Second Cook Lawrence Bradshaw
Regiment/Unit: Mercantile Marine - S.S. Beacon Light
Theatre of War: At Sea
Age at death: 28
Date of death: 19th of February 1918
Born: Birkenhead
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial -
BMD details:
Marriage registered 4th Qtr 1916 Lawrence Bradshaw to Gwendoline O Pain at Birkenhead, Cheshire. Vol 8a - Page 989/
Family details:
Son of the late Lawrence and Elizabeth Bradshaw; husband of Gwendoline Olive Bradshaw (nee Pain), of 101, Liverpool Rd., St. Helens, Lancs. Born at Birkenhead.
Census details:
1891 - 1 year old Lawrence is living at 4 Larch Road, Tranmere with parents Lawrence (28), Elizabeth (27) and three siblings: John H (8), Agnes (5), Alfred (3). Also at the address is Elizabeth's father - Edward Sidebottom (56). 1901 - 11 years old Lawrence is living at 3 Salisbury Street, Birkenhead with widowed father Lawrence (38) and four siblings: John (18), Agnes (15), Alfred (13), May (4). 1911 - Sees 21 years old 'Labourer' Lawrence living at 12 Rawcliffe Road, Birkenhead with relatived the Haygarth family.
BEACON LIGHT was a 2763 ton steamer completed as Yard No.559 by Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., Ltd., Newcastle in April 1890 for Beacon Light SS. Co., Ltd. (R. Stewart & Co.), Liverpool and measured 311ft by 40ft 2in.
In 1892 she was registered to R. Stewart & Co., Liverpool
1898 owned by Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Co., Ltd. Liverpool with C. T. Bowring & Co., Ltd. the managers
She was torpedoed and sunk by U 91 on 19 February 1918, 15 miles SE of the Butt of Lewis, while on a voyage from Liverpool with fuel oil.
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/BradshawLawrence_BeaconLight.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Tower Hill Memorial bearing the inscription for 2nd Cook Lawrence Bradshaw
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