Regiment: Royal Navy HMS "Vanguard"

BORN HULL, 09/07/1897. SON OF CHARLES FREDERICK BIRKS (1871-1950) & ELLEN ISABELLA OCKLETON (1872-1940) AT 3 SABINA AVENUE, BALFOUR STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC. NAVAL ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 27/03/1913. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED, 09/07/1917, AGED 20. COMMEMORATED AT THE […]

Born Hull 03/11/1898. Mother: Annie 5, Hemmingway Court Meadow Lane Leeds. Naval Records. The eighth HMS VANGUARD of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship, an enhancement of the ´dreadnought´ design built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched in April 1909, commissioned into the Royal Navy at Devonport i […]

BORN HULL 020/6/1899. SON OF MINNIE W & TOM R BUTTERWICK. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY. BEFORE THE WAR, WORKED AS A TELEGRAM MESSENGER, AND MEMBER OF THE WELLINGTON TROOP SCOUTS, WHERE HE WAS A KING'S SCOUT AND PATROL LEADER. HE SERVED AS A TELEGRAPHIST. HE HAD JUST TURNED 18 WHEN HE WAS KILLED  IN THE HMS 'VANGUARD' EXPLOSION, ON 0 […]

BORN SCARBOROUGH 30/5/1877. ELDEST SON OF THE LATE HENRY COCKERILL & SARAH ANN COCKERILL, OF 41 BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. HE JOINED THE NAVY, AGE OF 15 AND SPENT 24 YEARS IN THE SERVICE. HE HAD COMPLETED HIS TERM TWO MONTHS AGO, BUT WHEN WAR CAME HE WAS RETAINED. HE A CHIEF PETTY OFFICER, IN THE ROYAL NAVY AND WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED B […]

Stoker 2nd class Royal Navy: Service number k/37221: British War Medal, Victory Medal. The 1911 census shows Albert working as a Waggoner at Bishop Burton; the family had been brought up at Halfpenny gate cottage on the Risby estate and had lived in Walkington for most of the nineteenth century. He attended school in Little Weighto […]

BORN HULL 19/01/1899. SON OF JAMES & HARRIET COOK AT 48, TADMAN STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). KILLED AT SCAPA FLOW, ON 09/07/1917, AGED 18. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE WALKER STREET MEMORIAL, IN HULL AND THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL.. The eighth HMS Vanguard of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship, an enhancement […]

BORN HULL, 21/05/1900. SON OF CLAUDE GEORGE COOPER & JESSIE ELIZABETH COOPER, AT 2 ALPHA TERRACE, CHESTNUT AVENUE, HULL AND 133 BROADFIELD ROAD, MOSS SIDE, MANCHESTER (CWGC ADDRESS). ROYAL NAVY BOY SAILOR. KILLED AT SCAPA FLOW WHEN HMS 'VANGUARD' INTERNALLY EXPLODED, ON 09/07/1917. HE WAS 17 YEARS OLD. The eighth HMS Vanguard of t […]

BORN HULL 19/07/1899. SON OF GEORGE & FANNY DOBSON GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. (NAVAL RECORDS). HE IS COMMEMORATED ON CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL. AGED 16. The eighth HMS Vanguard of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship, an enhancement of the ´dreadnought´ design built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. She w […]

BORN HULL 02/12/1888. WIDOW ELLEN FRYATT, OF GILLINGHAM, KENT. SON OF JAMES & MARY FRYATT, HULL. NAVAL RECORDS. The eighth HMS Vanguard of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship, an enhancement of the ´dreadnought´ design built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched in April 1909, commissioned into the […]

Son of Mrs Grantahm, Tymperius Hospital, Aldbrough. He is commemorated on the Aldbrough Viallage War memorial. Served as an Able Seaman, on HMS Vanguard which was destroyed in harbour by an explosion. HMS Vanguard was one of three St Vincent-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. […]

BORN SCARBOROUGH 7/10/1899. FOURTH SON OF ISSAC ORR AND MARY JANE NELSON, OF 57 , WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. ENLISTED 02/05/1915. KILLED BY INTERNAL EXPLOSION OF HMS 'VANGUARD' AT SCAPA FLOW, ON 09/07/1917. AGED 18. COMMEMORATED AT CHATHAM TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, 25/07/ […]

BORN LEEDS 23/02/1880. SON OF WILLIAM WAITE & EMILY PRINCE, OF 107 SPRING STREET, HULL AND "BURLEIGH HOUSE", 136 ST GEORGE'S ROAD, HULL. HE WAS A SERGEANT IN THE ROYAL MARINE ARTLLERY AND HAD SERVED 18 YEARS. HE WAS KILLED WHEN HMS 'VANGUARD EXPLODED AT SCAPA FLOW, ON 09/07/1917, KILLED 677 MEN. HE HAD ALREADY SERVED TWENTY MONTHS IN […]

BORN HULL 20/o3/1899. SON OF CHARLES & EMILY JANE RASPIN, OF 8 CARDIGAN AVENUE, DE LA POLE STEET (HDM ADDRESS, 19/07/1917) AND 10 , MONS STREET, MARLBOROUGH AVENUE, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS). KILLED AT SCARP FLOW, WHEN HMS "VANGUARD" EXPLODED IN HARBOUR. HIS BODY WAS NEVER RECOVERED AND HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL […]

BORN HULL 27/03/1895. WIFE GERTRUDE WHITTAKER. NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS. COMMEMORATED AT CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, KENT. The eighth HMS VANGUARD of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship, an enhancement of the ´dreadnought´ design built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched in April 1909, commissioned into the R […]