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CHATER, Frederick Arthur
 | Rank: First Mate Year of death: 1917 Date of birth: 1851 (3rd quarter) Date of death: 16/02/1917 aged 64 Place of death: Service number: Regiment: Mercantile Marine SS “Lady Ann” (Sunderland) Medals: Cemetery location: Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough A.26.18 (CWG) Where remembered?: Tower Hill memorial,Trinity House Gardens, London |
Biographical Information
Son of William and Eleanor Frances Chater of Sunderland and Husband of the late Mary Ann Elizabeth Chater (nee Merifield) – married 1873
Frederick and Mary had five children
Eleanor Francis ( b 1874)
Bessie ( b 1876)
Frederick William ( b. 1885)
Emily Louise ( b. 1881)
The SS Lady Ann was on a voyage from Sunderland to Rochester carrying a cargo of coal when she was torpedoed off Scarborough and sunk by a German submarine on the 16th February 1917
Inscription
FIRST MATE
F.A. CHATER
S.S. LADY ANN
16TH FEBRUARY 1918