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 LEADING SIGNALMAN. SUNK BY SUBMARINE OFF THE FIRTH OF FORTH, ON 05/09/1914. AGED 29. COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 12TH SEPTEMBER 1914. *
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL’S GILLETT STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916)
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 minutes. She was the first British warship sunk by a submarine in World War 1. There were seventy survivors from the crew of 570. 49 of these were picked up by a Norwegian steamer and taken to Aberdeen and further 21 were rescued by HMS Swift.
