Photo: Dorothy Hall
S.S. Cedarwood
Mary
Dear wife of
W.B. Bowles
Died July 13th 1897
Aged 50 years
The salvation of the world
Is in its nameless saints
Arthur Sydney
Her third son
Died Nov.8th, 1892, aged 23 years.
William Burwood Bowles
A most loving father
Died June 8th 1915
At Stockton-on-Tees
Aged 75 years.
. . . . . are in his hands.
Ernest Laurence Burwood
Their eldest son
Aged 50 years
Who lost his life Feb. 12th 1916
In the mining of the S.S. Cedarwood
During the Great War
(the rest is hidden under foliage)
SS Cedarwood ship number 125143, of 654 tons was mined 2.5 miles east of Aldborough Napes with the loss of 6 lives. It was on route from Middlesbrough to Fecamp with a cargo of pig iron. The operator was the Meteor SS. Co., Ltd. (R. A. Constantine & T. H. Donking), Middlesbrough, and the builder in 1907 was W. Harkess & Son, Ltd., Middlesbrough.
The mines were laid by the U Boat UC 4 commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Moecke
Ernest Laurence Burwood Bowles is remembered on our List of Ships’ crews
