
Able Seaman Walter Francis Henry Churchill
Mercantile Marine. S.S. "Whorlton"
(West Hartlepool)
12/01/1918
Son of George Francis Churchill, of 70, New Rd., Skewen,
Glam., and the late Amelia Elizabeth Churchill. Born
in Jersey.
Lost, aged 45.
On the 12/01/1918 the WHORLTON was on passage from
Dunkirk to Southampton when she was torpedoed and sunk
by the UB-30, in the English Channel, near the Owers
Lightvessel, with the loss of all hands.
Commemorated on
Jersey Mercantile Marine Memorial at Jersey Maritime
Museum
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record