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William Clifford Scarratt 1903 - 1943

William Clifford Scarratt of Platt Street, in Padfield, Derbyshire County, England United Kingdom was born on November 17, 1903 at Padfield 24 - Platt Street, in Padfield, and died at age 39 years old on April 11, 1943 in NL. William Scarratt was buried at Tower Hill Memorial Panel 63..

William Clifford Scarratt
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Platt Street, in Padfield, Derbyshire County, England SK13, United Kingdom
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November 17, 1903
Padfield 24 - Platt Street, in Padfield, Derbyshire County, England, SK13, United Kingdom
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    On October 22nd 1897,Glossop North End signed from South Shore FC a player named James Scarratt.(great grandfather) At the time he was living at 133 High Street West Glossop but by 1933 he was living at 24 Platt Street Padfield until he moved to 83 Platt St where he lived until his death,10th November 1933 after suffering an heart attack. He was born in Shropshire in 1868 and moved to Glossop in the 1890s.After retiring from football he took up a job as a bricklayer but he remained a scout for Glossop FC. My grandfather William,born here 17th November 1903 married my granny Hilda(Bower) 17th March 1939 at the Glossop Register Office,High Street West. My grandfather was 35 and my granny,a cotton weaver was 24. He died at 1.30am on the 12th of April exactly 70 yrs ago when his ship The Lancastrian Prince was hit by 2 German torpedoes just off the coast of Newfoundland

    My great grandfather James Scarratt lived at number 24 Platt St Padfield Derbyshire until 1933 when he moved to 83 Platt St where he lived until his death aged 65 in 1933. He was born in Shropshire in 1868 and moved to Padfield in 1901 where his trade was a bricklayer.He was also a keen footballer and a scout for Glossop FC. My grandfather William was born 17th November 1903 at 24 Platt Street Padfield.Married my granny Hilda(Bower) 17th March 1939 at the Glossop Register Office,High Street West. My grandfather was 35 and my granny,a cotton weaver was 24 and originally from Sheffield. He died at 1.30am on the 12th of April exactly 70 yrs ago when his ship The Lancastrian Prince was hit by 2 German torpedoes just off the coast of Newfoundland.
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    Padfield 24 - Platt Street, in Padfield, Derbyshire County, England SK13, United Kingdom
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    Merchant Navy (Rank: Able Seaman Regiment: Merchant Navy Unit/ship/squadron: S.s. Lancastrian Prince (london))
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William Scarratt & Hilda Bower, England
My grandads wedding license: William Clifford Scarratt married Hilda Bower on 17th March 1939.
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Date & Place: at Register Office in Glossop, Derbyshire County, England United Kingdom
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24 Platt Street Padfield Derbyshire UK where William Clifford Scarratt was born,17th November 1903.
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The newspaper of the day says my Granddad was only 29 when he died in 1943 and that he had only been in the merchant navy since the age of 16. Four websites that I've looked at all say he was 40 when he died. Thinking about it,he really couldn't have been 26 when he died and that 40 seems to make more sense. Maybe it was a cover up of some kind by the paper due to there being a war on. Who knows?

He was born at 24 Platt Street Padfield on the 17th November 1903 and in 1939 he married Hilda Bower at the Glossop registrar office.They had 4 girls and 3 boys including mother,Barbara Scarratt who married Gordon Dyson.

This is a description of what happened the day he died:

At 01.30 hours on 12 Apr, 1943, U-404 fired two FAT and two G7e torpedoes at the convoy ON-176 east of Newfoundland and heard one premature detonation after 19 seconds and three other detonations after 3 minutes 45 seconds, 6 minutes 12 seconds and 7 minutes 45 seconds. Bülow claimed two ships sunk and another damaged, in fact, only the Lancastrian Prince (Master Frederick Randell Elliott) was hit and sunk. The master, 37 crew members and seven gunners were lost.

I can only imagine the pain and fear he must have felt during those last moments and the sadness his wife must have felt upon receiving the news. I only knew my gran as an old woman and I never really got to chance to talk to her.
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Scarratt, Nell (Dec 23, 1913 - Apr 1990) Scarratt, Johnnie (Jan 5, 1903 - May 1959) Scarratt, Albert (Apr 16, 1886 - Jan 1966) Scarratt, William (Apr 4, 1925 - Nov 17, 2010) Scarratt, Lillian (Jul 3, 1886 - Oct 1973) Scarratt, Geoffrey (Sep 30, 1937 - Sep 1966) Scarratt, Sharon (Aug 16, 1945 - Jun 13, 1991) Scarratt, Raymond (Mar 26, 1954 - Jul 1974) Scarratt, Don (Jul 17, 1933 - Aug 20, 2006) Scarratt, Viola (Nov 4, 1883 - Aug 1971)
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