Family :

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 :

David: Third Engineer George Henry GADD Jnr Mercantile Marine, SS Trocas The son of George Henry and Mary Jane Gadd of 72 Hartismere Road, Seacome, Birkenhead, Cheshire he was born at Liverpool. He died on the 19th January 1918 aged 24 and is Remembered on the Town Hill Memorial, London. The SS Trocas (4129grt) owned by the Anglo Saxon Petroleum Company was torpedoed by the German Submarine UC23, ten miles NE FROM Skyros light on a voyage from Abadan to Salonica.

Masonic :

His father G.H. Gadd Snr was a petitioning and founding member of Seacombe Lodge in August 1910. His son was initiated in 1917 which is 2 years after his father resigned from the Lodge.

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