BORN PLYMOUTH 1876. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. The GITANO was posted missing in January 1919, lost with all hands, presumed mined after passing Flamborough Head on 20/12/1918. The master was engaged chiefly in the general trades to the Baltic and had been running regularly and continuously throughout the Great war. […]
Wireless Operator
88 EMBARKMENT ROAD, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, SOUTH WEST ENGLAND, UK
Area
Died on
21/06/1918
Aged
17
BORN PLYMOUTH 1901. SON OF MAUD MARY KNAPMAN & JAMES HENRY WILLIAMS, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SERVED AS A WIRELESS OPERATOR ON THE HULL STEAMER. LOST AT SEA ON 21/06/1918, AGED 17. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK SS Montebello, built by Earle's Shipbuilding […]
