The Legacy of the Laurentic

Seaman John Doyle RNR Service was the son of John and Anne Doyle (née Parle), born 2nd Nov 1882 Ballycleary, Kilmore, Wexford. John enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve on the 1st of December 1904. From April 1910 till October 1911 he worked as a fisherman at Kilmore then worked in the docks at Swansea…

Engineer Lieutenant George Henry Daymond, R.N.R. Born in 1886 at Waterloo, Liverpool and in October, 1914, his home address was 13, Oxford Road, Waterloo, Liverpool. He received his education at the Liverpool Institute, followed by an apprenticeship with the White Star Line. Once he had completed his apprenticeship, Engr. Lt. Daymond went on to serve…

Roscoe H. Oney, Greaser, Mercantile Marine Reserve, was the son of  Lincoln and Fanny Oney. He was born in June 1883 in Kansas, Illinois. Fanny, born 1873, in Pennsylvania, was his stepmother. We have been unable to find out who his birth mother was. Lincoln and Fanny Allen married in September 1891 in Greeley, Colorado…

Private George Goodall was the son of John and Polly Maria Goodall nee Reynolds. He was born in Apr 5th 1896 in Radford, Nottingham, the second oldest of nine children. His father was a lace maker. In 1911 George was an errand lad for an engineer’s and when he joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry…

Engine Room Artificer 4th Class, Frederick Balfour Gray Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, was born 12th October 1892 in Alva, a small town in Clackmannanshire, set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. He was one of six boys born to William and Margaret Gray. His father was a commission agent. Frederick was an apprentice engineer at…

Frederick Palethorpe was born in Bootle in 1895. He was the son of George and Elizabeth Palethorpe (née Brine) who were married at St.Mary’s C.of E. Church, Walton in 1877. George Palethorpe, a marine engineer, was born in Leak, Staffordshire and Elizabeth Brine was from Liverpool. Frederick was the second youngest of their nine children….

Able Seaman Robert Anderson Reid, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, was the son of Robert and Mary Reid (née Anderson) of 79 Earlspark Avenue, Newlands. Glasgow. His father was an upholsterer, born in Irvine, Ayrshire and his mother was from Haddington, Haddingtonshire (now East Lothian). He was born in Mount Florida on the 20th of September…

Thomas James Collacott, Petty Officer 1st Class, Royal Navy, was born in Devonport on the 9th of February 1872, to Joseph and Elizabeth Collacott (née Sowden). He was the eighth of their 12 children. His father, a dockyard labourer, was from Devon and his mother from Cornwall.   Thomas joined the Navy  in September 1887…

Lieutenant CommanderDouglas Roscoe Saxby-Thomas, Royal Navy, was born on 18th July, 1884, in Rangoon, Burma, the second of three boys born to George and Clara Thomas (née Saxby). When Douglas was born his father worked as an engineer for the Indian Public Works Department, in the British Burma State Railway. The family returned to England…

Private Edward James Hawkes (Ted) of the Royal Marine Light Infantry was born on the 14th of July 1898 in Hanworth, Middlesex to Edward and Annie Hawkes (née Cooper). He was the eldest of their eleven children.  His father, who worked as a Carman, was from from Horton, near Uxbridge and his mother was from…