Hubert James BASS

1886 - 15th Nov 1909

Life History

1886	Born in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
1909	Buried in Woronora General Cemetery and Crematorium, Sutherland, New South Wales, A Woronora General Cemetery and Crematorium Surname: BASS \| Type: Burial \| First Name: HUBERT \| Other Name: JAMES \| Date of Death: 15/11/1909 \| Location: Presbyterian Monumental \| Section: F \| Position 0027. [www.woronoracemetery.org.au]
28th May 1909	Emigrated from to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia RMS Orontes from London 28 May 1909 to Sydney
15th Nov 1909	Died in Cronulla Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

CauseOfDeath in Drowning

Name: Hubert James Bass
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1886
Registration district: Wycombe
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire
Volume: 3a
Page: 651
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. AUCKLAND
A double drowning fatality occurred at Cronulla Beach, near Sydney, last week. Two brothers, Sydney and Hubert James Bass, recent arrivals from Buckinghamshire, England, proceeded for a bathe from the shore at The Oaks Point. Hubert, the, younger, aged 23 years, had swum out some distance, and was apparently in difficulties. The elder brother, Sydney (sic), aged 30 years, noticing his brother's plight, and being a strong swimmer, went to his assistance. The occurrence so often happening in such cases was the result in this. The rescuer was grasped by the drowning man and both sank. An alarm was at once raised by the few persons about this spot, and two members of the Cronulla Surf Club, whose central quarters are fully a mile away at the beach where most of the surf-bathing takes, place hastened in a boat to the spot, and the position, of the bodies having been located Frank Giddings dived in, and after some difficulty, succeeded in releasing one of the bodies and brought it to the surface. All efforts at resuscitation proved futile."
[Poverty Bay Herald 27 Nov 1909]