Regiment: Royal Navy HMS "Gurkha"

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Address
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11 CLAREMONT AVENUE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
08/02/1917
       
Aged
38
BORN HULL 12/09/1879. SON OF ELIZABETH GREENWOOD, AT THIS CWGC, NAVAL ADDRESS. COMMEMORATED ON THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL HMS Ghurka, built by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., Newcastle in 1907 and owned at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British destroyer of 880 tons. On February 8th, 1917, HMS Ghurka was sunk by a mine fr […]
8, FERN GROVE, CAVE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Died on
08/02/1917
       
Aged
21
BORN HULL 31/05/1896. ELDEST SON OF HERBERT EDWARD STONE AND FANNY STONE, OF 4, FLORENCE GROVE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL (NAVAL ADDRESS) AND 8, FERN GROVE, CAVE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HMS GURKA SERVED AS APART OF THE DOVER PATROL. SHE WAS SUNK BY A MINE IN 1917 WITH THE LOSS OFF 74 CREW. THERE WERE […]