St. Mary’s vicar, Arthur Adam Taylor Crosse, writes in the Waxham Deanery Magazines, March 1917:

“We have also received from the Admiralty the tragic news of the death of one of our sailors, Otto Cecil Mason, who, though recently living in Catfield, had his home in Hickling at the outbreak of the war. He was killed in the blowing up of H.M. Trawler, Sisters Melville, on February 13th.

Our deep sympathy goes out to his parents and to his wife, who only recently became a mother.”

David Belsten