MADDOX Frank Ladbrooke

  • First Name(s):
    Frank 
    Ladbrooke 
  • Surname:
    MADDOX
  • Service Number:
    224189
  • Rank:

    Able Seaman

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Navy
  • Naval Service:
    Royal Navy
  • Ship:
    HM Submarine E18
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    11th June 1916
  • Age At Death:
    29
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, England, Panel 13.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Thomas and Sarah A. Maddox, 5 Regent Place, Bransford Rd., St. John’s Worcester

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MADDOX Frank Ladbrooke Is Named On These Memorials

Worcester Guildhall
Worcester St John in Bedwardine Church

Further Information About MADDOX Frank Ladbrooke

Native of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for navy casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

HMS E18 was sent to support the Russian Fleet and patrol the Baltic by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. The last contact with the crew of E18 was in late May 1916 when they made a report on a German ship they had attacked and damaged. The submarine remained on patrol and was never heard from again. It is thought that she struck a German mine or may have been sunk by gunfire from a German ship. All hands on board were lost.

The wreck of the submarine was found in the Baltic Sea in 2009 off the coast of Estonia, more than 90 years after she disappeared.

A photograph of Able Seaman F.L. Maddox can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 24th June 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.

A Memorial Service for The Men of Worcester and the Neighbourhood who have laid down their lives in the war was held in Worcester Cathedral on All Saints Day, 1916 at 7.30pm. Frank Ludbrooke Maddox, is listed on the Roll of Honour in the service booklet under Royal Navy.

Frank Maddox has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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