WWII Naval Deaths

[ron81]

I can anyone help me

My Fathers  brother is listed on the War Memorial in Crail
Edmond Beaty RN

It seems i can find no record of him on any of the WWII sites

Could anyone be kind enough to maybe direct to where i might find this information
Thanks
Ron Beaty

[Wendi]

Hi Ron and a Warm Welcome to Rootschat 

You don't say which WW2 websites..........have you tried to find him on The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website ?

Wendi 

[ron81]

Hi Wendy   

Thanks for your reply & your welcome.its much appreciated

I have not tried the War graves commision , possibly my question , when i read it , reads a bit oddly

My first mistake it was WWI & he was in the Royal Navy, ,but i am maybe wrong. i thought they only recorded Airforce & Army

So i will have a look,Sorry for any confusion , senior moments seem to happen more often now

I have nothing else to go on apart from the date & year on the memorial

Many thanks for your reply, it is so encourging when someone does
Ron

[ron81]

Sorry
Wendi !!??

[Wendi]

No probs Ron, I have been on a bit of a Geography lesson  but I think I might have found something for you.

Crail is one of the most picturesque villages in the East Neuk of Fife.  Fyfe lies on the East Coast of Scotland........

So how about David Edmond Beaty, Wireless Operator in the Merchantile Marine, died on the SS Umgeni 9th November 1917,

Son of Alexander Swan Beaty and Euphemia McDonald Beaty (nee Edmond), of Station House, Longniddry, East Lothian. Born at Cambus, near Alloa.

Here is his entry on CWGC website

http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=2979443

Wendi 

[ev]

hi ron

welcome to rootschat 

"beaty, edmond
  native of crail
  presumed drowned when the vessel on which he was serving as
  wireless operator was sunk on november last"

east fife observer 21 feb 1918 , p3 (photograph)

ev

[ev]

hi all

1901 census
north british(railway station master home) scoonie fife
alexander s beaty 41 station master born england
euphemia wife 53(?) born crail fife
david e. son 3 born carnbee clackmannanshire

euphemia mcdonald edmond born 29th july 1867 crail fife(33 on census ?)
alexander & euphemia married 1897 crail fife

ev

[Wendi]

Nice one ev !!!

"beaty, edmond
  native of crail
  presumed drowned when the vessel on which he was serving as
  wireless operator was sunk on november last"

It would appear that the SS Umgeni left Clyde in a convoy for Lagos on 7th Nov. 1917, the convoy ran into bad weather a couple of days later, and the Umgeni was never seen again, but bodies and wreckage washed up along the west coast of Ireland. 

Wendi 

[ev]

hi wendi 

if it wasn't for the edmond i would never have found it(ancestry)
he was david on the census

on the 1891 alexander s beaty was station master at crail

ev