Engineman
5 THE AVENUE CRESCENT, ALBEMARLE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
22/03/1918
Aged
27
BORN KNOTTINGLEY, YORKSHIRE, 30/03/1890. SON OF JAMES THOMAS SWAN (1861-1913) & SARAH ELLEN STANHOPE (1864-1936), OF 285 BOULEVARD, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. MARRIED AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN 1912. HUSBAND OF WIFE ELIZABETH (LODIGUS) SWAN, OF 5 THE AVENUE CRESCENT, ALBEMARLE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). THEIR DAUGHTER IRENE WAS BORN […]
Able Seaman
BORN LONDON 04/12/1896. STRAND. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL'S WALKER STREET MEMORIAL. HIS SISTER JANE LIVED IN FLEET STREET, HOLBORN, LONDON. COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL On 22 March 1918, the British sloop HMS Gaillardia, built by Blyth Shipbuilding in 1917, struck a British laid mine in the Northern Barrage, Pentland […]