BORN HULL 16/03/1865. A DEEP SEA FISHERMAN. MARRIED AT HULL, ON 16/08/1894. HUSBAND OF EMILY HEWSON, OF 27, MASSEY TERRACE, ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL (NAVAL ADDRESS). SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. LOST AT SEA, ON THE "ERIN", 19/10/1915, AGED 50. HIS WIDOW DIED ON 1ST MAY 1916.

HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.

HMT Erin II, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley in 1903 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 181 tons. On October 19th, 1915, HMT Erin II was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-5 (Herbert Pustkuchen), off the Nab lightvessel. 7 persons were lost. People on board People on board HMT ERIN II123 1. CAMPBELL, DONALD (31), Deck Hand (no. 390/SD), HMT Erin II, Royal Naval Reserve, 19/10/1915, Son of John and Flora Campbell, of 27, Geary, Waternish, Portree, Skye, Memorial: Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery 2. HEWSON, WILLIAM , Engineman (no. 638ES), HMT Erin II, Royal Naval Reserve, 19/10/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 3. JAMIESON, ROBERT GLEGG (47), Engineman (no. 741ES), HMT Erin II, Royal Naval Reserve, 19/10/1915, Husband of Catherine Jamieson, of 22, Stafford St., Aberdeen, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 4. LAVERACK, ALFRED , Trimmer (no. 863TS), HMT Erin II, Royal Naval Reserve, 19/10/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 5. PAYNE, ARTHUR HENRY (18), Trimmer (no. 880TS), HMT Erin II, Royal Naval Reserve, 19/10/1915, Son of Richard Arthur Payne, of 18, Massey St., St. George's Rd., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 6. SHERWOOD, WALTER , Second Hand (no. 474SA), HMT Erin II, Royal Naval Reserve, 19/10/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?146909