BORN HULL 1897. SON OF WILLIAM DAVIES & SALINA (HOFF), OF 41 SYKES STREET, HULL & THIS ADDRESS. AN ENGINE CLEANER. SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY.LOST AT SEA, BY ENEMY ACTION, ON 14/02/1918, AGED 22. HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY WAR RECORDS.
War Monarch SS was a 7,887grt, defensively-armed British merchantship. On the 14th February 1918 when on route from Hull for Italy she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-57 when 11 miles East from Royal Sovereign Light Vessel, English Channel. Owned by The Shipping Controller, managed by Cunard S.S. Co, Liverpool. There were three casualties.
1. DAVIES, KENNETH (22), Fireman, SS War Monarch, Mercantile Marine, †14/02/1918, Son of Selina Lockwood (formerly Davies, nee Hoff), of 105, Regent St., Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
2. MITCHELL (32), Second Engineer, SS War Monarch, Mercantile Marine, †14/02/1918, Born in Isle of Sheppy, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
3. SHAW, FREDERICK CHARLES (44), Greaser, SS War Monarch, Mercantile Marine, †14/02/1918, Son of the late Frederick and Louise Shaw; husband of Florence Shaw (nee Daniels), of East Stockwith, Gainsborough, Lincoln. Born at Sheffield, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
