Name

Hugh Sands.

Description

Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Stoker 1st Class Hugh Sands.

Life Story

Name: Hugh Sands.

Service Number: SS/109990.

Rank: Stoker 1st Class.

Battalion: H.M.S Aboukir.

Regiment: Royal Navy.

Born: 19th February 1888, Johnson Ayr.

Died: 22 September 1914.

Address: 113 Fortingale Street, Belfast

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Hugh Sands, son of John and Mary Sands, lived at 113 Fortingale Street, Belfast

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Hugh joined the Royal Navy on the 7th July 1910.

He served on a number of ships throughout his career, including the following: H.M.S Pembroke II, H.M.S Diamond, H.M.S St George, H.M.S Hibernia, H.M.S Africa, before ending on H.M.S Aboukir.

Hugh, aged 26 years, was a Stoker 1st Class within the Royal Navy when while serving aboard H.M.S Aboukir he Drowned, Died At Sea, his ship having been attacked and sunk by German Submarine U.9 on the 22nd September 1914

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A local newspaper states.

STOKER HUGH SANDS, of 113 Fortingale Street, Belfast, who has been lost with H.M.S Aboukir. His brother, who is a corporal in the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, is a prisoner of war with the Germans

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A Pension Application Form shows his father as claimant.

Dependant Pension Application Forms show his father as claimant also. His father's address at this time is given as 11 Madras Street, Belfast

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William received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star

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He is Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial, United Kingdom.

To Remember Is To Honour

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