William Dainty
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William Dainy (junior) was born in 1900 at Nottingham, he was the son of William Dainty (senior ) a cellarman and Alice Ann Dainty née Kilbourn of 70 Blackstone Street Nottingham.
His father William Dainty (senior) was born in 1871 at Nottingham, his mother Alice Ann Kilbourn was born in 1875 at Saundby, Leicestershire, they were married in 1897 at Nottingham they had 3 children.
In the 1911 census the family are living at 70 Blackstone Street, Nottingham, William Dainty (senior) 40 yrs a cellarman is living with his wife Alice Ann 35 yrs and their children, Joseph Leslie 5 yrs and Thomas Sidney 2 yrs also living with them is Lucy Frances Dainty 68 yrs a widow Williams mother.
In the same 1911 census we find that William Dainty (junior) has left the family home he is living at 10 North Terrace, Hexham, he is 11 yrs and a scholar, he is living with his unle and aunt Thomas Shield 48 yrs a drapers assistant and Mary Elizabeth Shield 41 yrs of age.
Mercantile Marine Reserve - Fieman William Dainty was killed in action on 21st January 1918 when he was serving on board the HMS Louvain when it was sunk
The SS Dresden was an English passenger ship owned by the Great eastern Railway Company operating between Harwich and the Hook of Holland between 1897 and 1915.On 29 September 1913 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer who invented the Diesel engine boarded the Dresden at Antwerp Belgium on his way to a meeting in London. He retired to his cabin about 22:00 with a request to be called at 06:15 in the morning but he was not seen alive again. Later a Dutch ship found a body floating in the sea and from the items and clothes recovered the remains were identified as Diesel's.
In 1915 Dresden was taken over by the admiralty as an Armed boarding steamer and renamed HMS Louvain. On 21 January 1918 she was torpedoed by a German U-boat SM UC-22 in the Aegean Sea with the loss of seven officers and 217 men. (Wikipedia)
On 20th January 1918, the British requisitioned passenger ship HMS Louvain was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Kea Channel, in the Aegean Sea, with heavy loss of life. A total of 224 men went down with her, including more than 70 Maltese naval ratings, making this incident the heaviest loss sustained by Malta during World War I.
William Dainty is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial
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Photo of William Dainty
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Photo of William Dainty
HMS Louvain