8 , DESMOND AVENUE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
30/09/1917
Aged
39
BORN HULL 28/03/1878. SON OF WILLIAM STEVENSON NEEDLER (1849-1917) AND ANNIE APPLEBY (1858-1899), OF 349 HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. SON OF A FURNITURE SHOP MANAGER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. A MASTER SEAMAN. HE JOINED THE MERCHANT NAVY ON 12/06/1895. RECEIVED HIS MASTERS CERTIFICATE, ON 02/02/1904. MARRIED JESSIE MAUD BILLETT, […]
2nd Lieutenant
BORN HULL 1890. THIRD SON OF GEORGE & ELIZA HARRIET OLIVER. A FORMER CLERK. HE LIVED WITH HIS OLDER SISTER MINNIE. ENLISTED IN 'C' COY, 7TH EYR. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. COMMISSIONED ON 26/06/1917. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/11/1917, AGED 27. HE LEFT £110 IN HIS WILL TO HIS SISTER, MINNIE FRANKLIN, 'SAVINGS BANK' THE WEIR, HESSLE AND TH […]
Steward
33 ORMONDE AVENUE, DESMOND AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
11/07/1916
Aged
39
BORN HULL 1877. MARRIED 1901. HUSBAND OF BEATRICE GILLETT SMITH (1878-1953), AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. DROWNED ON THE 'CALYPSO', ON 11/07/1916, AGED 39. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. Calypso SS was a 2,876grt British Merchant ship, built in 1904 by Earle's SB. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Hull and owned by T. Wilson, […]
