BORN HULL 1886. ONLY SON OF CHARLES HENRY SALVIDGE (1860-1893) & LOUISA MEEK (1859-1932), OF 7 SEATON STREET, HULL. HE HAD A SISTER CALLED OLIVE.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE 1ST EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. HE DROWNED AT SEA, ON 15/04/1917, AGED 30. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, LOUISA. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MIRA MEMORIAL, GREECE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 27/04/1917.
On 15th April 1917, HMT Arcadian was sunk off Melos in the Aegean Sea. Nineteen men of the draft of 43 ERY men destined to join the 1/1st ERY in Palestine were among those drowned. The regiment’s war diary notes 2nd Lt. (Richard Duncan) Ullyott and 13 men arriving on May 9th, with 19 reported drowned. In addition, Robert Bell was a former ERY man, then attached to the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and Harry Matthews may also have been with the ERY, though the evidence is ambiguous. So the total losses for the regiment on this occasion may have been 21. Though there were a couple of experienced NCOs in this group, the majority were young recruits.
