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 :

Sunk by U-93 commanded by Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim 195 miles SWxW of Fastnet 48° 43'N, 12° 35'W en route from Port Briera to Cardiff with a cargo of iron ore.

Commonwealth War Graves shows: "NASH, Ch. Engr. Alfred. S.S. "Horsa" (West Hartelepool). Drowned, as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine, 30th April, 1917. Age 54.. Son of the late George Henry and Mary Nash; husband of Mary Ann Nash (formerly Crallan), nee Tylor), of 7, Carlton St., West Hartlepool. Born at West Hartlepool."

His body was not recovered and is therefore commemorated on the Mercantile Marine Memorial.

Masonic :

In 1896, at the time of his initiation, he is listed as a 33 year old Marine Engineer, with a residence showing "13 H Jas. H." After 3 years of "a" (arrears/absence) the contribution record shows "Killed in action May 1917," slightly after the official record.

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