Second Engineer Arthur Ernest Rumsey
Mercantile Marine. SS Manchuria Killed
17/10/1917

Son of Georgina Grace and the late James Rumsey; husband of Sarah Annie Rumsey (nee Patterson), of 1, Crimdon St., West Hartlepool. Born in Jersey.

Killed, aged 39 years

S.S. "Manchuria" (West Hartlepool), 2,997 tons, defensively-armed, 17 October 1917, 60 miles NW from Ushant, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 26 lives lost including Master.

Commemorated on
Jersey Mercantile Marine Memorial at Jersey Maritime Museum

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate