Died in the Great War
Mercantile Marine Wireless Operator
He was on the P&O mail steamer SS ‘Persia’, a defensively armed passenger vessel. She left Tilbury on 18 December and Marseilles on 26 December, bound for Port Said, Aden and Bombay. She was sunk by the German submarine U-38 commanded by Captain Max Valentiner on 30 December 1915 in the eastern Mediterranean 71 miles SE by S of Cape Martello, Crete. The attack occurred at 1.10 p.m., the vessel being struck on the port bow, blowing up the boiler. She sank quickly and 334 of the 501 persons on board were drowned. Four boats got away in safety.
Remembered with honour TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, London