Steward
Frank HUMPHRY

Mercantile Marine
Died: 1st January 1919 - Age: 41

Commemorated:

1. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.126
2. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour7B GQS
    

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Early Life :

An detailed research has been conducted by David Earley and is available at: http://www.sussexpeople.co.uk/steward-frank-humphry/

Education & Career :

Storekeeper, Southampton (1903)

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: HMY Iolaire 

Iolaire was carrying sailors who had fought in the First World War back to the Scottish island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. She left the port of Kyle of Lochalsh on the mainland late on the evening of 31 December 1918. At 2:30 a.m. on New Year's Day, as the ship approached the port of Stornoway, a few yards offshore and a mile away from the safety of Stornoway Harbour, she hit the infamous rocks "The Beasts of Holm" and sank.

The death toll was officially put at 205, of whom 181 men were islanders but as the ship was badly overcrowded and there was a lack of proper records, the toll could have been slightly higher. John F. Macleod from Ness, Isle of Lewis, saved 40 lives, swimming ashore with a heaving line, along which many of the survivors made their way to safety. Only 82 of the 283 (officially known) passengers survived the disaster; 71 percent of the people on the yacht perished in the incident.

Action : Naval Accident 

During the war there were a number of Naval Accidents which we have isolated because of their shocking caualties and the corresponding impact on members of the craft. There were a number of vessels destroyed in port by explosions which we would today categorise as 'Health & Safety' failures.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : New Forest No. 319 E.C.Hampshire & IOW

Initiated
Passed
Raised
23rd July 1903
5th April 1903
13th June 1903
 

On 9 September 1902, Frank's brother, Samuel Hall Humphry (who had succeeded his father as the licensee of the Britannia Hotel) was installed as Worshipful Master of New Forest Lodge No 319 at Lymington. The installing master was John William Boggeln, a police inspector, the brother of Frank's future wife's then husband. The two worshipful brethren had been initiated together on 11 May 1897 and had progressed very rapidly together through the offices of the lodge.

Frank was initiated into New Forest Lodge on 23 July 1903, aged 26, when his brother was in the chair of King Solomon. He was passed to the Second Degree on 11 April 1905 and raised to the degree of a Master Mason on 13 June 1905.

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