BORN HULL 16/06/1887. SON OF ARABELLA SELLERS & THE LATE JOSEPH ALFRED WALKER(DIED 1896). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN AT THIS ADDRESS. THEY MOVED TO CLEETHORPES ROAD, GRIMSBY. SERVED AS DECKHAND, ON THE PADDLE MINESWEEPER, ‘BRIGHTON QUEEN’. LOST AT SEA ON 06/10/1915, AGED 27, WHEN THE SHIP WAS MINED OFF NIEUPORT. COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL.
The paddle steamship BRIGHTON QUEEN Pss was taken over by the Admiralty early in the First World War for service as a minesweeper. On October 6th, 1915, she was mined and sunk off Nieuport. Her complement as a minesweeper was about 60 officers and men. On October 6th, 1915, the British auxiliary minesweeper Brighton Queen was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-5 (Herbert Pustkuchen), 5 miles west of Nieuwport. 8 persons were killed. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?135782
People on board PSS BRIGHTON QUEEN123 1. DUNKS, THOMAS (39), Trimmer (no. 3995TS), PSS Brighton Queen, Royal Naval Reserve, °1875 ~ †06/10/1915, Son of John Dunks, of London; husband of Sarah Winifred Dunks, of 110, Stanley St., New Clee, Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 2. GOSLING, ARTHUR , Deck Hand (no. 8094DA), PSS Brighton Queen, Royal Naval Reserve, †06/10/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 3. LECKENBY, JOHN WILLIAM (38), Trimmer (no. 4011TS), PSS Brighton Queen, Royal Naval Reserve, †06/10/1915, Son of John W. and Sarah Leckenby, of Grimsby, Lincs, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 4. MORRIS, GEORGE HAROLD , Seaman (no. 5047A), PSS Brighton Queen, Royal Naval Reserve, †06/10/1915, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial 5. SHARP , Trimmer (no. 1415/TS), PSS Brighton Queen, Royal Naval Reserve, †07/10/1915, Memorial: Malo-Les-Bains Communal Cemetery 6. SMITH, WILLIAM (35), Deck Hand (no. 8180DA), PSS Brighton Queen, Royal Naval Reserve, †06/10/1915, Son of Alfred and Esther Marie Smith, of Harwich; husband of Ellen Wiles Smith, of 131, Wood St., Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 7. WALKER, HAROLD (27), Deck Hand (no. 8274DA), PSS Brighton Queen, Royal Naval Reserve, †06/10/1915, Son of Arabella Walker, of 85, Orwell St., Cleethorpes Rd., Grimsby, and the late Joseph Alfred Walker. Born at Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?135782
