People - Regiment: MM S/S "Repton"

BORN GRIMSBY 1895.  SON OF THOMAS SAMUEL RAYTON (1870-1938), THE PILOT, OF GRIMSBY AND ALICE LAX (1873-1935). SERVED AS THIRD ENGINEER, AND AS STEAM TRAWLER, DECKHAND, ON THE ROYAL NAVY TRANSPORT, “REPTON”. THIS WAS  TORPEDOED, IN THE MEDITERANEAN, ON 07/05/1917. HE MARRIED IN 1917. HUSBAND OF ELLEN RAYTON, OF 133, SOMERSET STREET, HULL. HIS DEATH … Read more