S.S.Falaba

[deano]

Hi

from Intake cemetery in sheffield, the inscription read's;

Albert,our dear and only child, was lost on S.S. Falaba.

Torpeod by German submarine, march 28th, 1915, aged 24 year's.

" Like sunshine he came and he is gone"

i thought i'd try here first to try and find his surname.

any help or pointer's appreciated.

regard's

Dean

[Coldstreamer]

cant answer that but in looking found this interesting web site

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discu...html?1129901438

[deano]

thank's for the link Coldstreamer, gonna have a decko now.

Dean

[Procat]

Hi

Albert,our dear and only son, was lost on S.S. Falaba.

Torpeod by German submarine, march 28th, 1915, aged 24 year's.

" Like sunshine he came and he is gone"

i thought i'd try here first to try and find his surname.

any help or pointer's appreciated.

regard's

Dean

This is the list of victim from The Times dated 31 March 1915. Whilst it does not list the first name it does list the initial. A start.

Doug

[deano]

Hi Doug

many thank's for the list

regard's

Dean

[deano]

Hi again Doug

5 name's on your list with A as first name.

Hall

Holdsworth

Gough

Harding

these four on CWGC site, no obvious Sheffield connection.

that leave's passenger, A.Burgess as favourite at the mo.

thank's again for the list

regard's

Dean

[Procat]

Hi Dean,

The 1901 census has:

Civil Parish: Sheffield

Ecclesiastical parish: Dyers Hill St Luke

County/Island: Yorkshire

Country: England

Registration district: Sheffield

Sub-registration district: Sheffield Park

ED, institution, or vessel: 16

Household schedule number: 132

RG13; Piece: 4372; Folio: 94; Page: 22

Address: 21 Grafton Street

Joseph Burgess, Head, Married, 30, Edge Tool Works Manager, Worker, Born Staffordshire, Burslem

Lillian Burgess, Wife, Married, 30, Born Yorkshire, Sheffield

Albert Burgess, Son, 10, Born Yorkshire, Sheffield

Free BMD has this:

Births December Quarter 1890

Burgess Albert Sheffield 9c 473

I would suggest going here: http://www.sheffieldfhs2.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?

and ask if anyone can check the Sheffield papers for you.

Edited: Just noticed you are from Sheffield.

Doug

[deano]

Hi Doug

brilliant! thank you very much.

i love to see the forum running like this!

best regard's

Dean

im off work next week so will check the paper's in the local studie's for any more info/photo's.

[per ardua per mare per terram]

Who is the rest of the memorial dedicated to? Are there records at the cementry?

[Kath]

Another man with Sheffield/Fabala link:

TOWER HILL

FITZGERALD, Steward, JOSEPH, S.S. "Falaba" (Liverpool). Mercantile Marine. Drowned, as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine, 28th March 1915. Age 23. Son of John and Mary Annie Fitzgerald, of 10, Dover St., Leicester. Born at Sheffield.

Kath.

[deano]

per ardua per ma - it was n't a memorial. it was just a broken up grave with no surname.

Kath,

thank's for the other Sheffield Falaba casualty.

regard's

Dean

[historydavid]

Hello Dean,

On 28th March 1915 the SS Falaba, built 1906, 4,806, was torpedoed and sunk by U 28, 38 miles W from the Smalls Lighthouse, St George's Channel, carrying passengers from Liverpool to Sierra Leone, owned by Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd of Liverpool and managed by the Elder Line. 104 people died, a mixture of crew and passengers.

No crew with the initial A are listed as being buried.

2 crewmen with the initial A are listed as missing, but both are older than your man.

So it would appear that your man Albert was a passenger.

Best wishes

David

[Esskay]

The Passenger List for the last voyage of SS Falaba is shown on FindmyPast - it includes (from the transcript view)

Name: Mr A BURGESS

Date of departure: 1 April 1915

Port of departure: Liverpool

Passenger destination port: Forcados, Nigeria

Passenger destination: Forcados, Nigeria

Age:

Marital Status:

Sex: Male

Occupation: Clerk

Passenger recorded on: Page 3 of 7

Ship::FALABA

Official Number:124000

Master's name: Fred Davis

Steamship Line:African S/s Co

Where bound:West Coast Of Africa, Africa

Square feet:

Registered tonnage:3011

Passengers on voyage:147

From the original image view it shows the date of departure from Liverpool as 27th March 1915 - fitting with the date of sinking

A link to a postcard picture of the Falaba - http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ElderD-1.html#anchor67991

And a different view of her - http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/a/1/2/doc/a12553.shtml

Cheers

Sue

[deano]

thank's David

thank's Sue

even more info!

Dean