BORN HULL 1857. SON OF MATHEW AND MARY BRYAN, BOTH DECEASED. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN HULL FISHING CIRCLES AND HAD BEEN AT SEA FOR MANY YEARS. HE WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED SAILING FROM LIVERPOOL TO GLASGOW, FALLING INTO THE HOLD FROM THE TOP DECK. HE DIED ON 24/09/1914, AGED 57. HE LEFT A WIDOW, ELIZA EMMA (CALLAN) AND FOUR CHILDREN AT THIS ADDRESS. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH ARE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 17TH OCTOBER 1914.* THERE ARE NO CWGC RECORDS OF HIS DEATH.
The British wargo S/S Almora was sunk on 2nd October 1917 by the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann), 100 miles W1/2N of Cape Spartel. Almora was on a voyage from Barry to Gibraltar with a cargo of coal. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?144675
First name:
MATTHEW HENRY
Regiment:
Rank:
Ship's Mate
Date Died
24/09/1914
Place died:
Sea
Age:
57
231 , SUBWAY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
