Location: Tower Hill Naval Memorial, London, UK

BORN HULL 22/03/1881. SON OF LATE JOSEPH ALFRED WOOD (1850-1912) & HELEN MARION HARRISON (1859-1914), AT 8, MIDDLETON VILLAS, CLYDE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).  HE HAD TWO BROTHERS. JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE, ON 24/06/1896, AGED 15. A SAILOR AND FISHERMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, LIGHT BROWN HAIR, HAZEL EYES, TATTOOE […]

BORN HULL 1892. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS EDWIN WOODMANCEY (1868-1928) & GERTRUDE MARIA WOODMANCEY (1869-1940), OF THIS ADDRESS. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A FISH DOCK LABOURER. HE LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS. LOST WHEN THE 'KESTREL' SANK IN A COLLISION WITH THE GRIMSBY TRAWLER 'HYDRA', ON 21/02/1915, AGED 22. SEVEN LIVES WERE LOST. HIS DEATH AND […]

BORN HODDESDON, HERTS. 1877. WIFE SARAH WOOLMER LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. FISHERMAN. On 27/05/1915 the Hull steam trawler SOUTHWARD HO (H456) was lost with all hands due to enemy action 88 miles E.x N. of Spurn Head. Also reported as Missing, lost all hands. Vessel built in 1899 by Doig & Broadley. PEOPLE ON BOARD FISHING VESSEL 'S […]

BORN HULL 07/08/1861. MARRIED ALL SAINTS CHURCH, HULL CHRISTMAS DAY 1880, AGED 19. WIFE AMY ELLEN GIBBONS (1862-1928) & 7 CHILDREN LIVED ETON STREET, HULL. SON OF JOHN WORRELL (1840 -1894) & SUSAN ELIZABETH FOOT WORRELL (1842 -1898) - 154 PORTER STREET. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. Titania (H 903) FV was a British registered fishing vess […]

SS Tummel, built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Goole in 1912 and owned at the time of her loss by E. P. Hutchinson, Hull, was a British steamer of 531 tons. On February 24th, 1916, Tummel, on a voyage from Grimsby to Tréport with a cargo of coal, was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-5 (Ulrich Mohrbutter), 7 m […]

BORN HESSLE 1874. MARRIED AT ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, BOULEVARD, ON 20/04/1897. HIS WIFE ELIZA PADDISON (1875-1960) LIVED AT 8 SUBWAY STREET, HULL. SON OF GEORGE SELLERS (1842-1903) & ELIZABETH WRIGHT. A MARINE ENGINEER. LOST AT SEA, ON 09/05/1917, AGED 43. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. The fishing vessel, W […]

Second Mate, S.S. Thames, Mercantile Marine, †14/08/1917, (Served as MACDONALD). Son of the late Samuel and Charlotte Wright; husband of Honor Wright (nee Feeney), of 10, Villiers St. Sunderland and above address. Born in Ireland, 1876. Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial Thames SS was a British Steam Coaster of 403 tons built in 1910 by Goole […]

BORN ABERDEEN 1893. SON OF GEORGE AND ELLEN WRIGHT. HIS FATHER WAS A FISHERMAN. HIS MOTHER, ELLEN, WAS BORN IN HULL AND LIVED AT 60, MARMADUKE STREET, HULL. HE SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY AS A MARINE FIREMAN. HE MARRIED EMILY FRANCES SPINK (1896-1981), FROM 6 EDGAR STREET, HULL, AT ST BARNABAS CHURCH, HESSLE ROAD, ON 21/06/1914. THEY HAD […]

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 Bri […]

BORN HULL 1893. WIFE EMILY WRIGHT. SON OF ROBERT & SARAH WRIGHT. SERVED AT SEA. DROWNED AGED 24. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL NENORIAL AND AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL. S/S 'DURBAN', A steam trawler, built for the Humber Steam Fishing & Ice Co., Hull (H378). In December 1914 vessel Rqd by the Royal Nav […]

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. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDO […]