BORN BEVERLEY 1869. SON OF GODFREY GILLYON (1834-1907) & ANN GRAY (1845-1903), 0F 56 BECKSIDE, BEVERLEY. A DOCK LABOURER AND SEAM. HE COMPETED IN THE MARINER SPORTS SPCIETY RACES FOR YEARS AND APPEARED IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. HE MARRIED AT BEVERLEY, ON 08/11/1891. HIS WIFE, SARAH GRIFFIN (1870-1942), LIVED 23 RICHARD COOPER STREET, GOOLE. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN. HE SERVED ON THE GOOLE SHIP “BURMA” AND WAS LOST AT SEA ON 23/5/1918, AGED 49. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN GRAY GILLYON, 241367, 5TH YORKSHIRES, DIED A PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY, ON 14/11/1918, AGED 34. ANOTHER BROTHER, HERBERT GILLYON, A DOCK LABOURER LIVING AT 10 POPLAR TERRACE, CONVENT LANE, HULL, DIED IN MAY 1916, AGED 33.
SS Burma, built by S. P. Austin & Son, Sunderland in 1891 and owned at the time of her loss by Bennett Steamship Co. Ltd., Goole, was a British steamer of 706 tons. On June 23rd, 1916, Burma, on a voyage from London to Goole in ballast, was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-6 (Otto Ehrentraut), 15 miles east of Harwich. 7 persons were lost. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?70040
1. CHAMPION, ROBERT JOHN (31), Fireman, SS Burma, Mercantile Marine, †23/06/1916, Son of George and Sarah Jane Champion; husband of Blanch Champion (nee Coward), of 1, Johnson’s Buildings, Bridge Foot, Goole. Born at Swinefleet, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 2. DUDDING, ROBERT (63), Able Seaman, SS Burma, Mercantile Marine, †23/06/1916, Son of the late William and Hannah Dudding. Born at Goole, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 3. DUFFILL, THOMAS WILLIAM (29), Fireman, SS Burma, Mercantile Marine, †23/06/1916, Son of William Bellby Duffill, and Annie Duffill; husband of Ada Duffill (nee Hemmingway), of 23, Heber St., Old Goole, Yorks. Born at Goole, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 4. GILLYON, JAMES WALTER (48), Able Seaman, SS Burma, Mercantile Marine, †23/06/1916, Son of the late Godfrey and Ann Gillyon; husband of Sarah Gillyon, of 23, Richard Cooper St., Goole. Born at Beverley, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 5. JACKSON, HERBERT (34), Fireman, SS Burma, Mercantile Marine, †23/06/1916, Son of the late George and Martha Jackson; husband of Maria Jackson (nee Sutcliff), of 7, North St., Goole, Yorks. Born at Goole, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 6. SHAY, JOHN (48), Chief Engineer, SS Burma, Mercantile Marine, †23/06/1916, Son of Eliza Hunter Shay and the late James C. Shay; husband of Jane Shay (nee Smith), of 15, Broadway, Goole. Born at Goole, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 7. TURNER, ALBERT LEVY (36), Able Seaman, SS Burma, Mercantile Marine, †23/06/1916, Born at York, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?70040
