BORN GRIMSBY 26/05/1888. SON OF ROBERT JAMES CRESSEY (1864-1915) AND MARY ANN READING (1864-1954) OF 11 SHAW STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED AT CLEETHPORPES, LINCOLNSHIRE, ON 09/01/1908. HIS WIFE LILLY GRAY, AND SON ARTHUR, LIVED AT 17 MONTAGUE STREET, NEWW CLEE, GRIMSBY.
HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. LOST AT SEA, ON THE TRAWLER, ‘HERMIA, ON 01/08/1916, AGED 28.
HIS FATHER WAS A TRAWLER SKIPPER, ON THE GRIMSBY SHIP, ‘STIRLING’, LOST AT SEA, ON 24/02/1915. HIS MOTHER MARY ANN LIVED UNTIL 1954. SHE HAD LOST HER HUSBAND AND SON IN THE WAR.
First name:
GEORGE JAMES
Regiment:
Rank:
Able Seaman
Date Died
01/08/1916
Place died:
Grimsby (Scartho Road) Cemetery, Lincolnshire, UK
Age:
28
11 , SHAW STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
