Name
Dennis Peter Christie
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/12/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sub-Lieutenant
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Surprise”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
20
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Ind Memorials. St Catherine & St Paul Church, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born on 27 Oct 1896 in Nazeing, Essex and baptised on 6 Dec 1896 in Hoddesdon son of Norman Peter and Katherine Elizabeth (Blake) Christie and was living in Myddleton House, Amwell Street, Hoddesdon in 1901.
He married Norah Allen on 6 Nov 1914 in St Mary, Finchley, London.
Wartime Service
He was already in the Navy in 1911 as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Isle of Wight and appointed midshipman in 1914 and Sub-Lieutenant in 1917. He was appointed to H.M.S. Surprise in Nov 1917 and was killed when three destroyers, Torrent, Tornado and Surprise all ran into a minefield near the Maas light off the coast of Holland in the North Sea. All three were sunk and about 250 men were lost.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Phil Holland
