BORN HULL 25/09/1893. SON OF WALTER GLADYS SCARBOROUGH (1867-1921) AND SARAH ELEANOR CLARKSON (1870-1917), OF 9 HAMERS TERRACE, MANCHESTER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A MUSICIAN. SECOND OF FIVE CHILDREN. A LABOURER. MARRIED. HIS WIFE, MARY ANN ELIZABETH SMITH (1892-1964), LIVED AT 6 ARTHUR’S TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL. (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE AS AN ENGINEMAN. HE WAS LOST AT SEA, ON THE DRIFTER “HASFEN”, ON 24/09/1917, AGED 23. HE DIED THE DAY BEFORE HIS 24TH BIRTHDAY.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON TRINITY HOUSE MEMORIAL, HULL. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, KENT, UK.
HMD Hastfen, built by Killybegs, Co. Donegal in 1911 and hired at the time of her loss by the Royal Navy, was a British navy drifter of 77 tons. On September 24th, 1917, HMD Hastfen was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-11 (Karl Dobberstein), South of the Shipwash Sand. 4 persons were lost. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?129674
