Additional general notes on the memorial
The deceased was born at St George's Vicarage, Millom on 5 Sep 1890. He was educated at Seascale Preparatory School and Loretto. He apprenticed as a broker with Messrs Smith, Coney and Barrett of Chapel Street, Liverpool, and then became a salesman with Bushby Brothers, cotton merchants of Oldhall, Liverpool. He was vice-captain of the Mersey Rowing Club, and played in the Birkenhead Park first rugby XV. He joined the RNVR as a Sub-Lieut, at the outbreak of war this force was transferred to the Royal Naval Brigade-in which he soobn became a Lieutenant in the Howe Battallion, serving in the defence of Antwerp before going to Gallipoli.