BORN HULL 18/07/1894. SON OF JOHN SIMPSON & DIANA DAVIS, OF 71, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (CWGC & NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). A PLUMBER BY TRADE. JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY. LOST AT SEA ON 15/07/1917, AGED 24. UNMARRIED. HE LEFT A YOUNGER SISTER, MARION AND STEP SIBLINGS, JOE AND LILLIAN DAVIS.
HMS Redbreast, was a passenger/cargo ship requisitioned by the British Government during World War I, and used as a messenger ship and antisubmarine Q-ship. She was torpedoed and sunk by the Imperial German Navy submarine UC-38 in the Aegean Sea on 15 July 1917 while on passage from Skyros to the Doro Channel. Forty-two of her crew were killed.
First name:
HAROLD
Regiment:
Military Number:
61455
Rank:
Able Seaman
Date Died
15/07/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
24
