Spare Hand
BORN HULL 1888. SON OF WILLIAM EDWARD GREENING & LOUISA GREENING AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE WAS A FISHERMAN, LIKE HIS FATHER. SERVED AS A SPAREHAND ON THE STEAM TRAWLER 'SAPHIRE'. LOST AT SEA ON 28/02/1915, AGED 27. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. The Hull steam trawler SAPPHIRE was on passage from Iceland […]