BORN KENT 21.9.1878. MARRIED HULL 1905. WIFE EDITH HODGESON & FOUR CHILDREN LIVED AT, 8. CLAREMONT AVENUE, SCARBOROUGH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A HULL POST MAN. HE HAD SERVED IN BOER WAR. HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY AND LOST AT SEA, ON HMS “HAWKE”, 15/10/1914, AGED 36. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S SOMERSET STREET MEMORIAL AND THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, KENT, UK.
HMS Hawke, British, Edgar class First Class Protected Cruiser. Torpedoed by German submarine U-9 off Aberdeen in the North Sea. The torpedo hit amidships and HMS Hawke capsized within 10 minutes. The destroyer Swift and the steamer Modesta picked up 71 survivors, but 529 crew were lost.
Eekelers Dirk 25/01/2006 British Light cruiser torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-9. She was part of the 12th Cruiser Squadron and had met with HMS Endymion so she could collect mail. An account of the sinking by a U-Boat crew member : http://www.warships.net/royalnavy/losses/hawk e-sinking.htm) Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?62228
