Remembered

On This Day, 15 February 1915

Charles Grant was lost at sea on this day in 1915

Charles was born in Nairn, 17 miles east of Inverness, Scotland, 9 August 1869. At the outbreak of the war, he was than living in Ingleton, near Kirby Lonsdale, Yorkshire. Charles was the husband of Catherine Grant (née Campbell).

He joined the Royal Navy in March 1885 on the HMS Impregnable and over the next 12 years served on various vessels including HMS Waterwitch, a survey ship.

Hms Waterwitch 1892 — HMS Waterwitch c 1897

In 1901 Charles was the First Petty Officer on the HMS Vindictive, he left the navy in August 1909.

Charles died aged 46 when his ship, the SS Membland hit a mine in the North Sea. The Membland was lost with 'all hands', and the crew of twenty are commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.

Tower Hill Mem Cwgc — Tower Hill Memorial, London

Ship's Steward Charles Grant, Mercantile Marine

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1 February 1915

Harold Clifton died of wounds on this day in 1915

Philip Arthur Blanshard died of wounds on this day in 1915

Oriel William Erskine Bannerman died of wounds on this day in 1915

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4 February 1915

Richard Apjohn Fitz Gibbon died of wounds on this day in 1915

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5 February 1917

John Huntley Wickham Stevenson died of wounds on this day in 1917

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6 February 1917

Leon Alfred O’Meara was killed in action on this day in 1917

Eustace Delano Fishbourne died of wounds on this day in 1917

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8 February 1917

Harold Courtenay Woollcombe-Boyce was killed in action on this day in 1917

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9 February 1915

Charles Grant was lost at sea on this day in 1915

Also remembered in February

Harold Clifton died of wounds on this day in 1915

Philip Arthur Blanshard died of wounds on this day in 1915

Oriel William Erskine Bannerman died of wounds on this day in 1915

Richard Apjohn Fitz Gibbon died of wounds on this day in 1915

John Huntley Wickham Stevenson died of wounds on this day in 1917

Leon Alfred O’Meara was killed in action on this day in 1917

Eustace Delano Fishbourne died of wounds on this day in 1917

Harold Courtenay Woollcombe-Boyce was killed in action on this day in 1917

Harry Clayton Alban was killed in action on this day in 1915

John William Backhouse was killed in action on this day in 1916

John Elvin Collett was killed in action on this day in 1917

Ivan William Garnett was killed in action on this day in 1916

John Fawcett was killed in action on this day in 1915

Richard Brown died of illness on this day in 1916

Edward Gordon Riggall was killed in action on this day in 1915

Charles Percival Paine died of illness on this day in 1915

John Jackson died of wounds on this day in 1917

Edmund Battye was accidentally drowned on this day in 1915

Cecil Henry Dundas died of wounds on this day in 1915

David Ronald Cross was killed on this day in 1915

Henry Francis Heatly was killed in action on this day in 1915

Leonard Ewbank was killed in action on this day in 1916

Gilbert Thompson was killed on this day in 1915

Colin Edward Cumming was killed on this day in 1915

Katy Beaufoy was killed on this day in 1918

John Barley died of wounds on this day in 1915

Robert Robertson was killed in action on this day in 1915

Gerald Jamieson died of wounds on this day in 1916

Arthur Moore died of wounds on this day in 1916