Sultan, Harry

BORN HULL 21/02/1895. SON OF SOLOMAN & LATE MARY JANE SULTAN, OF 110, ST MARKS STREET, HULL AND 3, EXCELSIOR TERRACE, VICTOR STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).

HE HAD SURVIVED THE BATTLES OF HELIGO BIGHT & JUTLAND WHEN A HALF TON, SHELL WENT THROUGH THE SIDE OF HIS SHIP, BUT NEVER EXPLODED.

HE WAS LOST AT SEA, ON HMS “PHEASANT”, 01/03/1917, AGED 24.

HE IS RECORDED ON ST MARYS, LOWGATE CHURCH, MEMORIAL & ON ST MARKS STREET MEMORIAL, HULL.

HIS BROTHER WALTER SERVED WITH THE EYR & SISTER GERTRUDE SERVED ASA NURSE.

HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 8TH MARCH 1917. *
Note: ABRAHAM SULTON IS LISTED ON HULL TECHNICAL ROLL OF HONOUR, PARK STREET, HULL.

HMS Pheasant, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Glasgow in 1916 and owned at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British destroyer of 1025 tons. On March 1st, 1917, HMS Pheasant was sunk by a mine from the German submarine U-80 (Alfred von Glasenapp), west of the Orkney Islands (Barrage 39). 88 persons were lost.

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First name:
HARRY
Military Number:
J/9290
Rank:
Leading Seaman
Date Died
01/03/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
24
110, ST MARKS STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK