World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Henry Archbold Wilson
Forename(s):
Henry Archbold
Surname:
Wilson
Initial(s):
H A
Service Number:
Mercantile Marine
Rank:
Fireman
Regiment:
Mercantile Marine, SS Marquette (West Hartlepool)
Died:
23/10/1915
Aged:
38
Buried:
Tower Hill Memorial, London
Service History:
Drowned as result of attack by enemy submarine.
SS Marquette was a British troopship of 7,057 tons which was torpedoed & sunk in the Aegean Sea 36 nautical miles (67 km) south of Salonika, Greece by the German submarine U-35, with the loss of 167 lives.
The ship was originally planned as the SS Boadicea, for the Wilson & Furness-Leyland Line, but was acquired by the Atlantic Transport Line shortly after completion to replace ships requisitioned during the Spanish–American War. She made a single voyage under the name Boadicea, & was renamed Marquette on 15 September 1898.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Marquette_(1897))
Background:
Born about 1877, at Chatham, Kent, the son of Hannah Wilson, of Prudhoe Court, Alnwick, Northumberland, & the late John Wilson.
Local Memorial:
Alnwick War Memorial
