BORN HULL 1867. SON OF CHARLES EDWARD & MARTHA ELSIE ELLARBY – 89 ETON STREET, HULL. EDUCATED CHURCH STREET SCHOOL. EMPLOYED FOR MAY YEARS AS SKIPPER, WITH THE RED CROSSFLLET OF BOXING TRAWLERS. JOINED THE RNR MINESWEEPER SERVICE ON 06/02/1915. APPOINTED AS SECOND MATE, TO THE MINESWEEPER ‘EARL LENNOX’, ON 02/01/1916. KILLED OFF THE IRISH COAST, BY AN EXPLOSION OF A MINE, ON 23/101/1917, AGED 51
HE MARRIED TWICE. HIS FIRST WIFE WAS ELIZA WINDER, AND THEY HAD SIX CHILDREN. HE MARRIED HARRIET ANN BUTLER AT ST BARNABAS CHURCH ON 19/02/1911. HIS DEATH WAS RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 4. HIS FIVE SONS SERVING ON MINESWEEPERS AND THE OTHER IN FRANCE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED ON THE 29/10/1917.
Earl Lennox, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Ltd., Beverley in 1914 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 226 tons. On October 23rd, 1917, Earl Lennox was sunk by a mine from the German submarine U-79 (Otto Rohrbeck), south of Islay Sound. 7 persons were lost.
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BORMAN, WALTER WILLOUGHBY (40), Engineman (no. 2742ES), D S M, H.M. Trawler Earl Lennox, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/10/1917, Son of Elizabeth and the late Charles Borman; husband of Clara Annie Borman, of 65, Tiverton St., New Cleethorpes, Lincs, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
COATES, THOMAS (41), Deck Hand (no. 3150SD), H.M. Trawler Earl Lennox, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/10/1917, Son of the late Thomas and Sarah Coates, of Wrafton, Devon, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial
DALTON, OLIVER JAMES (53), Engineman (no. 867ES), H.M. Trawler Earl Lennox, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/10/1917, Brother of Catherine Ann McNally, of 39, Richmond Grove East, Longsight, Manchester, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
ELLARBY, CHARLES EDWARD (51), Second Hand (no. 1569SA), H.M. Trawler Earl Lennox, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/10/1917, Son of Charles Edward and Martha Ellarby, of Hull; husband of Harriet Ann Ellarby, of 3, Derwent Avenue, Eton St., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
HARTLEY, JOHN FOSTER CRAWFORD (23), Deck Hand (no. 1656DA), H.M. Trawler Earl Lennox, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/10/1917, Son of George and Ada Hartley, of 1, Long Greece Steps, Eastsandgate, Scarborough, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
HUBBARD, ALBERT (17), Deck Hand (no. 4217DA), H.M. Trawler Earl Lennox, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/10/1917, Son of Alice Grief (formerly Hubbard), of 16, Tyrolean Square, Cobholm, Great Yarmouth, and the late Herbert Hubbard, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
LUCAS, WILLIAM THOMAS (21), Trimmer (no. 964TS), H.M. Trawler Earl Lennox, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/10/1917, Son of William and Isabella Lucas, of 28, Daisy Dale, Skirbeck, Boston, Lincs, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial.
