BORN HELENSBURGH, SCOTLAND 1871. SHIP’S COOK ON THE STEAM SHIP “SAXON”. DROWNED DURING A SUBMARINE ATTACK, ON 07/05/1918, AGED 47. HIS WIFE MARY (HINSLEY) LIVED AT 6 GLADYS GROVE, CURTISS STREET, HULL. (CWGC ADDRESS).
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON.
SS Saxon, built by T. Turnbull & Son, Whitby in 1881 and owned at the time of her loss by Entente SS. Co. Ltd. (Leopold Walford), was a British steamer of 1.595 tons. On May 7th, 1918, Saxon, on a voyage from Odde to Leith with a cargo of carbide, was sunk by the German submarine U-105 (Friedrich Strackerjan), 83 miles ESE of Fair Isle. 22 persons were lost. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?60446
First name:
ALLAN
Regiment:
Rank:
Cook
Date Died
07/05/1918
Place died:
TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK
Age:
47
6 GLADYS GROVE, CURTIS STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
