BORN HULL 24/07/1884. SON OF HENRY ROBERT BALDWIN AND MARY ANN O’NEIL, OF 58, ESSEX STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 21, ETON STREET, HULL (CANADIAN WAR PAPERS). ELDEST OF SIX SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER.
A FISH DOCK LABOURER. HE MARRIED ELIZA COWLING, IN OCTOBER 1907. LIVED AT 28, DORSET STREET, HULL, (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS) AND 21, ETON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). TWO CHILDREN. LOST AT SEA ON TRAWLER ‘LUCKNOW’, 18/05/1917. LISTED IN ST BARNABAS WW1 ROH BOOK.
Lucknow, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley in 1903 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 171 tons. On May 18th, 1917, Lucknow was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-36 (Gustav Buch), off Portsmouth, 2 miles west of the Owers lightvessel. 9 persons were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT ‘LUCKNOW’
1. BALDWIN, HENRY ROBERT PATRICK , Engineman (no. 820ES), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/05/1917, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
2. CREWS, CHARLES HENRY (25), Second Hand (no. 15422/DA), Son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Crews, of 31, Selby St., Lowestoft, Memorial: Lowestoft (Beccles Road) Cemetery
3. DODDS, GORDON (19), Ordinary Seaman (no. VR/2943), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, †18/05/1917, Son of Walter George and Martha Matilda Dodds of Armstrong, BC, Memorial: Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
4. MCCASKILL, WILLIAM HUGH (24), Trimmer (no. 5544TS), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/05/1917, Son of Mary Ann McCaskill, of 62, Sunnybank Rd., Aberdeen, and the late John Fleming McCaskill, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
5. PETERS , Ordinary Seaman (no. VR/3161), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, †18/05/1917, Memorial: Halifax Memorial
6. SKELDON (25), Ordinary Seaman (no. VR/2586), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, †18/05/1917, Son of Mrs. Mary Skeldon, of 7, Maitland St., Ontario; husband of Mabel M. Skeldon, of 437, West 52nd St., New York, U.S.A, Memorial: Halifax Memorial
7. SMITH, JAMES , Trimmer (no. 5795TS), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/05/1917, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
8. WOODHOUSE, GEORGE WILLIAM (37), Skipper, HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/05/1917, Son of Arthur Woodhouse; husband of Alexanderina Duthie Woodhouse, of 13, East North St., Aberdeen. Born at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Memorial: Aberdeen (Trinity) Cemetery
9. WYSTHOFF, WILLIAM ANDREW (32), Engineman (no. 3480ES), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, †18/05/1917, Son of Charles and Anna Wysthoff, of Hull; husband of Florence Wysthoff, of 2, Johnson Place, Porter St., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
