Education & Career :

Master Mariner, Rock Ferry, (1916).

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.

Detail :

HEDLEY, 2nd Mate John. S.S. "Palmella" (Liverpool). Drowned, as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine, 22nd Aug., 1918. Aged 36. Husband of Violet Hilda Hedley (nee Ovens), of 43, Silverdale Rd., Town Lane, Rock Ferry, Cheshire. Born at Liverpool.

Commemorated at the Mercantile Marne Memorial Part IV

Masonic :

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley