Son of William Charles Appleby and Edith Emily Appleby. Lived at 121 Hindle House Arcola Street Hackney where, 5 months before his death, a bomb had killed his mother. He was a Royal Navy DEMS Gunner aboard the merchant ship 'SS Bay Fisher' when it was bombed by an enemy aircraft and sunk 3.5 miles North East of Bell Rock Scotland. Of the ship's crew eight were lost including Appleby and four were rescued. Appleby is also remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
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Able Seaman Christopher Appleby
Commemorated ati
Hindle House - WW2 - first plaque - first appearance
To the memory of those who fell in the 1939 - 1945 world war. On active servi...
Other Subjects
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Arthur Howell Burden
Assistant purser on the RMS Lusitania. Son of John Howell Burden. Died when the ship was torpedoed. At the Lusitania Resource we found "Despite his having an actual burial place, the records of th...
War dead non-military, WW1
1 memorial
Anthony Beeton
A civil servant with the Northern Ireland office who had helped draft the Good Friday Agreement. He created the new human rights and equality commission in the province. Killed in the Ladbroke Grov...
1 memorial
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Hans Keller
Musician and writer, who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, as well as being a commentator on such disparate fields as psychoanalysis and football. From Holocaust Re...
1 memorial
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