BORN HULL 21/2/1895. SON OF SOLOMAN & LATE MARY JANE SULTAN. HE HAD SURVIVED THE BATTLES OF HELIGO BIGHT & JUTLAND WHEN A HALF TONN, SHELL WENT THROUGH THE SIDE OF HIS SHIP, BUT NEVER EXPLODED. HE IS RECORDED ON ST MARYS CHURCH, LOWGATE & ST MARKS MEMORIAL. HIS BROTHER WALTER SERVED WITH THE EYR & SISTER GERTRUDE SERVED ASA NURSE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 8TH MARCH 1917. *
Note: ABRAHAM SULTON IS LISTED ON HULL TECHNICAL ROLL OF HONOUR, PARK STREET, HULL.
HMS Pheasant, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Glasgow in 1916 and owned at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British destroyer of 1025 tons. On March 1st, 1917, HMS Pheasant was sunk by a mine from the German submarine U-80 (Alfred von Glasenapp), west of the Orkney Islands (Barrage 39). 88 persons were lost.
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