BORN HULL 1861. SON OF LATE WILLIAM YOUNG & MARY ANN ASHTON. HIS WIFE ZILAH YOUNG LIVED GREYTHORN, WITHERNSEA. HE WAS EDUCATED AT TRINITY HOUSE SCHOOL AND HAD SPENT HIS LIVE AT SEA.
HE WAS PRESUMED DROWNED ON 30/04/1918, AGED 56.
HIS NAME IS REMEMBERED ON TRINITY HOUSE MEMORIAL, HULL.
COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON.
HE IS ALSO RECORDED ON THE WITHERNSEA WW1 MEMORIAL.
First name:
JAMES WILLIAM
Regiment:
Rank:
Master
Date Died
30/04/1918
Place died:
Sea
Age:
57
