Ernest's Story.
Birkenhead News 03 April 1915ANOTHER “FALABA” VICTIM.
Tranmere Young Man’s Fate.
A REMARKABLE DREAM.
Another local name has to be added to the list of the victims of the piratical sinking of the Falaba, news having been received in Birkenhead that Ernest Clare, aged 21, of 100, Church Road, Tranmere, was amongst the members of the crew drowned.
Young Clare, who was a clerk in the purser’s department, signed on the Falaba only two days before she was torpedoed, and this was intended to be his last voyage. A remarkable coincidence connected with his death is that before he joined the ship he had a dream that it was torpedoed.
He was very well-known and respected in the Birkenhead and Tranmere districts, and he was a fine athlete. He was a member of the old St. Mark’s F.C., and played both cricket and football for St. Anne’s School.
There is peculiar sadness in the bereavement that has now come upon the family, for it is only a year ago – in March, 1914 – that Mr. Clare’s father, Captain Clare, lost his life by falling from his vessel in Mostyn Deeps, North Wales.