On Tower Hill Memorial is the name of Chief Officer Reginald Clothier, serving on S.S. Maycrest (London) with the Merchant Nay who died 25/12/1941.

Angela Conroy has submitted the following:

In Whitley Bay Cemetery is a family headstone which includes:

Reginald Clothier
Lost at sea 25th December 1941.

There is another stone which reads:

In loving memory
of our mother
Edna P. Clothier
wife of Reginald
died 28th May 1950 aged 46.
Valerie and Reg.

Whitley Seaside Chronicle and Visitors’ Gazette Friday March 27 1942 reports:
LOST AT SEA
Mrs Edna Clothier, of Belsay Avenue, Whitley Bay has been officially informed that her husband, Captain Reginald Clothier, has been lost at sea.

While acting as chief officer on a ship bound from Iceland to New York he was swept overboard on Christmas Day and lost. Captain Clothier had resided in Whitley Bay for over (23?) years and was well known in the district. He was a native of Whitstable Kent.

Throughout the Great War he served at sea and in the present war saved many British soldiers at Dunkirk, to which his ship, homeward bound from New York was diverted.

During the Spanish War Captain Clothier was master of a vessel carrying food to Spain, where he survived bombing and machine gun attacks. He leaves two children a boy and a girl.

Reginald was the brother of William Henry Clothier

Reginald Clothier is remembered at Whitley Bay on W84.01 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.