Able Seaman William Christopher Fielding
Mercantile Marine. S.S. "South-Western" (Southampton)
16/03/1918

Son of Philip John and Lydia Fielding. Husband of Daisy Ethel Fielding (nee Bassett), of 2, St. James's Place, St. Helier, Jersey. Born in Jersey.

Drowned, as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine UB-59, aged 34 years.

9 miles SW of the Isle of Wight. En route from Southampton to St. Malo.

Commemorated on
Jersey Mercantile Marine Memorial at Jersey Maritime Museum

 

(Photograph courtesy of John Valin, Great-Grandson )