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

BENNITT, BROOKE HECTOR PERSHOUSE, Officer, S.S. Strombus, yst. s. of Samuel Bennitt, of Clent House, Harborne, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of William Robinson; b. Harborne, Birmingham, co. Warwick, 12 Jan. 1881; educ. Training Ship Conway and Sailing Ship Macquarie; joined the Mercantile Marine in 1899; joined British India Steam Navigation Company; was in Cunard Steamship Company for six years; after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, was engaged on transport work, and was present at the landing at Suvla Bay in Aug. 1915; was torpedoed in the Mediterranean when serving on S.S. Strombus in 1918, and died at Salisbury 23 Feb. 1919, of war strain and shell shock, incurred while on active service. Buried at Harborne. He m. at St. Augustine’s, Edgbaston, 26 May, 1910, Blanche Rose (527, City Road, Edgbaston), dau. of the Rev. Thomas Davis, and had two sons: John Hector, b. 8 March, 1912. and Thomas Frederick, b. 23 Feb. 1915.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5