Brickell C D Wireless Operator S.S. Polesley (London) Mercantile Marine

Brickell C D Wireless Operator S.S. Polesley (London) Mercantile Marine

BRICKELL, CECIL DOUGLAS, Senior Wireless Operator, H.M.S. Polesley, Royal Navy, eldest s. of Eli Brickell, of 7, Church Lane, Aldershot, by his wife, Edith (-); b. at Petersfield, co. Hants, 19 Jan. 1901; educ. Eggar’s Grammar School, Alton, and Aldershot Co County Secondary School; joined the Marconi Company in May, 1917, and after gaining his P.M.G. Certificate, served on H.M.S. Polesley 30 Sept. 1917, and was lost at sea when that ship was torpedoed off the coast of Cornwall 20 Sept. 1918; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5