BORN HULL 14/01/1899. SON OF GEORGE CROWCROFT MORRILL (1877-1915) & HELENE (ELLEN) FRANCES MORRILL (1874-1924). NEPHEW OF MR & MRS MOSES, 64 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, PERCY AND FIVE SISTERS. SERVED 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. HIS FATHER HAD DIED ON 27/10/1916, AGED 39.
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).
Morrill, Charles Cyril Valentine
First name:
CHARLES CYRIL VALENTINE
Military Number:
5321
Rank:
Trimmer
Date Died
10/05/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
18
4 BENVISTAS AVENUE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
