Leading Signalman
BORN HESSLE 21/02/1885. SON OF VICTOR ARTHUR ALDOLPHUS (JAMES) AXUP (1844-1911) & HANNAH MARY CHRISTIE (1854-1939), AT 1 FLORAL GROVE, ETON STREET, HULL. MARRIED ELIZABETH DOROTHY MAY OAKLEY, AT ROMFORD, ESSEX IN AUGUST 1910. THEY LIVED AT 'RIVER VIEW', RAINHAM ROAD, DAGENHAM. THEIR DAUGHTER MURIEL WAS BORN IN 1911. A ROYAL NAVY LEAD […]
Signalman
1, Queensgate Street, Hull
Died on
05/09/1914
Aged
19
Born Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 16 Sep 1895. Husband of Ellen at 1, Queensgate Street, Hull (War Pension address) He enlisted in the Royal Navy, on 13 Sep 1911. Served as a Signalman, on HMS Pathfinder the first war ship to be sunk by a propelled torpedoe, 05/09/1914. CWGC lists 261 fatalities from the Pathfinder, including two civ […]
Able Seaman
111 , GLASGOW STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
05/09/1914
Aged
22
BORN HULL 1895. SON OF GEORGE & BETSY MASON ABOVE. DIED AT SEA. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 22/08/18. British Pathfinder Class Scout Cruiser torpedoed and sunk out from the Firth of Forth by German submarine U-21. Hit by a single torpedo that hit the forward magazine causing it to explode, Pathfinder sinking in 4 […]
