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 :

On 22/02/1917 when passage Tyne to Shoreham (870 tons coal) the JOHN MILES was torpedoed and sunk off Saltburn, by UB-21 whilst under the command of Franz Walther (later of UB-75). The explosion occurred on the port side, abaft of the main hatch; Vessel sank quickly by the stern with loss of ten of the 14 crew, including master.

See also: Wrecksite EU

VALLINT, THOMAS (41), Master, SS John Miles, Mercantile Marine, †22/02/1917, Son of the late Captain Thomas Vallint, of North Shields; husband of Charlotte Ellen Vallint, of 4, St. Leonards Terrace, Hove, Sussex, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial

Masonic :

Listed as "VALIENT" on the 1921, but corrected as "VALLINT" on the 1933 Masonic Rolls of Honour. He is listed on the contribution records of the United Grand Lodge of England as a Master Mariner, and resident at Wellington Road, Portslad, Brighton.

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