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WHITLEY BAY

Rowley, F.D., Eng.Lt., 1917

Photo Brian Chandler

On Chatham Naval Memorial is the name of Engineer Lieutenant Frederick Douglas Rowley, serving with the Royal Naval Reserve who died 24/08/1917.

In Whitley Bay (Hartley South) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

Treasured memories
of
Mary Severs Rowley
died Nov. 8th 1931, aged 15 years.
Frederick Douglas Rowley
Drowned at sea by enemy action
Aug. 22nd 1917 aged 34.

Frederick Douglas Rowley is remembered on our List of Ships’ crews


S.S. Heatherside
The CWGC entry for Engineer Lieutenant Rowley

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