Regiment: MM S/S Polandia (Liverpool)

BORN HULL 1897. SECOND SON OF JAMES & EMILY ANN BILLANY, AT THIS 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. A FORMER SAW MILL WORKER. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE. LOST AT SEA 10/03/1917, AGED 19. HIS ELDER BROTHER JAMES HENRY BILLANY ALSO DIED AT SEA ON 14/10/1917. S.S. Polandia was built at Hamburg in 1898 by Blohm & Voss […]

BORN HULL 1890. BAPTISED IN ST PAULS CHURCH, HULL ON 07/01/1891. SON OF JAMES DICK (1853-1934) & MARY ANN BATEMAN (1853-1931), OF 9 ADAS AVENUE, WATERLOO STREET. A MARINE ENGINNER. HE MARRIED EVERLYN BLANCHE DIXON, AT HULL'S HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, ON 28/02/1917. THEY LIVED AT 22, BLUNDELL STREET, HULL (CWGC NAVAL ADDRESS). LOST BY ENEM […]

BORN DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA 1892. ENLISTED 20/12/1915. SECOND MATE ON THE STEAM SHIP 'POLANDIA'. DIED AT SEA ON 10/03/1917. HE LEFT A YOUNG WIDOW AT THIS ADDRESS. S.S. Polandia was built at Hamburg in 1898 by Blohm & Voss for the Woermann Linie. Her original name was the Paul Woermann and she operated on the East African routes for the […]

BORN SKANOR, SWEDEN 1876. SON OF JON AND HEDVIG JOHNSON. BECAME A NATURALISED BRITISH CITIZEN ON 8TH AUGUST 1905, AGED 28, LIVING AT 3 CRYSTAL AVENUE, SUBWAY STREET. HE WAS MARRIED AND WORKING AS AN ABLE SEAMAN. HUSBAND OF JANE ANN BODDY LIVED AT 5 MCKINLEY AVENUE, ALBEMARLE STREET, HULL (CWGC RECORDS). LOST BY ENEMY ACTION ON 10TH MARCH […]