BORN FOLKESTONE 20/11/1884. SON OF JOHN HILIER WARMAN & ESTER STANDING. A SHIPS CARPENTER.
SERVED AS A DECK HAND ON THE NAVAL TRAWLER ‘MARION’. LOST AT SEA ON 23/02/1918, AGED 33, WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK A MINE OFF MALTA. SIX CREW WERE LOST. HIS SISTER, ESTHER CALEY LIVED AT 5, ST GEORGES GROVE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (CWGC NAVAL ADDRESS).
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL. ALSO LISTED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
HMT Marion, built by Smith’s Dock Co. Ltd., North Shields in 1906 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 255 tons. On February 23rd, 1918, HMT Marion was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-25 (Ernst von Wangenheim), off Malta. 6 persons were lost.
People on board HMT MARION123 1. FISK, JAMES GEORGE (27), Deck Hand (no. 308DA), HMT Marion, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/02/1918, Son of the late James George and Eliza Jane Fisk, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 2. KING, JOSEPH R. , Lieut-Commander, HMT Marion, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/02/1918, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 3. TARBITTON, HENRY , Second Hand (no. 2347/SA), HMT Marion, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/02/1918, Husband of Edith E. Tarbitton, of 70, Saville St., South Shields, Memorial: Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery 4. TETLEY, ROBERT , Signalman (no. TynesideZ/3978), HMT Marion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, †23/02/1918, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 5. TONKIN, SAMUEL DEEBLE , Trimmer (no. 4801TS), HMT Marion, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/02/1918, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial 6. WARMAN, WILLIAM EDWARD (33), Deck Hand (no. 1940DA), HMT Marion, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/02/1918, Son of John Hoile Warman and Esther Hoile Warman, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?177416
