BORN HULL 27/02/1890. SON OF HENRY MASSAM (1850-1930)AND ELIZA PURVIS (1856-1925), OF 28, SCARBOROUGH STREET, HULL. EDUCATED AT SCARBOROUGH STREET, SCHOOL. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MR G. W. HART, AT HULL FISH DOCK. HE MARRIED AT HULL ON 26/07/1913. HIS WIFE ANNIE ELIZABETH MASSAM, LIVED AT 5 CLOVELLY GARDENS, SUBWAY STREET, HULL (CWGC, ADDRESS). HE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, ON 28/05/1915 AND VOLUNTEERED FOR MINESWEEPERS. HE WAS REPORTED TO HAVE DROWNED, ON 06/08/1915, AGED 35, AT SHEERNESS, KENT. HE HAD ENLISTED, ONLY EIGHT WEEKS BEFORE AND SERVED ON THE HULL TRAWLER, ‘LEANDROS’ FOR THREE WEEKS. COMMEMORATED IN THE DE RUVIGNEY, ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 2, PAGE 222.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 13TH AUGUST 1915, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON 7TH AUGUST 1915. *
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, ROBERT WILLIAM MASSAM, 20TH NFUS, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1917, AGED 31.
HMT Leandros, built by Cochrane, Selby in 1907 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 276 tons. On August 6th, 1915, HMT Leandros was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-5 (Herbert Pustkuchen), at the north entrance to Knock Deep. 7 persons were lost.
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BRADY, JAMES , Deck Hand (no. 288DA), H.M. Trawler Leandros, Royal Naval Reserve, 06/08/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
CUMMING, WILLIAM GEORGE , Deck Hand (no. 7561DA), H.M. Trawler Leandros, Royal Naval Reserve, 06/08/1915, Husband of Maggie Collett Cumming, of 27, Malcolm Rd., Bucksburn, Aberdeen, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
DADD, JAMES EDWARD (37), Trimmer (no. 321TS), H.M. Trawler Leandros, Royal Naval Reserve, 06/08/1915, Son of Harriett Dadd, of 15, Bartholomew St., Ipswich, Suffolk. Native of Great Yarmouth, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
GLASS, JOHN , Engineman (no. 69ES), H.M. Trawler Leandros, Royal Naval Reserve, 06/08/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
JOYCE, FRANCIS , Trimmer (no. 94ST), H.M. Trawler Leandros, Royal Naval Reserve, 06/08/1915, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial
MASSAM, HAROLD , Trimmer (no. 3650TS), H.M. Trawler Leandros, Royal Naval Reserve, 06/08/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
PARKER, SIDNEY (26), Engineman (no. 49ES), H.M. Trawler Leandros, Royal Naval Reserve, 06/08/1915, Son of Anselm and Harriet Parker, of Brigg, Lincs.; husband of Florence Mary Womersley (formerly Parker), of 18, Sea View St., Cleethorpes, Lincs, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial.
