Claim: Alfred Cheetham served as an admiral in the Royal Navy, the U.K's naval warfare force.
Evidence: Cheetham worked from his base in Hull as a merchant navy boatswain and a reservist for the Royal Navy. Cheetham enlisted in the Mercantile Marine and was serving as second officer on SS Prunelle when on 22 August 1918, he was killed when the ship was torpedoed in the North Sea by a German U-boat.