Photo: Brian Chandler

In Tynemouth (Preston) Cemetery is headstone which reads:

In
Sacred
and
koving
Memory
of
Peter Kemp,
Beloved husband of
Susannah Ross
Killed at sea by enemy action
Sept. 18th 1918, aged 50 years
Also Harry Lamond Ross,
Darling only son of the above
Lost at sea by enemy action
Aug. 24th 1917, aged 15 years
The above Susannah
1869-1960
Cissie Addison-Smith (nee Ross)
1898-1931

Harry was the son of Susannah Ross (nee Lambert), of 26, Tyneside Avenue, Monkseaton, Northumberland, and the late Peter Kemp Ross.

He was an apprentice (age 15), aboard SS Heatherside (Newcastle) which was an Admiralty-hired collier. It was torpedoed and sunk by U Boat U-93 on the 24th August 1917 in the Bay of Biscay. It was carrying a crew of 27, it was on a trip from Newport via Milford Haven to Malta carrying coal.

His father Peter Kemp Ross was killed in 1918.

Harry Lamond Ross is remembered on List of Ships’ crews

South Shields Grammar School
The CWGC entry for Apprentice Ross