Area: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

BORN NORFOLK 29/10/1890. SON OF CHARLES JOSEPH COOK (1860-1954) & CHARLOTTE ELIZA HANNANT (1863-1948), CATFIELD, GREAT YARMOUTH. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MARY'S, LOWGATE ROH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 26/08/1918. Cantatrice, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Ltd., Beverley in 1915 and hired at the time of […]

BORN HULL 1900. ENLISTED & LIVED IN GREAT YARMOUTH. SON OF MRS EMILY M. PEARCE ABOVE. CWGC ADDRESS.

BORN GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK, 28/02/1877. SON OF THOMAS & JANE SMITH (CWGC RECORDS). WIDOW MARY ANN SMITH. HE LIVED WITH HIS SISTER AT 13 LEES WALK, WALTON STREET, HULL. LOST ON THE FISHING VESSEL "KHARTOUM", ON 26/03/1916, AGED 37. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE LOST TRAWLERMEN OF HULL RECORDS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY […]

BORN HULL 30/3/1894. WIFE MRS M G GOFFIN - 9 MARKET PLACE, GREAT YARMOUTH. AWARDED SILVER MEDAL 'FOR ZEAL' WITH RIBBON (RUSSIA).

BORN GREAT YARMOUTH 1884. NAVAL RECORDS. LOST TRAWLERMAN OF HULL RECORDS. ADDRESS UNTRACED. The hull steam trawler MALABAR (H754) left Hull for a fishing trip in the North Sea on 20/12/1915 with 9 crew. She was last seen on January 1916 and posted missing:- lost with nine crew during severe weather. CREW LOST ON MALABAR (H754), enemy a […]

BORN HULL 22/10/1874. SON OF GEORGE WIGG, OF HULL. HUSBAND OF ROSINA WIGG, AT 16 NORTHGATE ST, GREAT YARMOUTH. HMD Ocean Plough, built by Crabtree & Co. Ltd., Great Yarmouth in 1912 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy drifter of 99 tons. On August 27th, 1916, HMD Ocean Plough was sunk by a mine fro […]