Name
George Stratton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/10/1915
53
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Third Hand
Mercantile Marine
Steam Trawler Fitzroy (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
Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Son of the late George and Sophia Stratton; husband of Alice Stratton, of 184, Hope St., Grimsby. Born at Hertford.
Wartime Service
Fitzroy was a 132 GRT steam trawler completed in 1891 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd.for Ellis & Johnson of Grimsby and registered there as GY 375. By the time of her loss she was owned by Northwold Steam Fishing Co. Ltd. She was reported missing on 29 November 1915 and given the location and date was likely to have struck a mine.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Brian Watson, https://www.benjidog.co.uk/Tower%20Hill/WW1%20Fiscus%20to%20Florrieston.php
