Leading Seaman, R.N.P.S.
LT/JX.176739
H.M. Trawler “La Nantaise”
13th February 1945, age 26.
On whose soul
Sweet Jesus, have mercy.
R.I.P.
George Wellden was born on 8th October 1918, the son of James Ellis and Mary Hay (nee McIntyre), of 66 Grenville Road, Gosforth; husband of Doris Maud Hay (nee Marriage) of Newcastle upon Tyne, whom he married in the second quarter of 1944. Prior to enlisting he worked as a ‘wholesale meat clerk’.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson
George Wellden Hay is remembered on our List of Ships’ crews