BORN HULL 04/09/1885. SON OF ANNIE AND JOSEPH CHAPMAN, OF 13, ALASKA STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BEFORE JOINING THE MINE SWEEPING SECTION IN SEPTEMBER 1916, ALBERT WORKED ON HULL DOCKS. HIS WIFE ETHEL M. CHAPMAN & TWO CHILDREN LIVED AT 9, MIDDLETON AVENUE, RENSBURG STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS THREE BROTHERS ALL SERVED IN FRANCE. THEY WERE, L/CPL EDWARD CHAPMAN, EYR, PTE ALEX CHAPMAN, WYR, DRIVER, ROLAND CHAPMAN, RFA. ALBERT WAS LOST AT SEA ON THE TRAWLER ‘RUBY’. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 24TH OCTOBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. . HIS BROTHER EDWARD CHAPMAN, 28475, EYR WAS DIED OF PNEUMONIA, ON 09/10/1918, AGED 24.
HMT Ruby, built by Cochrane & Sons Ltd., Selby in 1916 and owned at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 251 tons. On October 17th, 1917, HMT Ruby was torpedoed while assisting the sinking steamer Polvena and sunk by the German submarine UC-79 (Werner Löwe), off Ushant (Ouessant). There were no survivors, 18 persons were killed.
PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT RUBY
BRYAN, DAVID (38), Engineman (no. 5081ES), H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Reserve, †17/10/1917, Son of John and Jane Bryan, of Grimsby; husband of Edith Bryan, of 41, Buller St., Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
CASHMORE, THOMAS WILLIAM (19), Telegraphist (no. Bristol Z/9605), H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, †17/10/1917, Son of Rose Cashmore, of 118, Lichfield Rd., Aston, Birmingham, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial
CHAPMAN, ALBERT , Trimmer (no. 5973TS), H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Reserve, †17/10/1917, Husband of E. M. Chapman, of 9, Middleton Avenue, Rensbury St., New Bridge Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
COOK, GEORGE WILLIAM (21), Trimmer Cook (no. 955TC), H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Reserve, †17/10/1917, Son of Margaret Cook, of 33, School St., Gateshead-on-Tyne, and the late John Cook, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
COPPING, GEORGE (41), Leading Deck Hand (no. 11680DA), H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Reserve, †17/10/1917, Son of George and C. Copping, of 66, Litchfield Rd., Great Yarmouth; husband of Rose Copping, of 14, 74 Row, King St., Great Yarmouth, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
CUNDY, F , Deck Hand (no. 17939/DA), H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Reserve, †17/10/1917, Memorial: Old Church Cemetery, Isles Of Scilly
DARRAGH, CHARLES ALEXANDER (57), Deck Hand (no. 12046DA), H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Reserve, †17/10/1917, Son of Thomas Darragh, of Belmont Rd., St. Heliers, Jersey; husband of Alice Susan Darragh, of Les Marais, Beaumont, St. Peter’s, Jersey, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
HUBBARD, HENRY IRISON , Deck Hand (no. 13846DA), H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Reserve, †17/10/1917, Son of John William and Martha Ann Hubbard, of 12, Edward Terrace, Garibaldi St., Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
JAMESON, HAROLD WALTER (28), Skipper, H.M. Trawler Ruby, Royal Naval Reserve, †17/10/1917, Son of Carrie Jameson, of Detroite Villas, Withernsea, Hull; husband of A. N. Bainbridge (formerly Jameson), of 53, Phoenix St., Goole, Yorks, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
MARSHALL, JOHN THOMAS (40), Engineman (no. 4952ES), H.M. Trawler Ruby, R
