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GEORGE ROBERT SCREETON
Kingston upon Hull HU2 9LG
England
BORN HULL 18/10/1895. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE SCREETON (1863-1932) & HANNAH ELIZABETH CATTLE (1860-1939), OF THIS ADDRESS & NORTH MARINE ROAD, FLAMBOROUGH. BROTHER TO GILBERT SCREETON (1899-1954). A MERCHANT MARINER. HE WAS CERTIFICATED IN SPECIAL SIGNALLING (MORSE & SEMAPHORE) ON 28/08/1916. HE WAS LOST ON THE CARGO SHIP, 'HILDAWELL', ON 20/12/1916, AGED 21. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL, NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON
Hildawell SS was a 2,494grt British Merchant ship built in1892. On the 20th December 1916 she was lost in the North Sea off Sunderland after hitting a mine laid by German submarine UC-32 when a voyage from Bilboa to Middlesbrough carrying a cargo of iron ore. 22 lives lost including Master.
1916 • St Oswald's Church, Flamborough, Yorkshire
Gravestone with his father & mother. Monumental Inscription: Also of our dear son/ George Robert/ who was lost at sea with/ the S.S. Hindawell, 2nd Novr 1916, aged 21 years
Greater London EC3R
England
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