Sumarine HMS H49
HMS H49 was a British H-class submarine built by William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir. She was launched on 15 July 1919 and commissioned on 25 October 1919.
In March 1937 the submarine navigated the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal in the company of the submarine HMS H33.[2] The trip had been arranged by Lieutenant A.F Collett, the 1st Lieutenant] of H33.
H49 survived until World War II when she was sunk on 18 October 1940, by depth charging by the German patrol craft UJ111, UJ116 and UJ118 (commanded by Wolfgang Kaden aboard UJ116) belonging to the 5th Anti-Submarine Flotilla off Texel, the Netherlands, on 18 October 1940. There was only one survivor, Leading Stoker George William Oliver from Hartlepool. He was rescued by German trawlers and spent the rest of the war as a POW.
26 men were killed and are missing since.
In the mid-1980s amateur divers who had violated H49's war grave status were prosecuted by the Dutch government.
Name: Coltart, Richard Evelyn
Rank: Lieutenant
Age:28
No.
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Dr. Guy H. Coltart and Mary Beatrice Coltart, of Fulham, London.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 36-3
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Peterkin, Claude Hamilton
Rank: Lieutenant
Age:28
No.
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of George Edward and Kathleen Peterkin; husband of Mary Peterkin, of Lewisham, London.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 37-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Caie, Ernest James
Rank: Leading Telegraphist
Age:39
No.C/J 72837
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of James Kenedy Caie and Caroline Caie; husband of Eleanor Jane Caie, of Eastbourne, Sussex.
Chatham Memorial Panel: 37-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Cripps, Ronald Victor
Rank: Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class
Age:31
No.P/MX 45268
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Charles and Ada Cripps; husband of Rosemary Violet Cripps, of North Lancing, Sussex.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 41-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Feary, Ernest William
Rank: Petty Officer
Age:30
No.C/J 114958
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of John Charles and Alice Feary, of March, Cambridgeshire; husband of Mary Elizabeth Feary.
Chatham Memorial Panel: 34-2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Hills, Fred George
Rank: Leading Signalman
Age:37
No.C/J 95282
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of William and Elizabeth Hills; husband of Eleanor Hills, of Stanmore, Middlesex.
Chatham Memorial Panel: 34-3
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Hull , John
Rank: Telegraphist
Age:21
No.P/JX 142391
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Sydney and Mary Hull, of Gateshead, Co. Durham.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 40-3
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Hull , John
Rank: Stoker 1st class
Age:25
No.P/KX 84888
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Abraham and Annie Simpson; husband of Dorothy Gwendoline Simpson, of Huntington, Cheshire.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 42-2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: West, Ernes Francis
Rank: Leading Stoker
Age:36
No.D/KX 76755
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Harry and Elizabeth West; husband of Iris May West, of Cwm, Monmouthshire.
Plymouth Memorial Panel: 40-3
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Carew-Hunt, Adrian
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant
Age:20
No.
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Captain Roland C. S. Hunt, C.M.G., R.N., and Thelma Reay Hunt, of Riding Mill, Northumberland.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 37-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Amery, Jack
Rank: Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
Age:
No.P/MX53237
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin: Malpas, near Newport, Monmouthshire.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 41-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Coleman, Frederick George
Rank: Able Seaman
Age:29
No.P/JX 129345
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Alfred and Elizabeth Coleman, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 38-2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Davidson, James Henry
Rank: Chief Petty Officer
Age:33
No.C/J 10851
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of James and Annie Bright Davidson; husband of Ivy Sarah Davidson, of Gillingham, Kent.
Chatham Memorial Panel: 34-2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Gasser Thomas James
Rank: Telegraphist
Age:19
No.P/JX 150266
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Thomas James Gasser and Elsie Maud Gasser, of North End, Portsmouth.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 40-3
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Gasser Thomas James
Rank: Telegraphist
Age:19
No.P/JX 150266
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Thomas James Gasser and Elsie Maud Gasser, of North End, Portsmouth.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 40-3
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Knowles, August Chambers
Rank: Leading Signalman
Age:33
No.D/J 105999
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of William and Annie Knowles; husband of Catherine Knowles, of Pendlebury, Lancashire.
Plymouth Memorial Panel: 39-2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Soar, Patrick James
Rank: Stoker 1st Class
Age:22
No.D/KX 89148
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:
Plymouth Memorial Panel: 41-3
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name:White, Clifford William
Rank: Able Seman
Age:
No. C/JX 150050
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:
Chatham Memorial Panel: 36-2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Dearden, Lionel Humphrey Lucas
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant
Age:23
No.
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Commander R. L. Dearden, R.N., and Hilda Marjory Dearden, of Winterbourne Houghton, Blandford, Dorsetshire; husband of Phyllis Gordon Deardon.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 37-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Boyles, Alexander
Rank: Petty Officer Stokes
Age:29
No.C/KX 80080
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin: Son of Alexander and Mary Ann Boyles, of Belfast.
Chatham Memorial 39-2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Cotton, William Arthur
Rank: Chief Engine Room Atrificer
Age:33
No.D/M 37090
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Husband of Elsie Mary Cotton, of North End, Portsmouth.
Plymouth Memorial Panel: 40-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Edmonds, Charles William
Rank: Able Seaman
Age:32
No.D/J108349
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Ellen Edmonds, and stepson of William Pole; husband of Audrey Amelia Mary Edmonds, of Plymouth.
Plymouth Memorial Panel: 37-2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Herrett, Donald
Rank:Stoker 1st Class
Age:21
No.P/KX 91849
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Richard and Harriet Herrett; husband of Elsie May Herrett.
Plymouth Memorial Panel: 42-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Hobbs, Henry Thomas Backwell
Rank:Able Seaman
Age:39
No.D/J 73247
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Henry and Louise Hobbs; husband of Elsie Isabel Hobbs, of Southsea, Hampshire.
Plymouth Memorial Panel: 37-3
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: McKay, Stewart Nichol
Rank:Able Seaman
Age:24
No.P/SSX 16985
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of William McKay, and of Margaret McKay, of Carluke, Lanarkshire.
Portsmouth Memorial Panel: 39-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Stevens, Robert
Rank:Able Seaman
Age:24
No.C/JX 138854
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Fredrick and Alice Stevens, of Walsworth, Hertfordshire.
Chatham Memorial Panel: 36-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.
Name: Goffe-Wood, William Frederick
Rank:Stoker 1st Class
Age:33
No.D/K 65955
Missing since: 27-10-1940
Next of Kin:Son of Edmund Thomas Goffe-Wood and Caroline Goffe-Wood; husband of Edith Ellen Goffe-Wood, of Tooting, Surrey.
Plymouth Memorial Panel: 41-1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in North Sea of Texel.