Memorial at Spa, Belgium to George Krins d. 1912, musician on ‘Titanic’
Location
Old Cemetery, Spa, Belgium, Rest of the World
Transcript
'ICI REPOSE / MADAME VEUVE / LAETITIA-PETIT / décédé le 28 Avril / a l'age de 64 ans / MADAME / CATHERINE KRINS / DÉCÉDÉ LE 6 FEVRIER 1902 / A L'AGE DE 77 ANS / SUZANNE KRINS / NÉE EN 1899 DÉCÉDÉ EN 1917 / A LA MEMOIRE DE / GEORGE KRINS / NÉE EN 1889 MORT SUR LE / TITANIC EN 1912'
Memorial window at Worcester Cathedral commemorating Lieutenant Henry Whitcliffe Davies RNVR d. 1942 in the loss of HMS ‘Electra’
Location
Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England
Transcript
'IN . MEMORY . / LIEUTENANT R.N.V.R. / Drowned at the sinking of / H.M.S. Electra / In . the . Battle . of . Java . Sea / 27th . February . 1942'
Details
Type: Window Position: Cloisters Materials: Glass Vessel: HMS Electra
Event
Battle of the Java Sea
Event Date
1942
Event Category
1939-1945 Second World War
People
Davies, Henry Whitcliffe Age: 19 Date of Death: 27/2/1942 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Organisation: Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve
Extra
Recorder: B. Tomlinson 2018 Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Wall tablet at St David’s Cathedral commemorating John Barrett d. 1856
Location
St David's Cathedral, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN BARRETT / ORGANIST AND VICAR CHORAL / OF THIS CATHEDRAL / WHO DIED FEBRUARY 11 1851 / ALSO OF HIS SONS JOHN BARRETT / WHO WAS LOST AT SEA SEPTEMBER 1856 / AND ARTHUR BARRETT OF THE / BOMBAY EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT / DIED JULY 26 1898 / THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD.'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: South transept Materials: Marble
People
Barrett, John Age: unknown Date of Death: 9/1856 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: unknown Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Recorder: B. Tomlinson 2018 Photographer: B. Tomlinson 2018
Plaque at Clovelly, Devon commemorating the loss of 21 fishermen in 1858 and the founding of the Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society
Location
Clovelly, Devon, England
Transcript
‘Celebrating 175 Years of Supporting / Fishermen and Mariners - The / Fishermen and Mariners / Royal Benevolent Society / was instituted on 21st February 1859 / following the tragic loss in a storm / of 21 men from the Fishing Fleet / that sailed from Clovelly on / Sunday 28th October 1858 / To commemorate the visit of HRH The Princess Royal / Patron Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society / On Tuesday 6th May 2014 / To mark the charity’s 175th Anniversary’
Details
Description: Wal plaque engraved with a lugger and the house flag of the Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society. Type: Tablet Materials: Slate Date Erected: 2014
Plaque at St Andrew, Dowlish Wake commemorating Lieutenant John Huddy RNR d.1915 and Flight Sub-Lieutenant Charles Huddy RN d. 1921
Location
St Andrew's Church, Dowlish Wake, Somerset, England
Transcript
'IN . LOVING . MEMORY . OF / JOHN . HUDDY . LIEUT . R . N . R . / WHO . LOST . HIS . LIFE . IN . H . M . S . BAYANO / TORPEDOED . 11TH . MARCH . 1915 / also of / EDWARD . HUDDY . 2ND . LIEUT / 12TH . GLOUCESTERSHIRE . REGT : KILLED . IN . ACTION / AT . THE . BATTLE . OF . THE . SOMME . 29TH . JULY . 1916 / also . of / CHARLES . HUDDY . FLIGHT . SUB-LIEUT . R . N. . / WHO . DIED . 29TH . JUNE . 1921 . AS . A . RESULT . OF . INJURIES / RECEIVED . IN . AEROPLANE . ACCIDENTS . 18TH . JUNE . 1916'
Details
Description: Plain brass plate with border of double lines, squares in corners. Type: Brass Vessel: HMS Bayano
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Huddy, John Age: unknown Date of Death: 11/3/1915 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RNR Organisation: Royal Naval Reserve Huddy, Charles Age: Unknown Date of Death: 29/6/1921 Cause of Death: war casualty Rank / Occupation: Flight Sub-Lieutenant Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: HMS 'Bayano', armed merchant auxiliary cruiser, sunk by 'U-27'. Recorder: Norman Hammond
Memorial at Sandon Church, Staffordshire to members of the Dudley Ryder family including Captain Robert Edward Dudley Ryder VC, RN d.1986 and Major Ernle Terrick Dudley Ryder d. 1942
Location
All Saints Church, Sandon, Staffordshire, England
Transcript
'IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF / COLONEL CHARLES HENRY DUDLEY RYDER / C.B., C.I.E., D.S.O. LATE ROYAL ENGINEERS / EXPLORER & SURVEYOR GENERAL OF INDIA / BORN 28 JUNE 1868 - DIED 13 JULY 1945. / ALSO OF HIS SONS / MAJOR LISLE CHARLES DUDLEY RYDER / THE ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT. / BORN 31 AUGUST 1902 / KILLED IN ACTION AT LE PARADIS, FRANCE 27 MAY 1940 / BURIED AT LESTREM CEMETERY NEAR BETHUNE. / MAJOR ERNLE TERRICK DUDLEY RYDER / 2ND BATT: 1ST KING GEORGE'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES / BORN 18 APRIL 1906. LOST AT SEA BY ENEMY ACTION / OFF THE COAST OF JAVA IN FEBRUARY 1942. / CAPTAIN ROBERT EDWARD DUDLEY RYDER / V.C., ROYAL NAVY, POLAR MEDAL 1939, M.P. 1950-1955 / BORN 16 FEBRUARY 1908- DIED AT SEA 29 JUNE 1986'
Details
Description: Plain wall tablet with family crest top left and motto 'SERVATA FIDES CINERI' (Faith kept with my ancestor). Type: Wall tablet Position: North side of choir Materials: Stone Vessel: SS Ban Ho Guan, Watchdog
Event
St Nazaire Raid
Event Date
1942
Event Category
1939-1945 Second World War
People
Ryder, Erle Terrick Dudley Age: 36 Date of Death: 28/2/1942 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Major Organisation: King George's Own Gurkha Rifles Ryder, Robert Edward Dudley Age: 78 Date of Death: 29/6/1986 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Captain Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Major Ernle Terrick Dudley Ryder boarded SS 'Ban Ho Guan' following the fall of Singapore. The vessel foundered en route to Australia in February 1942, presumed sunk by Japanese submarine. Robert Edward Dudley Ryder was awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in the St Nazaire Raid and died on a sailing holiday on the yacht 'Watchdog'. His ashes are buried in Oxford. Recorder: B. Tomlinson 2018
Memorial at the British Cemetery, Ocracoke, North Carolina, USA commemorating HMT ‘Bedfordshire’ and her crew lost in 1942
Location
British Cemetery, Ocracoke, North Carolina, USA, Rest of the World
Transcript
‘IN MEMORY OF THE HMT BEDFORDSHIRE AND ITS CREW / DESTROYED BY TORPEDO FROM GERMAN SUBMARINE U-558 IN MAY 1942 / HMT BEDFORDSHIRE / AN ARCTIC TRAWLER, BUILT IN 1935 BY SMITH’S DOCK CO. / OF MIDDLESBOROUGH, ENGLAND. IN 1939 SOLD TO THE / ADMIRALTY AND CONVERTED TO AN ARMED TRAWLER. IN / 1942 IT WAS ONE OF THE 24 TRAWLERS LOANED TO THE / U.S. NAVY FOR COASTAL PATROL. ARMAMENT: ONE 4” GUN, / ONE MACHINE GUN AND DEPTH CHARGES / CREWMEN OF THE ROYAL NAVAL PATROL SERVICE ON BOARD / LT R.B. DAVIS R.N.R. COMMANDING OFFICER / SUB LT. N. CLUTTERBUCK R.N.V.R. / *SUB LT. T. CUNNINGHAM R.N.V.R. / SUB LT. B. HALL R.N.V.R. / FREDERICK W. BARNES – ENGINEMAN / STANLEY BENNETT – SEAMAN / ERNEST G. BOWEN - SEAMAN / EDWARD S. CARRUTHERS – SEAMAN / GEORGE W. CERRINO – LDG SEAMAN / WILLIAM F. CLEMENCE – SEAMAN / FRANCIS CRAIG – SEAMAN / *STANLEY R. CRAIG –TELEGRAPHIST JOHN R. DICK – SEAMAN / THOMAS H. DICKS – SEAMAN / ALFRED DRYDEN – SEAMAN / ANDREW W. DUNCAN – CH. ENG. R.N.R. / GEOFFREY FEATHERSTONE - TELEGRAPHIST / GEORGE H. FISHER – STOKER / HERBERT FORD – SEAMAN / JOSEPH KELLY – SEAMAN / WILLIAM LEE – LDG. SEAMAN R.N.R. / ERNEST W. LUKINS – P.O. STOKER / ALEX. A. MCCRINDLE – SEAMAN / ANGUS MCKENZIE – STOKER / FREDERICK F. MALTBY – LDG. SEAMAN R.N.R. / ERNEST N. MORTON – SEAMAN / WILLIAM J. MYERS – STOKER / SYDNEY W. SMITTEN –SEAMAN / PERCY E. STONE – SEAMAN / JOHN SWEENEY –SEAMAN / CHARLES T. TRAVELL - SIGNALMAN / THOMAS A. WATSON – SIGNALMAN / CHARLES W. WHITE – TELEGRAPHIST / LESLIE J. WILLIAMS – STOKER / RUSSELL DAVIS – SEAMAN R.C.N. / JAMES L. MCCAULTEY – SEAMAN R.C.N. / * BURIED HERe AT OCRACOKE N.C. WITH TWO ADDITIONAL MEN UNIDENTIFIED, THE OTHERS LOST AT SEA.’
Details
Description: Engraved black limestone, with profile of the ship, RN minesweepers badge and badge of the Hyde County Heritage Trail. Type: Memorial Vessel: HMT Bedfordshire
Event Category
1939-1945 Second World War
People
Davis, Russell Bransby Age: 29 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Naval Reserve Clutterbuck, Henry Age: 24 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Sub-Lieutenant Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Cunningham, Thomas Age: 27 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Sub-Lieutenant Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Hall, Bruce Age: Unknown Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Sub-Lieutenant Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Barnes, Frederick William Age: 31 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Engineman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Bennett, Stanley Age: 23 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Bowen, Ernest George Age: 22 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Curruthers, Edward Sydney Age: 20 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Cerrino, George Whiley Age: 24 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Leading Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Reserve Clemence, William Frederick Age: 21 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Cragg, Francis Age: 18 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Craig, Stanley R. Age: 24 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Telegraphist Organisation: Royal Navy Dick, John Rowan Age: 32 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Dicks, Thomas Maxwell Age: 28 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Dryden, Alfred Age: 32 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Duncan, Andrew Watt Age: 42 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Chief Engineer Organisation: Royal Naval Reserve Featherstone, Geoffrey Age: 21 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Telegraphist Organisation: Royal Navy Fisher, George Henry Age: Unknown Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Ford, Herbert Age: 34 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Kelly, Joseph Age: Unknown Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Lee, William Age: 30 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Leading Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Reserve Lukins, Ernest William Age: 37 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Petty Office Stoker Organisation: Royal Navy McCrindle, Alexander Allan Age: Unknown Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service McKenzie, Angus Age: Unknown Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Maltby, Frederick Francis Age: 31 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Leading Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Reserve Morton, Ernest Neil Age: 20 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Myers, William John Age: 34 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Smitten, Sydney William Age: 20 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Stone, Percy Ernest Age: 25 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Sweeney, John Age: Unknown Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Travell, Charles James Age: Unknown Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Signalman Organisation: Royal Navy Watson, Thomas Alexander Age: 26 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Signalman Organisation: Royal Navy White, Charles William Age: 29 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Telegraphist Organisation: Royal Navy Williams, Leslie Joseph Age: 28 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Naval Patrol Service Davis, Russell Age: Unknown Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve McCauley, James Lorne Age: 19 Date of Death: 11/5/1942 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
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Notes: With four Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones and the four original crosses cast by the T.A. Lovering Construction Co for the U.S. Navy and replaced by the CWGC in 1983. Photographer: Eric Ruff, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Gravestone in Borough Cemetery, Harwich, commemorating Reginald Thornton d. 1911
Location
Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, England
Transcript
'IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER THORNTON BOYD, WHO DIED 6TH MAY 1901, AGED 51 YEARS. / ALSO OF / REGINALD THORNTON BOYD / DEARLY BELOVED SON OF THE ABOVE / WHO LOST HIS LIFE ABOARD SS WIDGEON IN A COLLISION OFF NORTHFLEET / 19TH DECEMBER 1911. AGED 28 YEARS. / DEEPLY LAMENETED. BODY NOT RECOVERED. / ALSO / MARY JANE BOYD / DIED, 6TH MARCH 1937. AGED 86 YEARS'
Details
Description: Columns to side of the stone. Inlaid inscription. Type: Gravestone Position: Area B to right of path Materials: White marble Vessel: SS Widgeon
People
Thornton, Reginald Age: 28 Date of Death: 19/12/1911 Cause of Death: Vessel loss Rank / Occupation: unknown Organisation: unknown
Extra
Notes: SS 'Widgeon' sunk after a collision with an LCC sluice hopper. The Gravesend pilot and two of her crew were lost. Recorder: M E Manton 1997
Memorial in the Howff, Dundee, Scotland commemorating William Tosh d. 1813
Location
The Howff, Dundee, Scotland
Transcript
On the Front: 'Erected by David Tosh, Boatman, Dundee, in memory of his wife / AGNES HALL, / who died 25th Jan. 1842. aged 50 years; also their children / HELEN / who died 1st March 1821, aged 3 months; DAVID, who died 29th August 1820 aged 7 years. / William, who was drowned from the Schooner MARY of Dundee, off the Mull of Galloway, 8th June 1813, aged 17 1/2 years'. [On the back]: 'Weep not for me but be content, I was not yours but only lent, wipe of those tears and weep no more, I was not yours but gone before'.
Details
Description: Gravestone with a carving of a small ship sailing alone on a stormy sea above an inscription on the back of the stone with the primary transcript on the front. Type: Gravestone Vessel: Mary of Dundee
People
Tosh, David Age: unknown Date of Death: unknown Cause of Death: unknown Rank / Occupation: Boatman Organisation: unknown Tosh, William Age: 17 Date of Death: 08/6/1813 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: unknown Organisation: unknown
Extra
Recorder: Barbara Tomlinson Photographer: Barbara Tomlinson
Memorial in The Church of Holy Innocents, Great Barton, Suffolk dedicated to Arthur Edmond Allen, RN Telegrapher, d. 1943
Location
The Church of Holy Innocents, Great Barton, Suffolk
Transcript
TO THE / HONOURED MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE WAR / 1939 - 1935 / RICHARD ALDERTON / Flight Sergeant (Pilot) R.A.F.V.R. / ARTHUR EDWARD ALLEN / Telegraphist H.M.S. Dasher / SIMON DENIS FLEMING / Lieutenant R.H.A. (L.R.D.G.) / ALBERT RICHARD FULLER / Private 5th Btn. The Suffolk Regt. / HAROLD JOHN GILL / Private The Bedfordshire & Herfordshire Regt. / BRIAN KINDER NICE / Flying Officer R.A.F / CHARLES KITCHENER STIFF / Private The Cambridgeshire Regt.
Details
Description: marble wall tablet honouring seven men of the parish who died in WWII, words coloured black, names in red and ranks in brown. Vessel: HMS ‘Dasher'
Event Date
27th March 1943
Event Category
1939 - 1945 Second World War
People
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Notes: HMS ‘Dasher’, a naval aircraft carrier, mysteriously exploded on 27th March 1943 while in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, killing 379 of the 528 crew. Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan, July 1972
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
Wall tablet at St David’s Cathedral commemorating John Barrett d. 1856
