Name
James Vereker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/07/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Deck Hand
Mercantile Marine
Steam Trawler Cheshire (Grimsby)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Ashlyns School Memorial, Berkhamsted
Wartime Service
Cheshire was a 148 GRT steam trawler completed in 1898 by Cochrane, Hamilton, Cooper & Schofield for North Lincolnshire Steam Fishing Co. and registered at Grimsby as GY 742. She sank on 7 July 1915 approximately 50 nautical miles East by South of Spurn Head after striking a mine.
Additional Information
Brian Watson, https://www.benjidog.co.uk/Tower%20Hill/WW1%20Cheshire%20to%20Cineraria.php
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
