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 :

2nd Mate Certificate of Competency (Foreign Going Ship) 24th March 1902. Created at Temporary Sub-Lieut, recorded in The Globe 8th June and recorded in the London Gazette 15th June 1915.

The SS Dauntless was carrying coal from Newcastle to Bayonne when it was stopped and sunk by gunnery, 10 miles off Pointe-de-la-Coubre, Gironde by UB-39 commanded by Heinrich Kuestner, with 15 casualties.

A commemoration is made at the family grave in St. Lawrence, Jersey. Translated from French:

"Frank Houelbecq dies on the 19th day of November 1892 at the age of 48 years

as also of John Chevalier son of the aforesaid deceased on November 25, 1883 at the age of 11 years

Also Francis William son of the above-mentioned who lost his life at sea because of a German submarine on February 4, 1917, in his 36th year

Also from Jane Mary Pirouet widow of Frank Houelbecq deceased on January 28, 1930 in his 85th year."

Masonic :

Listed as First Mate in the 1921 Book, The Masonic Roll of Honour.

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