George Thomas Cleveland

An Apprentice with S.S. Arndale (Whitby), George died on 10th of June 1915 at the age of 17. 

George was born at Lowestoft in 1898, a son of James and Mary Cleveland. He was baptised at Saint John's Church, Lowestoft, on 24 June 1898 and his family lived at Laundry Lane. They were still living at Laundry Lane in 1901. By 1911 George's father had died and his mother lived at 4 Strand Street, Lowestoft. Later she lived at 3 Spurgeon Street, Lowestoft.

In 1915 George was a Merchant Navy Apprentice working on the cargo ship Arndale. The Arndale was sailing from Cardiff to Archangel, with a cargo of coal, when it struck a mine while in the Barents Sea, and near the White Sea. The ship sank but the crew took to the lifeboats. George, and two other apprentices, Arthur Redman and Edward John, were in the same lifeboat which capsized at Latitude 67.0 North Longitude 41.32 East. George and the other two apprentices drowned and were the only members of the crew to lose their lives.