BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOHN EDWARD & ALICE MAUD. WIFE GERTRUDE (BRATTON), LIVED AT 4, ALFRED TERRACE, DALTRY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL (MM). TRANSFERRED TO THE MERCHANT MARINE RESERV. LOST ON THE TUG “HUGHLI”, ON 26/04/1919, AGED 27. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE WALKER STREET MEMORIAL, HULL. THE 1918 ABSENT VOTERS – LIST HIM AS FIREMAN, HMS ‘VICTORY’.
HE IS BURIED AT OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GOD’S WILL BE DONE”.
Launched 1894: s/s HUGHLI
built by Robert Duncan & Co Port Glasgow, Yard No 268 Engines by Rankin & Blackmore, Greenock
Port of Registry: London Propulsion: 2 x compound 2-cyl.l 227nhp (180nhp?) 1300ihp 13kn 2-screw Launched: Monday, 29/10/1894 Built: 1894 Ship Type: Tug Tonnage: 513 grt 124nhp Length: 200.3 feet Breadth: 27.7 feet Owner History: James Nourse & Co, London & Calcutta 1903 James Nourse Ltd, London 1907 Richard A Grech, Constantinople 1911 Elizabeth C V Grech, St Leonard´s 1915 Royal Navy requisition
Wrecked on 26/04/1919 at Middelkerke, en route Dover for Ostend, 29 out of 37 lost, refloated 15/05/1919, but sank off Nieuport; abandoned to Belgian authorities
