Age: 25years.
(Some records state 26yrs).
Born: Bonivista, Newfoundland.
Son of Arthur William and Sarah Marsh, of Dunfield, Trinity, Newfoundland.
Brother of 4 younger brothers & a sister.
MILITARY/RAF/NAVY/MERCANTILE, etc
Regiment/Service: Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve.
Unit/Ship: S.S Rio Verde (London) Battalion.
Service No: 1151X (British Army).
Rank: Seaman.
Casualty of the Great War.
One of five casualties of the sinking of this ship buried in this churchyard.
His ship was a defensively-armed British Merchant ship built in 1901 as the S.S.Austriana but renamed in 1915. She was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-86 when 4 miles West from Crammock Head, Mull of Galloway. The master and 19 crew perished.
(Additional information by Geoffrey Gillon).
His name may have been written as Walter Mesh;
On the Loyal Orange Association No. 12 and the Royal Black Preceptory No. 941 War Memorial in the Church Yard of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Trinity, Newfoundland there is listed Seaman Walter Mesh of Trinity, Royal Newfoundland Naval Reserve, drowned.
*I have located on behalf of Geoffrey, Walter's Cenotaph in Canada, please see:
Walter Marsh Cenotaph Memorial
________
First Name: W
Surname: Marsh
Date of Death: 12/02/1918
Fate: Killed.
Incident Details: Ship sunk.
Incident Date: 12/02/1918
Information: No. of Record 2758, NP1902/18.
Rank: Seaman
Service Number: 1159 X
Service: Royal Naval Reserve Newfoundland
Ship: Ss "Rio Verde"
Archive Reference: ADM104/149
Collection: Royal Navy register of Lost or Wounded 1914-1929
*
Update of information:
First Name: Walter
Initials: W
Surname: Marsh
DOB: Circa 1892
Age: 26
Nationality: British
Date of Death: 21/02/1918
Information:
SON OF ARTHUR AND SARAH MARSH, OF DUNFIELD, TRINITY, NEWFOUNDLAND.
Rank: Seaman
Service Number: 1151X
Service: British Army
Regiment: Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve
Battalion: SS "Rio Verde" (London)
Collection: The IWGC/CWGC Registers Collection
*
_____
Name: Walter Marsh
Rank: Smn
Birth Date: 12 Nov 1892
Branch of Service: Royal Naval Reserve (Newfoundland)
Cause of Death: Killed or died as a direct result of enemy action
Official Number Port Division: 1159. X.
Death Date: 21 Feb 1918
Ship or Unit: SS Rio Verde
Location of Grave: 145.
Name and Address of Cemetery: Kirkmaiden Churchyard, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Relatives Notified and Address: Mother: Sarah Dunfield Trinity Bay, Newfoundland
Source Citation
TNA Series: ADM 242/9; Scan Number: 0399
(Source: UK, Royal Navy and Royal Marine War Graves Roll, 1914-1919).
*
Burial: 25.2.1918.
Cert: 37.
_____
MEDALS
Victory Medal.
British War Medal.
(Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI - (Dead Man's Penny).?)
(Some records state 26yrs).
Born: Bonivista, Newfoundland.
Son of Arthur William and Sarah Marsh, of Dunfield, Trinity, Newfoundland.
Brother of 4 younger brothers & a sister.
MILITARY/RAF/NAVY/MERCANTILE, etc
Regiment/Service: Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve.
Unit/Ship: S.S Rio Verde (London) Battalion.
Service No: 1151X (British Army).
Rank: Seaman.
Casualty of the Great War.
One of five casualties of the sinking of this ship buried in this churchyard.
His ship was a defensively-armed British Merchant ship built in 1901 as the S.S.Austriana but renamed in 1915. She was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-86 when 4 miles West from Crammock Head, Mull of Galloway. The master and 19 crew perished.
(Additional information by Geoffrey Gillon).
His name may have been written as Walter Mesh;
On the Loyal Orange Association No. 12 and the Royal Black Preceptory No. 941 War Memorial in the Church Yard of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Trinity, Newfoundland there is listed Seaman Walter Mesh of Trinity, Royal Newfoundland Naval Reserve, drowned.
*I have located on behalf of Geoffrey, Walter's Cenotaph in Canada, please see:
Walter Marsh Cenotaph Memorial
________
First Name: W
Surname: Marsh
Date of Death: 12/02/1918
Fate: Killed.
Incident Details: Ship sunk.
Incident Date: 12/02/1918
Information: No. of Record 2758, NP1902/18.
Rank: Seaman
Service Number: 1159 X
Service: Royal Naval Reserve Newfoundland
Ship: Ss "Rio Verde"
Archive Reference: ADM104/149
Collection: Royal Navy register of Lost or Wounded 1914-1929
*
Update of information:
First Name: Walter
Initials: W
Surname: Marsh
DOB: Circa 1892
Age: 26
Nationality: British
Date of Death: 21/02/1918
Information:
SON OF ARTHUR AND SARAH MARSH, OF DUNFIELD, TRINITY, NEWFOUNDLAND.
Rank: Seaman
Service Number: 1151X
Service: British Army
Regiment: Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve
Battalion: SS "Rio Verde" (London)
Collection: The IWGC/CWGC Registers Collection
*
_____
Name: Walter Marsh
Rank: Smn
Birth Date: 12 Nov 1892
Branch of Service: Royal Naval Reserve (Newfoundland)
Cause of Death: Killed or died as a direct result of enemy action
Official Number Port Division: 1159. X.
Death Date: 21 Feb 1918
Ship or Unit: SS Rio Verde
Location of Grave: 145.
Name and Address of Cemetery: Kirkmaiden Churchyard, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Relatives Notified and Address: Mother: Sarah Dunfield Trinity Bay, Newfoundland
Source Citation
TNA Series: ADM 242/9; Scan Number: 0399
(Source: UK, Royal Navy and Royal Marine War Graves Roll, 1914-1919).
*
Burial: 25.2.1918.
Cert: 37.
_____
MEDALS
Victory Medal.
British War Medal.
(Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI - (Dead Man's Penny).?)
Age: 25years.
(Some records state 26yrs).
Born: Bonivista, Newfoundland.
Son of Arthur William and Sarah Marsh, of Dunfield, Trinity, Newfoundland.
Brother of 4 younger brothers & a sister.
MILITARY/RAF/NAVY/MERCANTILE, etc
Regiment/Service: Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve.
Unit/Ship: S.S Rio Verde (London) Battalion.
Service No: 1151X (British Army).
Rank: Seaman.
Casualty of the Great War.
One of five casualties of the sinking of this ship buried in this churchyard.
His ship was a defensively-armed British Merchant ship built in 1901 as the S.S.Austriana but renamed in 1915. She was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-86 when 4 miles West from Crammock Head, Mull of Galloway. The master and 19 crew perished.
(Additional information by Geoffrey Gillon).
His name may have been written as Walter Mesh;
On the Loyal Orange Association No. 12 and the Royal Black Preceptory No. 941 War Memorial in the Church Yard of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Trinity, Newfoundland there is listed Seaman Walter Mesh of Trinity, Royal Newfoundland Naval Reserve, drowned.
*I have located on behalf of Geoffrey, Walter's Cenotaph in Canada, please see:
Walter Marsh Cenotaph Memorial
________
First Name: W
Surname: Marsh
Date of Death: 12/02/1918
Fate: Killed.
Incident Details: Ship sunk.
Incident Date: 12/02/1918
Information: No. of Record 2758, NP1902/18.
Rank: Seaman
Service Number: 1159 X
Service: Royal Naval Reserve Newfoundland
Ship: Ss "Rio Verde"
Archive Reference: ADM104/149
Collection: Royal Navy register of Lost or Wounded 1914-1929
*
Update of information:
First Name: Walter
Initials: W
Surname: Marsh
DOB: Circa 1892
Age: 26
Nationality: British
Date of Death: 21/02/1918
Information:
SON OF ARTHUR AND SARAH MARSH, OF DUNFIELD, TRINITY, NEWFOUNDLAND.
Rank: Seaman
Service Number: 1151X
Service: British Army
Regiment: Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve
Battalion: SS "Rio Verde" (London)
Collection: The IWGC/CWGC Registers Collection
*
_____
Name: Walter Marsh
Rank: Smn
Birth Date: 12 Nov 1892
Branch of Service: Royal Naval Reserve (Newfoundland)
Cause of Death: Killed or died as a direct result of enemy action
Official Number Port Division: 1159. X.
Death Date: 21 Feb 1918
Ship or Unit: SS Rio Verde
Location of Grave: 145.
Name and Address of Cemetery: Kirkmaiden Churchyard, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Relatives Notified and Address: Mother: Sarah Dunfield Trinity Bay, Newfoundland
Source Citation
TNA Series: ADM 242/9; Scan Number: 0399
(Source: UK, Royal Navy and Royal Marine War Graves Roll, 1914-1919).
*
Burial: 25.2.1918.
Cert: 37.
_____
MEDALS
Victory Medal.
British War Medal.
(Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI - (Dead Man's Penny).?)
(Some records state 26yrs).
Born: Bonivista, Newfoundland.
Son of Arthur William and Sarah Marsh, of Dunfield, Trinity, Newfoundland.
Brother of 4 younger brothers & a sister.
MILITARY/RAF/NAVY/MERCANTILE, etc
Regiment/Service: Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve.
Unit/Ship: S.S Rio Verde (London) Battalion.
Service No: 1151X (British Army).
Rank: Seaman.
Casualty of the Great War.
One of five casualties of the sinking of this ship buried in this churchyard.
His ship was a defensively-armed British Merchant ship built in 1901 as the S.S.Austriana but renamed in 1915. She was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-86 when 4 miles West from Crammock Head, Mull of Galloway. The master and 19 crew perished.
(Additional information by Geoffrey Gillon).
His name may have been written as Walter Mesh;
On the Loyal Orange Association No. 12 and the Royal Black Preceptory No. 941 War Memorial in the Church Yard of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Trinity, Newfoundland there is listed Seaman Walter Mesh of Trinity, Royal Newfoundland Naval Reserve, drowned.
*I have located on behalf of Geoffrey, Walter's Cenotaph in Canada, please see:
Walter Marsh Cenotaph Memorial
________
First Name: W
Surname: Marsh
Date of Death: 12/02/1918
Fate: Killed.
Incident Details: Ship sunk.
Incident Date: 12/02/1918
Information: No. of Record 2758, NP1902/18.
Rank: Seaman
Service Number: 1159 X
Service: Royal Naval Reserve Newfoundland
Ship: Ss "Rio Verde"
Archive Reference: ADM104/149
Collection: Royal Navy register of Lost or Wounded 1914-1929
*
Update of information:
First Name: Walter
Initials: W
Surname: Marsh
DOB: Circa 1892
Age: 26
Nationality: British
Date of Death: 21/02/1918
Information:
SON OF ARTHUR AND SARAH MARSH, OF DUNFIELD, TRINITY, NEWFOUNDLAND.
Rank: Seaman
Service Number: 1151X
Service: British Army
Regiment: Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve
Battalion: SS "Rio Verde" (London)
Collection: The IWGC/CWGC Registers Collection
*
_____
Name: Walter Marsh
Rank: Smn
Birth Date: 12 Nov 1892
Branch of Service: Royal Naval Reserve (Newfoundland)
Cause of Death: Killed or died as a direct result of enemy action
Official Number Port Division: 1159. X.
Death Date: 21 Feb 1918
Ship or Unit: SS Rio Verde
Location of Grave: 145.
Name and Address of Cemetery: Kirkmaiden Churchyard, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Relatives Notified and Address: Mother: Sarah Dunfield Trinity Bay, Newfoundland
Source Citation
TNA Series: ADM 242/9; Scan Number: 0399
(Source: UK, Royal Navy and Royal Marine War Graves Roll, 1914-1919).
*
Burial: 25.2.1918.
Cert: 37.
_____
MEDALS
Victory Medal.
British War Medal.
(Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI - (Dead Man's Penny).?)
Inscription
(Naval Badge)
1159/X Seaman
WALTER MARSH
Newfoundland, RNR,
S. S. "RIO VERDE"
21st February1918 Age 26
(Cross)
The Righteous Shall Be Had
In Everlasting Remembrance
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