More about Robert William Savage

Robert W Savage was born in Kendall, Westmoreland and was the husband of Mrs Hilda Victoria Savage, care of Miss Ogilvie, The Plane Trees, Rankine Street, Dundee and also of 10 Patons Lane, Dundee. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve in Hull in November 1914 and was advanced to Wireless Telegraph Operator First Class in December. The same month he was drafted to HMS Newmarket, a steam passenger and cargo ship built in 1907 for the Great Eastern Railway Company, Harwich. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for use a minesweeper in October 1914. In July 1917, the German submarine UC-38 torpedoed and sank her south of Icaria Island in the Aegean Sea. Sixty three crew men died in the sinking and Robert Savage is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham in Kent.