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 MARC […]