BORN HULL 02/02/1879. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY E. FISH, OF 49, SCOTT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) 7 22, BOURNEMOUTH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER – EDNA BORN ON 5 DEC 1913. AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 21/3 SHILLINGS ON 20 DEC 1917.
HE MARRIED IN 1903. HIS WIFE FLORENCE SAINT LIVED AT 17 KING STREET, SOUTH SEA, HAMPSHIRE. HE HAD JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE IN 1908. SERVED AS ENGINEMAN ON THE TRAWLER. ‘TOHEE’ LOST ON ESCORT DUTY, IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, ON 15/06/1917.
Built by GOOLE SHIPBUILDING & REPAIRING CO. LTD., GOOLE (Dutch River) for Kelsall Brothers & Beeching, Hull as the TOWHEE (H987); Yard No 111; Launch Date: 04/1908; Completed June 1908; Requisitioned by Admiralty in WW1; Lost without trace while on escort duty in the English Channel on 15 June 1917. 19 crew were lost. They included:-
ELLISON, FREDERICK THOMAS (40), Skipper, HMT Towhee, Royal Naval Reserve, †15/06/1917, Husband of Maud Caroline Ellison, of 8, Irene Crescent, Flinton St., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
3. FISH, HENRY WHITE , Engineman (no. 831ES), HMT Towhee, Royal Naval Reserve, †15/06/1917, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
