Stiling W C H Sig 216012 HMS Monmouth Royal Navy
STILING, WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY, Signalman, No. 216012, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Monmouth, eldest s. of the late Charles Henry Stiling, of The Minories, by his wife, Phoebe (7, Circus, Minories, Aldgate, E.), dau. of William Thomas Pugh; b. St. George’s, E., 1 Dec. 1885; educ. Sir John Cass’ School, Minories; enlisted in the Devonshire Regt., 25 June, 1901, but was claimed out by his mother (29 June), being only 15, and then in the 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade, but was again claimed out; joined the Navy as a Boy (2nd class), 19 July, 1901; became Boy (1st class), 5 June, 1902; Signalman, 2 Dec. 1903; Ordinary Signalman, 1 Oct. 1907; Signalman, 26 Nov. 1907; served in H.M.S. Impregnable, Vivid, Royal Oak, Cambridge, Hogue, Cornwall, Mars, Hibernia, Crescent, Orontes, Egmont, Sutlej and Monmouth (appointed 30 July, 1914), and was lost on H.M.S. Monmouth when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. His brother, Thomas Edward, Leading Seaman, served at the Dardanelles on the Swiftshire, and is now (1916) on active service on H.M.S. Royal Oak in the North Sea.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1