Anthony Wallace Temple-Nidd

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• Newspaper Article: Missing, 1949, Battersea, London, Middlesex. Thames River Police today searched for Anthony Temple-Nidd aged 16, of 20 Honeysuckle Road, Southampton, cabin-boy on the Little John, a motor-yacht moored off Dewres boat yard Battersea. Anthony disappeared between 10 and 11.30 last night.
It is understood that he rowed two members of the crew to the shore. later the skiff was found tied up to the Little John, but there was no sign of the boy.
He could not swim, and the police assume that he fell overboard and was drowned.
WANTED TO GO TO SEA
Mrs. Temple-Nidd, Anthony's mother, told the "Echo" today that he had always longed to go to sea. Small for his age - four feet ten inches he found his ambition difficult to achieve until he answeredan "Echo" advertisement for a post on the Little John. It is believed that the yacht was to leave shortly for a trip to the Mediterranean.
"Anthony was very happy in his job." she said
Anthony's 17th birthday would have been next week. He had been with the Little John for six months. Previously he worked at the Odean Cineman adn the Polygon Hotel.
Anthony's father, who was for 17 years with the Cunard White Star died suddenly four years ago when serving as a paymaster-lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
There are five other children. Anthony's eldest brother is in the Army, and there are four younger

• Newspaper Article: inquest into Anthony's death on board the Little John, 1949.

• Occupation: cabin boy, 1949, Battersea, London, Middlesex. ^{1 2}