BORN HULL 1898. SON OF CHARLOTTE REED, OF 9, STABLE YARD, SALTHOUSE LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HUSBAND OF BEATRICE (HOPTON) REED, OF 15, EAGLE TERRACE, CLEVELAND STREET, HULL.
Jan Lettens 10/11/2018 When destroyer HMS ATTACK and armed trawler HMT POINTS CASTLE came to rescue the torpedoed troopship RMS ARAGON, HMS ATTACK herself, having rescued 300 to 400 men from ARAGON, was torpedoed by UC-34 and sunk. Allen Tony 31/03/2009 The British destroyer HMS ATTACK was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine UC-34 off Alexandria on December 30th, 1917. Her official complement was 72, but it is probable that a larger number than this was on board at the time of her loss. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?134943
First name:
WILLIAM AUGUSTINE
Regiment:
Military Number:
28390
Rank:
Able Seaman
Date Died
30/12/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
19
