Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.

Detail :

Gained his First Maste certificate on the 10th December 1896 at Salcombe, Devon and his Master's Certificate of Competency on 9th June 1898 at Plymouth.

CWGC shows "CHISSEL, Master Richard. "Treverbyn" 3rd Sept., 1917." Wrecksite EU elaborates: "On September 3rd, 1917, Treverbyn, on a voyage from Narvik to Manchester with a cargo of iron ore, was sunk by a mine from the German submarine U-75 (Fritz Schmolling), 2 miles ESE Ushinish lighthouse, South Uist, Outer Hebrides. 27 persons were lost."

Probate CHISSELL Richard of 3 Egerton-road Plymouth died 3 September 1917 at sea Probate London 20 November to Beatrice Maude Chissell £6595 17s. 4d.

Masonic :

At the time of initiation, Richard was employed as a Master Mariner and resident at 19 Clarence Embankment, Cardiff. The final annotation in the contribution register of the Lodge shows that he "Died September 1917."

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley