BORN HULL 1899. MOTHER CLARA SOPHIA (STEELE) LIVED IN SHEFFIELD. LOST AT SEA, AGED 17. HIS NAME IS RECORED ON THE TRINITY HOUSE MEMORIAL. AND THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR
SS North Wales, built by J. L. Thompson & Sons, Ltd., Sunderland in 1909 and owned at the time of her loss by Hugh Roberts & Son, Newcastle, was a British steamer of 4072 tons. On October 26th, 1916, North Wales, on a voyage from Hull to Canada in ballast, was sunk by the German submarine U-69 (Ernst Wilhelms), southwest of the Scillies. 30 persons were lost. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?12550
First name:
ERNEST
Regiment:
Rank:
Sailor
Date Died
24/10/1916
Place died:
Sea
Age:
17
9 CHARLOTTES TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
