BORN HULL 05/03/1896. MOTHER HANNAH MILLER, LIVED AT 2 ANGLE INN YARD, HARTLEPOOL. (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 100, WEST PARADE, SPRING BANK, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE SERVED AS ROYAL NAVY RESERVE STOKER. DIED AT SEA, ON THE TROOP SHIP, HMS ‘LOUVAIN’, 20/01/1918, AGED 21.
SS Louvain, built as a passenger ship by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1897 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British armed boarding steamer of 1830 tons.
On January 20th, 1918, Louvain used as a troop transport, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-22 (Carl Bünte) in the Kelos Strait, in the Aegean Sea. 224 persons were lost.
First name:
HENRY
Regiment:
Military Number:
S/4814
Rank:
Stoker
Date Died
20/01/1918
Place died:
Sea
Age:
21
2 ANGLE INN YARD, HARTLEPOOL, COUNTY DURHAM, NORTH EAST ENGLAND, UK
Place Buried
