On Tower Hill Memorial, London is the name of Second Engineer Joseph Sanderson Raffell serving on S.S. Gemma (London) with Mercantile Marine who died 19/10/1917.

The son of John and Elizabeth Raffel and the husband of Sarah Jane Raffell (nee Thomas), of 39, Coleridge Avenue, South Shields. He was born at South Shields.

In Harton (St. Peter) Churchyard is a family headstone which reads:

In loving memory of
Margaret
beloved daughter of
John H. & Ethel M. Steward
who died Sept. 12th 1935 in her 21st year.

Also the above
John H. Steward
died Oct. 28th 1938, aged 56 years.

Also Ethel M.
beloved wife and mother
died Feb. 16th 1963, aged 78 years.

Also Sarah J. Raffell
died Feb. 25th 1944
aged 67 years.
wife of Joseph S. Raffell  lost at sea
Oct. 19th 1917.

Joseph Sanderson Raffell is remembered at South Shields on S86.027 and S86.086,  in the Mercantile Marine Roll of Honour 1917 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.