BORN HULL 1881. SON OF THOMAS WILLIAM HOLDER (1856-1917) & MARY ANN FIELD (1855-1933), OF 80 ETHERINGTON DRIVE, BEVERLEY ROAD. (ARMY ADDRESS). WIFE MARY ELIZABETH (HODGSON) LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. ABLE SEAMAN. LOST AT SEA ON 21/05/1917, AGED 36. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN MORLEY HOLDER, MGC, DIED ON 03/05/1917.
Jupiter SS was a British Merchant Cargo steamer of 2,124grt built for Hessler Shipping Co. (Jacob Hessler & Co,), West Hartlepool by Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co, Greenock. In 1915 she was purchased by W. R. Bradley, Hull. She was powered by a triple expansion engine of 222nhp giving 10 knots. On the 21st May 1917 when on route from Dieppe for Manchester in ballast she was torpedoed by German submarine UB-40 and sunk when 15 miles west of Beachy Head, Sussex. 19 dead.
