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WHITLEY BAY

Schier, H.C., 3rd Eng., 1917

Photo Brian Chandler

On Tower Hill Memorial is the name of Third Engineer Herman Carl Schier, serving with the Mercantile Marine, who died 20/08/1917.

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

In loving memory of
Mother
Catherine Louisa Fortune
Died 27th Aug. 1918
Also her son
Herman Carl Schier (M.N.)
Died 20th Aug. 1917.

Herman Carl Schier is remembered in Victims of Piracy – Mercantile Marine Roll of Honour and on our List of Ships’ crews


S.S. Claverley
The CWGC entry for 3rd Engineer Schier

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk