BORN HULL 1/4/1886. SON OF CHARLES & ANNA WYSTHOFF OF NORWAY AND HULL. HIS WIFE FLORENCE SIMPSON WYSTHOFF (BORN 1/3/1886) LIVED AT 2, JOHNSON’S PLACE, PORTER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, CHARLES WILLIAM AND FLORENCE MARY.
HE WAS LOST AT SEA ON THE TRAWLER LUCKNOW WHICH WAS MINED 2 MILES FROM PORTSMOUTH ON 18/05/1917.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MONUMENT, KENT, AND LOCALLY ON THE WALKER STREET WAR MEMORIAL.
Lucknow, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley in 1903 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 171 tons. On May 18th, 1917, Lucknow was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-36 (Gustav Buch), off Portsmouth, 2 miles west of the Owers lightvessel. 9 persons were lost. PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT LUCKNOW
1. BALDWIN, HENRY ROBERT PATRICK , Engineman (no. 820ES), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, 18/05/1917, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
2. CREWS, CHARLES HENRY (25), Second Hand (no. 15422/DA), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, 18/05/1917, Son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Crews, of 31, Selby St., Lowestoft, Memorial: Lowestoft (Beccles Road) Cemetery
3. DODDS, GORDON (19), Ordinary Seaman (no. VR/2943), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, 18/05/1917, Son of Walter George and Martha Matilda Dodds of Armstrong, BC, Memorial: Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
4. MCCASKILL, WILLIAM HUGH (24), Trimmer (no. 5544TS), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, 18/05/1917, Son of Mary Ann McCaskill, of 62, Sunnybank Rd., Aberdeen, and the late John Fleming McCaskill, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
5. PETERS , Ordinary Seaman (no. VR/3161), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, 18/05/1917, Memorial: Halifax Memorial
6. SKELDON (25), Ordinary Seaman (no. VR/2586), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, 18/05/1917, Son of Mrs. Mary Skeldon, of 7, Maitland St., Ontario; husband of Mabel M. Skeldon, of 437, West 52nd St., New York, U.S.A, Memorial: Halifax Memorial
7. SMITH, JAMES , Trimmer (no. 5795TS), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, 18/05/1917, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
8. WOODHOUSE, GEORGE WILLIAM (37), Skipper, HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, 18/05/1917, Son of Arthur Woodhouse; husband of Alexanderina Duthie Woodhouse, of 13, East North St., Aberdeen. Born at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Memorial: Aberdeen (Trinity) Cemetery
9. WYSTHOFF, WILLIAM ANDREW (32), Engineman (no. 3480ES), HMT Lucknow, Royal Naval Reserve, 18/05/1917, Son of Charles and Anna Wysthoff, of Hull; husband of Florence Wysthoff, of 2, Johnson Place, Porter St., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
