BORN MICHIGAN, USA, 1894. SON OF MARGARET WOLFUNBERG, USA. HE WORKED AS A HORSEMAN, ON THE HULL STEAM SHIP, “ETONIAN”. LOST AT SEA, ON 23/03/1918, AGED 24. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. RECORDED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR RECORDS.
ETONIAN SS was a 6,515 grt defensively-armed British Merchant Ship of the Leyland Line. Built as “Chicago” 1901 and transferred from Wilson´s & Furness to the Leyland Line. On the 23rd March 1918 when on route from Liverpool for Boston, Mass. she was torpedoed by German submarine U-61 and sunk when 34 miles S by E ½ E from Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. 7 lives lost. Owned by F. Leyland & Co, Liverpool. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?11120
First name:
ALFRED
Regiment:
Rank:
Horseman
Date Died
23/03/1918
Place died:
TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK
Age:
24
