BORN 1869. SON OF ROBERT & ARABELLA WISE – 2 SAXON VILLAS, EASTBOURNE STREET. HIS BROTHER ARTHUR DIED ON SAME SHIP WHEN IT WAS SUNK BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE. WALTER’S WIFE EMILY LIVED ABOVE. THE TWO BROTHER’S PHOTOGRAPHS APPEAR IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL 24TH JUNE 1915. *
Argyll (H 923) or Argyle (both names used), built by Mackie & Thomson, Govan in 1906 and owned at the time of her loss by Gt. Northern Steamship Fishing Co. Ltd., Hull, was a British trawler of 280 tons. On June 15th, 1915, Argyll was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-11 (Walter Gottfried Schmidt), 12 miles ESE of Harwich. 7 persons were lost.
First name:
WALTER HERBERT
Regiment:
Rank:
Deck Hand
Date Died
15/06/1915
Place died:
Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK
Age:
46
3 EBOR AVENUE, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
