BORN HULL 1900. SON OF SUSAN & THE LATE ALFRED TEMPLE – 6 SARAH’S TERRACE, ROSAMOND STREET AND 3 REFORM STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SERVED AS TRIMMER ON THE STEAM TRAWLER, ‘AMBER’. LOST AT SEA. AGED 19. HIS FATHER, GUNNER, ALFRED TEMPLE, SERVED WITH THE 2ND EAST RIDING ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY AND DIED SHORTLY AFTER THE WAR ENDED.
Built as the AMBER for Kingston Steam Trawlers, Hull; Registion No H598; Yard No 189; Launch Date: 05/03/1898; Officially given up as lost on 26/01/1920, after leaving the port of Hull, in heavy gales, on New Years Day. All 10 crew missing.
CREW LOST ON AMBER (H398), missing, presumed to have struck mine, 10th January, 1920.
COOK, Christian (40), 3 Victoria-ave, Perry St, Hull. Chief Engineer
COUSINS, John (22), 15 Norfolk-ter, Norfolk St, Hull. Sparehand
HANNAH, Harold (40), 261 St. George’s Road, Hull. Skipper
HINDMARSH, William (54), 4 Worcester-ter, Gillett St, Hull. Bosun
LEEMAN, Benjamin (57), 1 Edwards-ter, Massey St, Hull. Cook
STEPHENS, Alfred (37), 36 St. Andrew’s St, Hull. Mate
TEMPLE, John (19), 3 Reform St, Hull. Trimmer
THOMPSON, John (24), 5 North-Terrace, West Dock-Ave, Hull. 2nd/Engineer
WILSON, Richard (25), 18 Wassand St, Hull. 3rd/Hand
WILTON, Arthur (33), 4 Andrew-place, Whitby. Deckhand
Temple, John William
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM
Regiment:
Rank:
Trimmer
Date Died
10/01/1920
Place died:
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK
Age:
19
