Sadler, Thomas (Tom) | Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914

BORN MIDDLESBROUGH, YORKSHIRE, 1876. SON OF JOHN SADLER (1841-1889) AND BRIDGET WILSON (1842-1892). A MERCHANT SEAMAN, ON THE STEAMSHIP “CORALIE HORLOCK, DIED OF HEART FAILURE, WHILE INTERNED IN HOLLAND, ON 17/04/1918, AGED 42.

HE MARRIED LILIAN HOLT (1880-1949), AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN 1906.

HE LEFT £30 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW, LILIAN, AT 6, GRANVILLE VILLAS, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS & PROBATE ADDRESS). ALSO DAUGHTERS, LILIAN AND WINIFRED MARY SADLER (1911 CENSUS).

HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE STONE PILLARS, AT ST MARY’S CHURCH, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL.

HIS BROTHERS, MATTHEW AND JOHN SADLER, SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL, DURING THE WAR. ANOTHER BROTHER, JAMES SADLER, ENLISTED WITH THE CANADIANS ON 12/08/1915 SERVED AS PRIVATE, 469174, 87TH BATTALION AND WAS KILLED, AT VIMY RIDGE, ON 09/04/1917, AGED 38.

Thank you to Tommy for providing the following information, on 19/02/2023, which reads: –

I am responding to your very interesting website about Hull in the first world war. I came here because I’m researching a grave on the WW1 CWGC plot in The Hague, Dutch. On this plot lie victims of “the action of 22 September 1914” the sinking by U-boat of the cruisers HMS Aboukir, HMS Cressy, and HMS Hogue. There are also interned British soldiers who died in 1918 and 1919 from the Spanish flu or from acts of war at sea.

There is one grave of citizen, T. Sadler, with the date of death of 17-4-1918. I had already made some searches for this citizen, but never found a trace. The name Sadler does not appear in the list of names of the Municipality of The Hague. By chance, I decided to search the death archive of The Hague. To my surprise, Thomas Saddler (double DD) appears to have died on 17-4-1918. So, there is an error in the name list (already reported).

By supplementing the first name Thomas I came across a Thomas Sadler who interned in Germany in 1914 as a Merchant sailor with the SS Coralie Horlock.
Through the information from SS Coralie Horlock, I arrived at Thomas’ address, in Hull and from there on your site. The address of Thomas Sadler according to the shipping company would be Horlock. – T Sadler, FIREMAN, 6. GRANVILLE GROVE SCULCOATES LANE BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL.
CORALIE HORLOCK ON 114649, RELEASED TO HOLLAND 23/3/1918, DIED IN HOLLAND 17/4/1918

This address is also mentioned at the address of Private, Thomas Sadler, Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment 20th Battalion (3rd Public Schools) https://ww1hull.com/directory-newtest/listing/sadler-thomas/. I suspect that Thomas Sadler mentioned on St Mary’s church Sculcoates Lane Hull, is not the Private Sadler, but the merchant sailor, Thomas Sadler. This would also explain why private Sadler, is not mentioned in the CWGC registers. He survived the war.
I am still looking for the cause of death of Thomas Sadler (sailor) He died shortly after arriving in the Netherlands. I suspect that he suffered from pneumonia. I also know that he was married and had two young daughters, living 6, Granville Grove, Sculcoates Lane, Beverley Road, Hull. And luck struck me, as I found a sports medal on a web auction that T Sadler won in 1915 in the internment camp Ruhleben near Berlin as the tug-of-war team coach.