible for the killing of 1459 man in one single day, sending Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue or a total of 36.000 tons to the bottom. See documents for more info. Jan Lettens 06/06/2009 Some sources say U-9 surrendered at the end of WWI and was broken up in 1919, others say she was scuttled. On September 22nd 1914, U-9 (Ltn. Otto Weddigen) became world famous when she sank three 12.000 ton British cruisers in less than one hour: Aboukir HMS, Cressy HMS and Hogue HMS, with the loss of almost 1400 men. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?56
HIS BROTHER, ARTHUR POUGHER, SERVED AS WILLIAM JOHNSON. ENLISTED IN THE 1ST EYR, IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON THE SOMME, ON 26/09/1916, AGED 26.
