Tuesday 23 October 1917 We Lost 632

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HMS Melampus sinks the German submarine UC-16 off Selsey Bill.

Today’s losses include:

  • Multiple sons of members of the clergy
  • A family that will lose two sons in the Great War
  • A Military Chaplain
  • A man whose son will be killed in June 1944

Today’s highlighted casualties include:

  • Captain William Morrison MC (Royal Army Medical Corps) is killed in action at age 31. He is the son of the Reverend William Morrison.
  • Second Lieutenant Frank Wood (Sherwood Foresters attached Machine Gun Corps) is killed at age 19. He is the son of the Reverend James Hathorn Roworth Wood Vicar of Cropwell Bishop.
  • Second Lieutenant Thomas Malcolm (Highland Light Infantry) is killed at age 31. His brother was killed last year in Mesopotamia.
  • Chaplain the Reverend David Heggie dies on service in Ireland at age 33.
  • Bombardier Joseph Storer (Royal Field Artillery) is killed in action. His son will be killed during the invasion of Dunkirk in June 1944.