BORN HULL 1897. SON OF ANNIE AND SAMUEL DAY. LOST AT SEA ON 13/05/1918, AGED 21. 20, JOHN STREET, HULL, WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE LEFT £213 TO FATHER SAMUEL DAY, A POLICE INSPECTOR, AT 8, ADDERBURY CRESCENT, ADDERBURY GROVE, HULL. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ELLERMAN-WILSON LINE WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR. NO CWGC RECORD? HIS DEATH WAS A HUGE BLOW FOR THE FAMILY, AND HIS NAME APPEARS IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE MEMORIAM COLUMN, UP TO THE 1930’s. HIS BROTHER JOHN WILLIAM DAY, ROYAL NAVY, HMS “ABOUKIR” WAS ONE OF HULL’S FIRST CASUALTIES. LOST AT SEA ON 22/09/1914, AGED 25.
On the outbreak of war in 1914, the then SS Hedwig was in the Russian port of Archangel; it was confiscated, renamed Ibis and transferred to the West Russian Steamship Co, then later chartered by the UK Shipping Controller. At the time of its loss, the ship was operated by the Hull-based Ellerman-Wilson line. On the 12th May 1918, while on voyage from Bilbao to Glasgow with a cargo of ore. IBIS was in collision with SS WHIMBREL, 6 miles W of the Lizard, United Kingdom and sank. Seven crew were lost.
1. BREACKER, JAMES WILLIAM , Able Seaman (no. London/Z/3778), SS Ibis, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, †12/05/1918, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
2. COOK, F , Master, SS Ibis, †12/05/1918
3. DAY, JOHN WILLIAM (JACK) , 2nd Officer, SS Ibis, †12/05/1918, His death was clearly a huge blow to his family; his name appears multiple times in the Hull Daily Mail In Memoriam column at least until 1930, Memorial: Roll Of Honour Ellerman-Wilsons Line Hull
4. LONGSTAFF, E.T , Second Engineer, SS Ibis, †12/05/1918, Taken from Hull Daily Mail In Memoriam column 12.5.1919
5. MATTHEWS, R , Chief Officer, SS Ibis, †12/05/1918, Left two young children Leslie & Doreen, Memorial: Roll Of Honour Ellerman-Wilsons Line Hull
6. ROBERTSON, J , Third Officer, SS Ibis, †12/05/1918, Memorial: Roll Of Honour Ellerman-Wilson’S Line Hull
7. SORENSEN , Leading Seaman (no. Wales Z/99), SS Ibis, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, †12/05/1918, Memorial: Helston (Porthleven) Cemetery
Day, William John (Jack)
First name:
WILLIAM JOHN (JACK)
Regiment:
Rank:
2nd Officer
Date Died
13/05/1918
Place died:
Sea
Age:
21
20 , JOHN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
