Post by KG on Jun 2, 2013 12:50:54 GMT
MM 13 year and nine months old WW1:
Sydney Cawsey was 13 year and nine months old when he worked as a cook on a merchant navy vessel during World War One.
The boat, which was mastered by his father John, would transport troops from Devon to Guernsey.
But, on March 1917, the young boy and his father were both killed when the boat was brutally shelled by a German submarine.
LINK: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330345/Boy-sailor-went-sea-father-just-13--BOTH-killed-German-U-boat.html#ixzz2UEK3jds6
The below is the youngest recorded casualty commemorated on Tower Hill WWI section:
JEFFRIES, Cook, REDAN SYDNEY, Fishing Vessel "Vanguard" (Lowestoft). Mercantile Marine. Presumed drowned 24th October 1917. Age 13. Son of Edith Maud Jeffries, of 26, Howard St., Lowestoft. Born at Lowestoft.
DS/BMcG.
Sydney Cawsey was 13 year and nine months old when he worked as a cook on a merchant navy vessel during World War One.
The boat, which was mastered by his father John, would transport troops from Devon to Guernsey.
But, on March 1917, the young boy and his father were both killed when the boat was brutally shelled by a German submarine.
LINK: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330345/Boy-sailor-went-sea-father-just-13--BOTH-killed-German-U-boat.html#ixzz2UEK3jds6
The below is the youngest recorded casualty commemorated on Tower Hill WWI section:
JEFFRIES, Cook, REDAN SYDNEY, Fishing Vessel "Vanguard" (Lowestoft). Mercantile Marine. Presumed drowned 24th October 1917. Age 13. Son of Edith Maud Jeffries, of 26, Howard St., Lowestoft. Born at Lowestoft.
DS/BMcG.