BORN HULL 14/01/1899. SON OF GEORGE CROWCROFT MORRILL (1877-1915) & HELENE (ELLEN) FRANCES MORRILL (1874-1924), OF, 4, BENVISTAS AVENUE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. NEPHEW OF MR & MRS MOSES, 64 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, PERCY AND FIVE SISTERS. HIS FATHER HAD DIED ON 27/10/1916, AGED 39.
HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, AS A COAL TRIMMER ON THE TRAWLER ‘LORD RIDLEY’. SUNK BY ENEMY MINE OFF WHITBY COAST, ON 10/05/1917, AGED 18. TEN CREW LOST. THEY ARE COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, KENT. HE IS ALSO RECORDED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
Lord Ridley, trawler, lost May 10 1917. Yard No 494; Launched as LORD PERCY in August 1911; Originally registered at Grimsby and owned by the Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co. Grimsby; Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a mine-sweeper in February 1915; 10 lives lost On 10/05/1917 she struck a mine and sank off Whitby. The mine was laid by UC-40 (Gustav Deuerlich).
