BORN HULL 18/06/1896. BROTHER OF GERTRUDE BRADY AT 6, HILDA’S GROVE, HARROW STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF LATE JAMES & ADA BRADY, OF 2, BELGRAVE TERRACE, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. LOST AT SEA WHEN HIS SHIP STRUCK A MINE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, 06/05/1918.
On May 4th, 1917, the British minesweeper LORD SALISBURY (FY1212), built in 1911 by Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by British Royal Navy, was sunk by a mine off Salonika in the Aegean Sea. 4 crewmen lost their lives. ref. used:Tony Lofthouse, Gilbert Mayes, David Newton, Michael Thompson, Cochrane Shipbuilders Vol I : 1884 – 1914
People on board HMT LORD SALISBURY123 1. BRADY, SYDNEY (20), Trimmer (no. 1675TS), HMT Lord Salisbury, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/05/1917, Son of the late James and Ada Brady; brother of Gertrude Brady, of 6, Hilda’s Grove, Harrow St., Hessle Rd., Hull. Native of Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 2. LONSDALE, HUGH PERCIVAL (35), Deck Hand (no. 2726DA), HMT Lord Salisbury, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/05/1917, Son of William and Eliza Lonsdale, of 16, Marshall Avenue, Bridlington, Yorks, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 3. READDING, WILLIAM (18), Trimmer (no. 3634TS), HMT Lord Salisbury, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/05/1917, Son of Alice Readding, of 14, Pharos Grove, Fleetwood, Lancs., and the late Edward Readding, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial 4. STARKINGS, WILLIAM SAMUEL ANGUISH (27), Deck Hand (no. 2723DA), HMT Lord Salisbury, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/05/1917, Son of William Samuel Anguish Starkings, of Martham Cess, Gt. Yarmouth, and the late Elizabeth Starkings, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?236054
