BORN HULL 18/12/1881. HUSBAND OF, EMMA JOHNSON, AT 158 DIVISION ROAD, HESSLE ROAD, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS PARENTS, LIVED AT 7 ELGIA GROVE, ROSAMOND STREET. THIRD MATE ON THE TRAWLER, ‘ORCADES’, SUNK ON ‘HIS NAME IS LISTED ON 14/04/1916. HE WAS AGED 35. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE THE TRINITY HOUSE SCHOOL MEMORIAL. AND ON THE CHILTERN STREET ROLL OF HONOUR.
HMT Orcades, built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby in 1911 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 270 tons. On April 14th, 1916, HMT Orcades was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-7 (George Haag), off Grimsby. 6 persons were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT ORCADES
CAMERON, DUNCAN , Trimmer (no. 632TS), H.M. Trawler Orcades, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/04/1916, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
CULLEY, BENJAMIN ALFRED (24), Trimmer (no. 135TS), H.M. Trawler Orcades, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/04/1916, Son of Harry James and Linda Elizabeth Culley, of Harwich, Essex, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
FROST, R , Skipper, H.M. Trawler Orcades, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/04/1916, Husband of Mrs. Frost, of 152, Albert Avenue, Hull, Memorial: Hull Western Cemetery
JOHNSON, ERNEST (31), Second Hand (no. 336SA), H.M. Trawler Orcades, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/04/1916, Husband of Emma Johnson, of 158, Division Rd., Hull. Born at Leeds, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
STEER, HARRY (22), Deck Hand (no. 3061DA), H.M. Trawler Orcades, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/04/1916, Son of Jasper and Alice Steer, of 65, Montague St., New Clee, Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
WOOLER, HARRY DOUGLAS (37), Leading Seaman (no. 4346/B), H.M. Trawler Orcades, Royal Naval Reserve, †14/04/1916, Son of the late Samuel Wooler; husband of Beatrice Wooler, of 254, J Block, Guinness Buildings, Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth, London. Born in Isle of Man, Memorial: Lambeth Cemetery
