BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & THE LATE FRANCIS TINDALL. PRESUMED DROWNED. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH.
On April 2nd, 1917, the British steel cargo ship BENLARIG, left Fremantle for Colombo with a cargo of wheat in bags and went missing. She was not heard of ever since. 37 CREW LOST. Benlarig was a Bine Line cargo requisitioned by the Admiralty as a collier, aka Collier No.617.
DALTRY, WILLIAM JAMES (59), Able Seaman, SS Benlarig, Mercantile Marine, 02/04/1917, Husband of Susan Daltry (formerly Jacobson, nee Moore), of 10, Lizzies Grove, Liverpool St., Hull. Born at Cardiff, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial.
FLEET, CHARLES EDWARD (29), Boatswain, SS Benlarig, Mercantile Marine, 02/04/1917, Son of George Benjamin and Ann Maria Fleet, of Bram Lea, The Paddock, Anlaby Park, Hull. Born at Gorleston-on-Sea, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
TINDALL, JOHN WILLIAM (27), Sailor, SS Benlarig, Mercantile Marine, 02/04/1917, Son of John William Tindall, of 114, Francis Street West, Hull, Yorks, and the late Alice Tindall (nee Carey). Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
Tindall, John William
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM
Regiment:
Rank:
Sailor
Date Died
02/04/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
24
