Wallace Helier Waugh, the son of John Wallace Waugh, and Eliza Waugh was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1872 and served during the Great War as a Steward in the Mercantile Marine.
He was killed in action when the S.S. Normandy was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-90 in the English Channel 8 miles from Cap de la Hague, France, on 25 January 1918, whilst carrying general cargo and mail from Southampton to Cherbourg. A number of the crew were rescued by a French destroyer, but 14 men, including Waugh, were killed.
He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial.
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