Lieutenant William Trevor McCALLA Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. On H.M. Trawler Sisapon.
Born 16 November 1904, birth registered as William Trevor McCalla to William and Mabel Mary McCalla nee Douglas of Redburn, Bloomfield Belfast. Irish 1911 census. With his parents at siblings at 27 Holywood Road, County Down. His parents at the time of his death were residing at Greenoge, Strandtown, Belfast. Husband of Pamela McCalla, nee Cooper, of Amesbury, Wiltshire.
He made the supreme sacrifice aged 35 when the ship hit a mine and sank in the North Sea off Harwich with the loss of 11 crew on 12 June 1940. Commemorated on a family headstone at Christ Church Churchyard, Kilmore County Down, Northern Ireland. At rest in St Mary Churchyard, Shotley, Suffolk
Source for the following.
http://reservesandcadetsni.org.uk/sitefiles/resources/pdfs/braverecordissue9.pdf
McCALLA, William Trevor RNVR. Lieutenant.
Frequent Competitor in Ulster T.T. Races.
"E" Class Lap Record, 1935. Winner of Co. Down Trophy
Race, 1934. Director, W. McCalla and Co., Belfast, and
Proprietor, Ulster Steam Tender Co. Member, Belfast Local
Marine Board. B 16/11/1904. Son of William McCalla,
Issue 9 Page 16
Wills and Admin, Ancestry.
William Trevor McCALLA. of Tobar-Mhuire, Crossgar County Down died on date stated. His effects went to William Alfred Bathurst Douglas director, Geoffrey Charles Gordon Rea, solicitor and Henry Campbell company director, £529 16s 3d.
