BORN HULL 1869. SON OF ANTHONY & ROSAMOND BARTHO. A SEAMAN. HE JOINED THE MERCHANT NAVY, ON 09/06/1886. HE MARRIED EMILY IN HULL, IN 1894. THEY LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS AND 59 CAMDEN STREET, HULL, WITH THEIR SIX CHILDREN.
WORKED AS SHIP’S MATE ON THE STEAM TRAWLER ‘BUTE’. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED, ON 02/08/1915, AGED 45. BURIED AT SEA. THERE IS NO CWGC RECORD.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HESSLE ROAD, NAVAL, MEMORIAL, HULL.
On July 14th, 1916, the British trawler Bute was sunk by the German submarine UB-39 (Werner Fürbringer), 25 miles SE of the Tyne. There were no casualties. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?145325
First name:
JOHN ROSS
Regiment:
Rank:
Ship's Mate
Date Died
02/08/1915
Place died:
Sea
Age:
45
