Name
Dennis Peter Christie
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/12/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sub-Lieutenant
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Surprise”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
20
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
Separate Plaque in St Catherine and St Paul’s Church, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born on 27 Oct 1896 in Nazeing, Essex and baptised on 6 Dec 1896 in Hoddesdon son of Norman Peter and Katherine Elizabeth (Blake) Christie and was living in Myddleton House, Amwell Street, Hoddesdon in 1901. He married Norah Allen on 6 Nov 1914 in St Mary, Finchley, London.
Wartime Service
He was already in the Navy in 1911 as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Isle of Wight and appointed midshipman in 1914 and Sub-Lieutenant in 1917. He was appointed to H.M.S. Surprise in Nov 1917 and was killed when three destroyers, Torrent, Tornado and Surprise all ran into a minefield near the Maas light off the coast of Holland in the North Sea. All three were sunk and about 250 men were lost.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Phil Holland
