Bernard Mcque Humble

An Engineman with H.M. Trawler Wyoming. Bernard died on 20th of May 1944 at the age of 28.

Bernard was born at Sunderland on 9 March 1916, a son of Harold Humble and of Elizabeth Humble (nee McQue). In 1921 his family lived at 2 Long Bank, Sunderland. 

From the mid-1930s Bernard was a seaman in the merchant navy.

Bernard married Marjorie Elsie Kathleen Ellis at Lowestoft in late 1939. Her address was 6 Margaret Cottages, Moyes Road, Oulton Broad, and Marjorie worked as a sausage maker. 

Bernard was serving on the Wyoming when the vessel struck a mine and sank twenty miles east-north-east of Harwich. Five members of crew, including Bernard, were killed.