Ship Skipper
8 IRENE CRESCENT, FLINTON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
15/06/1917
Aged
40
BORN LEEDS 10/07/1876. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM ELLISON AND MARY PATTISON, OF YORK. HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE FROM 1908. SKIPPER OF THE TRAWLER 'TOWHEE'. LOST AT SEA, ON 15/06/1917, AGED 40. HE MARRIED CAROLINE WINDBERG, AT HULL, IN 1900. THEY LIVED WITH THEIR TWO SONS AT 21 ST ANDRES STREET, HULL, AND THIS CWGC ADDRESS LIVED ABOV […]
Engineman
BORN HULL 02/02/1879. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY E. FISH, OF THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE MARRIED IN 1903. HIS WIFE FLORENCE SAINT LIVED AT 17 KING STREET, SOUTH SEA, HAMPSHIRE. HE HAD JOINED THE ROYL NAY RESERVE IN 1908. SERVED AS ENGINEMAN ON THE TRAWLER. 'TOHEE' LOST ON ESCORT DUTY, IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, ON 15/06/1917. Built by GOOLE SHIPB […]
141, English Street, Hull
Died on
15/06/1917
Aged
33
Born 1884 • Keighley, Yorkshire. Son of Thomas (Tom) Horner (1853-1905) and Sarah Elizabeth Burd (1854-1915). He was a House Painter (1911 Census). Served as Deckhand, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M. Trawler "Towhee." Lost when ship hit a mine on 17/06/1917, aged 33. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent. (TOWHEE, was a hire […]
BORN HULL 13/12/1896. SON OF CHARLES ALBERT KINSLEY (1873-1929) & ELLEN MORAY MELVIN (1876-1930), OF 126, FLINTON STREET, HULL(1911 CENSUS), 5, HERBERT;S TERRACE, WESTBOURNE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) & 11 FORSYTHE PLACE, CROMARTY, SCOTLAND. (NAVAL RECORDS ADRRESS). SON OF AN ENGINE DRIVER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND TWO SI […]
