Able Seaman Arthur Henry Rickett
Royal Navy. HMS Britannia
09/11/1918
Son of Charles and Annie Rickett,
of St. Helier, Jersey. Husband of Alice May Rickett, of 7, South Rd., Buckland,
Portsmouth.
Killed in action, aged 39 years.
Listed as missing
when HMS Britannia was torpedoed by submarine UB-50 of Cape Trafalgar, the last
British warship to be lost in the Great War.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Monday 18 November
1918
Twenty-Three Years at Sea - Drowned in
the Last Days of the War. It is with feelings of deep
regret we announce that news has been received in the
Island that AB A H Rickett who was serving on HMS Britannia
was drowned when that war ship was torpedoed off Gibraltar
on 9 November. It is an irony of fate that the sailor,
who is the eldest son of Mr & Mrs Rickett of 2 Victoria
Place, Rosemount, should have been within a few months
of completing his 23 years service and was looking forward
to a well earned retirement, but it has been ordained
that he should lose his life in the last naval disaster
of the war after passing unscathed through the campaign.
To the widow, who is left with four children, and other
relatives we offer our sincere sympathy.
