Norman Hirst

In memoriam

Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield: HIRST, NORMAN. Engineer Sub-Lieutenant. Royal Naval Reserve. Royal Garrison Artillery. HMS Reliance. Born Huddersfield 29.4.1879. Son of Joseph and the late Lucy Ann Hirst, 'The Hawthornes', Thornhill Road, Marsh. Educated Longwood Grammar School and Huddersfield College School. He was apprenticed to Messrs Schofield and Taylor, engineers of Turnbridge, Huddersfield. He became a seagoing engineer with a firm of Glasgow ship owners, Glen and Co., in whose vessels he sailed for 12 years as Chief Engineer. On 23.8.1915 the ship on which he was serving, SS Trafalgar, was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans. On reaching England he enlisted in October, 1915, in the Royal Garrison Artillery, serving for two years in France with a Trench Mortar Battery and was twice wounded. On being recommended for a commission he was transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve on 11.7.1917. He died on board RFA Reliance, 9.10.1918 of natural causes, aged 39, at Mudros in the Aegean Sea. Norman has a cenotaph located Here Buried EAST MUDROS CEMETERY, LEMNOS. Grave location:- Plot 3, Row I, Grave 250. ROH:- St. Stephen's Church, Lindley; Huddersfield College School; commemorated in Salendine Nook Baptist Chapel yard, D434.

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