BORN HULL 1894. ELDEST SON OF ALWIN CARR THOMPSON (1858-1946) & MINNIE HUDSON (1868-1974), OF 22, PLANE STREET, HULL. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FIVESISTERS. HIS FATHER WAS A RAILWAY CLERK . HE LIVED FOR SOME TIME WITH HIS GRANDPARENTS, AT 8 CRYSTAL GROVE, PULMAN STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND THEN WITH HIS PARENTS AT 22 PLANE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WORKED AS A GROCERS ASSISTANT. LIVED AT 22, OLAVE STREET, ANLABY ROAD, HULL
HE ENLISTED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY AS AN APPRENTICE. HE DROWNED, ON BOXING DAY 1914, AGED 19. HE APPEARS ON HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH, THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON AND ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 13/02/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. HIS YOUNGER BROTHER ROY (1899-1931), ENLISTED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 11TH NOVEMBER 1916, WAS WOUNDED IN THE LEFT THIGH AND WAS COMMISSIONED IN THE YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.
HIS MOTHER, MINNIE, LIVED TO BE 109 YEARS OLD. A LONG TIME TO REMEMBER THE LOSS OF HER FIRST SON, IN 1914, WHEN SHE 34 YEARS OLD.
Glenmorven was a 2,812 GRT compound-engined cargo ship completed in 1883 by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd.for Lindsay Gracie & Co. She left the Tyne bound for Leghorn on 26 December 1914 with a cargo of coal and was not seen again. Given the date and area, it is believed that she sunk after striking a mine. The following link is a report on the disappearance.
http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports2002/21204.asp?view=normal
