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CHARLES FENNELL PARROTT
Patrington WW1 Memorial Tablet, St Patrick's Church, Patrington. 111 men served and 24 died in WW1
BORN PATRINGTON, 02/05/1881. SON OF FENNELL PARROTT (1846-1924) & ANN ELIZA WATSON (1846-1948), OF "FIELD HOUSE", PATRINGTON. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS.
HE MARRIED RHODA SNAITH (1885-1969), AT PATRINGTON, IN JULY 1911. HIS WIFE RHODA (SNAITH) PARROTT, LIVED AT BROCKVILLE HOUSE, PATRINGTON HULL A FISHING SKIPPER. SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, ON THE MINESWEEPING TRAWLER, "ASCOT". DIED AT SEA ON 10/11/1918, THE DAY BEFORE WAR ENDED, AGED 37. HE LEFT £459 IN HIS WILL, TO HIS WIFE AT BROCKVILLE HOUSE, PATRINGTON, EAST YORKSHIRE (PROBATE ADDRESS).
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE PATRINGTON WW1 MEMORIAL AND AT ST PATRICK'S CHURCH.
HIS BROTHER, JAMES ARTHUR PARROTT, A HUMBER PILOT, DROWNED WITH HIS 19 YEAR OLD SON, IN THE HUMBER, ON 24/11/1916, AGED 44.
HMS Ascot has the dubious honour of being the last British loss of world WW1, one day before the armistice was signed. Torpedoed by UB-67 off the Farne Isles. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?64179
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