Stirling W D Lt HMS Monmouth Royal Navy

STIRLING, WILFRED DIXON, Lieut., Royal Navy, s. of Col. James Wilfrid Stirling, of The Grange, Rockbeare, Devon, now commanding 72nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, by his wife, Cecil Mary, dau. of Major-Gen. Dixon Edward Hoste, C.B., R.A.; b. Pennycross, near Devonport, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Cheltenham College, and passed direct into H.M.S. Britannia in 1901 and passed out 5th in his term in Dec. 1902, having been awarded the Diploma of Honour as selected Candidate of his term for His Majesty’s medal; entered the Navy as Midshipman, 16 Dec. 1902; promoted Sub- Lieut., 15 March, 1906, and Lieut., 16 June, 1907; served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Bacchante, under Capt. (afterwards Admiral Sir) Christopher Cradock; qualified as Navigating Officer in 1907, and acted in that capacity successively in H.M. ships Ringdove, Media, Attentive and Grafton; was Instructor in Navigation to Cadets at Dartmouth, Jan. 1913, to Aug. 1914; appointed Navigating Lieut., H.M.S. Monmouth (Capt. Brandt), Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

From many appreciative letters the following sentence is taken from that of a brother officer: “His was a glorious example, and if anything can lessen the terrible sorrow you and Col. Stirling are suffering it must be the knowledge that his life was well lived and his duty nobly done.”

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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.

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STEEL, JOHN, Mechanical Stoker (R.F.R., B. 1557), 276964; b. Dublin, 25 Dec. 18.., served in the European War, and was lost in H.M.S. Goliath at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915. He m., 22 Sept. 1900, Fanny (10, Harbour Village, Goodwick, co. Pembroke), dau. of (-), and had two sons: Richard John, b. 28 June, 1901; and Edward James, b. 31 Oct. 1906. He had the medal for saving life.

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Spittles T R Stoker 1st Class K/726 HMS Lynx Royal Navy

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Skinner P J L Sub Lt HMS Formidable

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