Boy 1st Class
BORN SCARBOROUGH 7/10/1899. FOURTH SON OF ISSAC ORR AND MARY JANE NELSON, OF 57 , WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. ENLISTED 02/05/1915. KILLED BY INTERNAL EXPLOSION OF HMS 'VANGUARD' AT SCAPA FLOW, ON 09/07/1917. AGED 18. COMMEMORATED AT CHATHAM TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, 25/07/ […]
7 LILlIAN TERRACE, WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
15/02/1915
Aged
15
BORN BLYTH, 1900. SON OF HENRY & ELIZABETH SWANSON. BOARDED AT 10 , WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL, (1911 CENSUS) AND 7 LILLIAN TERRACE, WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL. LOST AT SEA. AGED 15 YEARS. DEATH REPORTED IN HDM, on 26/02/1915* and 15/02/1918. The Scarborough Minefield During the First World War, nothing outraged the people of Yorkshire more […]
