Josiah James Rowswell was a shipwright in Sheerness Dockyard and was working aboard HMS Princess Irene when it exploded ****ing all on board. His daughter, my mother, was just 2 months old when he was ****ed. His brother, Bertie, also died in 1918 and is buried in Wimeraux where Lt Col John McCrae the author of In Flanders Fields is also buried.

Michael John Harris