Name
Roy James George McGee
23/04/1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/12/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Deck Hand
12469DA
Royal Naval Reserve
H.M.M.L. "No. 549."
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
26
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial to the missing at sea.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Chatham Naval Memorial
Pre War
Roy James George McGee was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on 23rd April 1898, son of George Muir McGee a, Mechanical Engineer and Mable (Child) McGee. The eldest of 3 children.
He was Baptised at St. James Church, Enfield Highway, Middex, on 21st August 1900.
1901 Census records Roy aged 2, living with his parents, at 202 Turners Hill, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census records Roy aged 12, at school and a Butchers Boy, living with his parents, sister Molly (7) and brother Terence (6) at, 56 Turners Hill, Cheshunt, Herts.
The family later moved to 23 Turners Hill, Cheshunt.
Wartime Service
Roy enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve in October 1916, giving his date of birth as 23rd April 1897, (trough date 23rd April 1898), posted to HMS “Vivid”, (a Shorebase) Devenport, Plymouth, on 9th October 1916, and issued with the service number 12495 D.A.
On 27th October 1916, he was transferred to HMS “Victory”, (a training establishment) Portsmouth, Hampshire. His first ship was HM Motor Launch No. 526. Serving aboard her from 18th January 1917. Transferring to HM Motor Launch No. 549, on 12th May 1917. While aboard HM Motor Launch No. 549, he was washed overboard and drowned in the North Sea, his body was never recovered, he is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent, to the missing at sea.
Additional Information
His mother was refused a Dependents Pension.
Roy is also commemorated on a family headstone in Cheshunt Burial Ground, his part of the inscription reads:
Also Of
ROY JAMES McGEE
THE DEARLY LOVED SON OF
GEORGE AND MABEL McGEE
DROWNED IN THE NORTH SEA DECEMBER 29TH 1917 WHILST SERVING HIS KING DURING THE GREAT WAR
THY WILL BE DONE
FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
