Sunday 14 January 1917 – We Lost 250
by greatwarliveslost
James Wilfrid Haynes Park
The special service ship HMS Penhurst (Commander F H Grenfell DSO) sinks the German submarine UB-37 in the English Channel. Two crew members of the Penhurst are killed.
Today’s losses include:
- Multiple sons of members of the clergy
- The son of a General
- A family that will lose three sons in the Great War
- A man whose son will be killed in the Second World War
- A member of the Essex County Constabulary
- A man whose brother will be killed next October
Today’s highlighted casualties include:
- Captain James Wilfrid Haynes Park (Sam Browne’s Cavalry Frontier Force) is killed in Mesopotamia at age 28. He is the son of the Reverend James Park Rector of Gosforth.
- Captain Frederick Herbert Cumberland Wilcox (Lancashire Fusiliers) is killed at age 28. He is the son of Major General E R C Wilcox who has already lost two sons in the Great War.
- Second Lieutenant Hubert Darrell Hughes (Welsh Fusiliers) is killed at Kut at age 19. He is the son of the Reverend Llewellyn R Hughes Chaplain to the Forces at Conway Camp.
- Corporal Frank Leslie Olver (Warwickshire Regiment) is killed. His son will lose his life in the Second World War.
- Lance Corporal William Martin (Scots Guards attached Machine Gun Corps) is killed. He is a member of the Essex County Constabulary.
- Private Joseph Westfell Heavan (Norfolk Regiment) is killed in action. His brother will be killed next October.
