ELSWORTHY, RICHARD WILLIAM Rank: Sailor Date of Death: 17/05/1943 Age: 28 Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy S.S. Northmoor (London) Panel Reference: Panel 74. Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of R. and Lily Elsworthy, of Hullhttp://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2786184/
UK, Merchant Seamen Deaths, 1939 -1953 Name: Richard William Elsworth (card attached has had the 'Y' added to his name) Age: 28 Birth Date: abt 1915 Birth Place: Hull, England Death Date: 17 May 1943 Death Place: At Sea Mother: Lilian TD
Noticed that several were killed on the same date so I searched a little further Northmoor (British Steam merchant) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net All those killed in the incident - Crewlist from Northmoor (British steam merchant) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net TD edited to add: Can someone explain why there are not the same number of MN names on the memorial as there are on the crewlist (yes I know and have not included the RN DEMS gunner) Arthur Peters the Master is not included on the memorial - why would that be?
North of Durban, the cargo ship Northmore 4,392 tons (Runciman Shipping Co) East Africa to the River Plate was sunk by U 198
A bit late, but this is the full crew list for the MV Northmoor (Stanley Rothwell was my grandfather): Peters, Arthur - Master Ablett, T J - Messroom Steward Anderson, Thomas W - Junior Engineer [Asst Engr] Arthur, John - AB Bark, George Hunter [?] - Deck Hand Bell, Arthur Douglas - Third Radio Officer Bettison, D H - Third Officer [3rd Mate] Burrell, Albert - Chief Engineer Officer † Chamberlain, E C - Fourth Engineer [8-4 watch] Christie, L - Bosun Cook, Joseph Douglas - Deck Hand Cooper, Charles - Junior Engineer [Asst Engr] Cowley, Joseph Greig - Apprentice † Elsom, O F - Apprentice Elsworthy, Richard William - Sailor [AB] † Gant, F W - Apprentice Garner, Walter - Deck Hand [Leading Seaman (DEMS gunner)] † Goodwin, J R - Second Radio Officer Grady, William V - OS Hines, J - Cook Johnson, Dennis - Junior Engineer [Asst Engr] † Johnston, Derrick G - Apprentice Jordan, R - Assistant Steward Jordan, Thomas D - Deck Hand Kehoe, James Francis - First Radio Officer † Lamb, William David - Second Officer [2nd Mate] † Lindberg, A - Carpenter Mangan, Bernard - Assistant Cook † Manley, Jospeh - Greaser [DBS Ex-British Resolution] McCaffrey, John Thomas - Bosun [DBS Ex-Holmpark] Owen, Francis James - Deck Hand Roch, Norman - Chief Officer [1st Mate] † Rothwell, Stanley - Second Engineer [4-8 watch] Seagren, Isaac - Able Seaman † Shaw, Charles - Greaser † Smith, Charles G - OS Venus, W - AB Whiteley, Samuel - Third Engineer Officer [12-4 watch] † Wright, R - Chief Steward
The Master, Arthur Peters was not lost in the attack. The crew lists on u-boat.net are really a work in progress and they are not accurate - only use it as a guide. Arthur Peters is shown on u-boat.net as a survivor. To answer your question more fully though, some names are recorded against other ships, for example, if a seaman was torpedoed and then rescued by another ship which itself was lost then the name would go against the ship that was lost. There are also other reasons why memorials are not up to date. Regards Hugh
It's also worth noting that in some cases uboat.net is "wrong" because the standard reference works are, but now we have access to previously unavailable documentation that shows otherwise. I've also just realised that I forgot to indicate that the other DEMS gunners were Bark, Cook, Jordan, and Owen. Most of the crew joined at Hull, but Peters replaced original master F G Nesbit there, and Alfred Greening (greaser) was discharged before sailing. F G Poole (AB) was discharged at Alexandria, where they dropped off the initial cargo of military supplies. John Arthur joined there a couple of days later, presumably as a direct replacement for Poole. Manley & McCaffrey joined at Lorenco Marques, where the ship picked up the coal cargo, bound for Argentina.
Reading all the names of the crew makes for sad reading. My Dad's cousin, Werner Eckardt, was a Diesel Mechanic on the U-Boat U-198.
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