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In war the loss of life is always massive no more so than WWI. The navel battle at Jutland is often overlooked how is this possible? The Black Prince is often also missed out when talking about this battle. I feel an affinity with this ship after seeing the connection with it at Knowle church in 1995. so here I post about its loss on 31st May 1916.Today in 1916…the Battle of Jutland. 100 years ago, the greatest sea battle of World War One took place off the coasts of Norway and Denmark. Both sides claimed victory: although the German navy sank more ships and tonnage, the British forced the German navy back into port, maintaining a naval blockade of Germany for the rest of the war.
Its the small things I try to focus upon on days such as this. The immense loss of life and terrible pain felt by the multitude of humans experienced is just too big to comprehend. So here I post a memory of one ship. If you can understand the loss of one ship maybe then you can understand a feel how this must be multiplied by the whole war. The football team belonged to the Black Prince. The items are in Knowle parish church where the Sunday School had chosen to adopt this ship. The ensign was created by member of its crew and reached the Sunday school on the very day it was lost with all hands.
Many men from from Knowle parish many Sunday school attendees choir boys were lost in WWI both on land and at sea.
One was Frank Smitten RN who was aboard the Black Prince.
The flag a white ensign is inside a glass case in Knowle church was from the Black Prince. The Sunday school had adopted the ship.
The flag had been made by the sailors and it was delivered to the parish exactly on the day that the Black Prince was lost.
I wrote this in 1995 its pretty terrible now I think as my poetry has improved but I just wanted to share it as it is near the anniversary of the loss of the ship.
I just tried to update it a little..
No one survived the sinking of HMS Black Prince and no one saw her sink yet there are many accounts of sightings just before she met her end in pitch darkness in the middle of the night – sightings made possible by the fact that she was ablaze from end to end and drifting helplessly in close proximity to other ships.
Who shall honour our sailor-dead ?
Threshes and seethes so endlessly.
In the years ahead ?
And who shall tell where our soldiers lie ?
The place of our sailor-dead to tell ?
All the days to come.
The sea shall honour our sailor-dead !
And iron coast wheron, flung high, the North Sea breaks in foam.
Then oftentimes for our delight God sends a dream of Home.
To where the corn is standing deep above the ripening fields.
When redly glows the dusky sky and all the woods are still.
And o’er the fields now white with rime the company retires.
Ah, Life were but a little thing to give to keep her so!
Thomas P. Bonham, R. N.
Abbott, William, A.B. Alborn, Walter Cecil, E.R.A. 4. Algeo, John, Sto. 1.
Allen, Henry, Boy 1. Allen, William, Sto. 1. Allsop, Frederick Stanley, Boy 1.
Ambler, Arthur William, Armourer. Anderson, Alf. Geo., Of. Std. 3. Anderson, John, Sto. 1.
Ansted, Alf. Chas., A.B. Applin, Henry Cecil, Sto. 1. Archdeacon, Patrick John, P.O.
Armitage, George, Sto. 1. Armstrong, Alfred J., Pte. R.M.L.I. Arnell, William Arthur, A.B.
Ash, Joseph, Boy 1. Aspinall, Fredk. S., Pte. R.M.L.I. Atkin, William Herbert, Sto. 1.
Atkinson, William George, Sto. 1. Austin, Frank, Sto. P.O. Ayling, Alfred J., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Bacon, William Fredk., A.B. Bailey, Frank Alfred, A.B. Baker, George Edward, Sto. 1.
Ball, William Henry, A.B. Banks, Leonard, Boy 1. Barker, George Henry, Ld. Sea.
Barker, Philip Alan, Act. E.R.A. 4. Barnard, Francis John, Ld. Sea. Barnes, Chas. Fredk., Mech.
Barrett, Arthur Samuel, A.B. Barsby, Thomas, Pte. R.M.L.I. Barsdell, William, A.B.
Bartlett, William James, Act. E.R.A. 4. Barton, Robert, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Bates, Claude Leslie, A.B.
Batty, Charles Anthony, Sto, P.O. Batty, Wm. Edward, Sto. P.O. Bax, Arthur, Sto. 1.
Baxter, George Henry, Boy 1. Beacock, Frederick, Sto. 1. Beagley, John, A.B.
Beard, William Robert, Ld. Sto. Beasent, Joseph, Sto. 1. Beaumont, Henry, Ld. Sto.
Beaton, Albert Edward. Sto. P.O. Beckingham, Henry, E.R.A. 3. Beetson, Arthur, Sig. Boy.
Bell, Arthur, Sto. 1. Bell, Robert Fearn, Sto. 1. Bell, Thomas, Sto. 1.
E.R.A. 4. Berryman, Thomas, P.O. Bethell, Herbert, Sto. 1.
Bevan, John Daniel, Sto. 1. Bickers, George William, A.B. Biddlecombe, Charles, Sto. 1.
Billingham, Arthur, Act. Elec. Art. 4. Binns, Ernest, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Birchnall, Albert Edward, Sto. 1.
A.B. Bishop, David, Ord. Sea.
Bishop, James, Sto. 1. Biss, Alfred, A.B. Blackmore, Gerald Ackland, Sig. Boy.
Blandford, Sidney H., Pte. R.M.L.I. Blatchford, John Augustine, P.O. Bodman, Jacob Walter, Ld. Sea.
Boggust, Wm. James, Ch. Sh. Cook. Bonner, William, Pte. R.M.L.I. Booth, Albert Edward, A.B.
Ord. Sea. Bowley. Chas. James, Ld. Sto.
Bradford, Joseph Henry, Sto. 1. Bradshaw, Henry, Ld. Sea. Braginton, Wm., Shipwright 2.
(R.N.V.R.) Brennan, James, Ld. Sea. Brewer, Arthur John, A.B.
R.M.L.I. Briggs, Harry, P.O. Briggs, Henry. Ld. Sto.
Broadhurst, Harold Alfred, Boy 1. Brookman, Kenneth Douglas, A.B. Brooks, Robert, A.B.
Brown, Charles Edward, Sto. 1. Brown, Clarence Haman, A.B. Brown, George Brewer, Yeo. of Sigs.
Browne, Leonard, Elec. Art. 2. Buckland, Sidney Geo., A.B. Budgen, Archibald Sydney, A.B.
Buick, Leigh, Ld. Sea. Bulbeck, Wm. Alfred. Yeo. of Sigs. Bundy, Percival Charles, Plum. M.
Bunn, William James, Mech. Burden, Fredk. Geo., Mech. Burgoyne, William, Ord. Sea.
Burns, Peter, Sto. R.N.R. Butchart, Jeremiah, Ord. Sea. Butcher, Frederick, Ord. Sea.
Butler, Amos, Sto. 1. Butler, Ernest Edmund, A.B. Butler, Thomas Wm., Sto. R.N.R.
Butlin, John H., Pte. R.M.L.I. Cake, Ernest, P.O. Callaghan, Bernard, Pte. R.M.L.I.
Cameron, Percy, Sto. 1. Cameron, William Henry. Sto. 1. Carlile, Herbert, Sto. 1.
Carpendale, Reuben Benj., Sto. 1. Carpenter, Charles Henry, Sto. 1. Carter, Fredk. William, Sto. 1.
Cauchi, John, Of. Std. 1. Caulfield, Moses, A.B. Causton, Geoffrey Horace, A.B.
Chalk, George Henry, A.B. Champ, Herbert, A.B. Chandler, Walter Henry, A.B.
Charnell, Herbert George, Sig. Chappell, Horace James, Arm. C. Chester, Herb. John, P.O.
Chetcuti, Guiseppe, Of. Std. 2. Chipperfield, Wm. Fredk., Boy 1. Christal, John, Sto. 1.
Churcher, Henry J., Pte. R.M.L.I. Churchill, Arth. E., Pte. R.M.L.I. Clark, Harry, A.B.
Clarke, Arthur John, Sto. 1. Clarke, Ernest Edgar, A.B. Clifford, Henry Joseph, Ord. Sea.
Cochrane, Ernest Harold, Sto. 1. Cochrane, Wilfred Douglas, A.B. Cockerill, Joseph William, Sto. 1.
Codd, Harry, E.R.A. 1. Coggan, Harold William, A.B. Cole, Arthur Barker, A.B.
Cole, Wm. Henry John, Ld. Sea. Colebrook, Edwin, Ch. P.O. Collins, James, Sto. P.O.
Connor, Dominick, Sea. R.N.R. Conway, Harry, Pte. R.M.L.I. Cook, George Edward, A.B.
Cook, William Alfred, Sto. 1. Coombs, Harry. Ch. Sto. Cooper, Alfred William, Sto. P.O.
Cooper, John Hiram Ward, A.B.
(R.N.V.R.) Cooper, William James, A.B.
(R.N.V.R.) Cooper. Horace William, C.C.
Cope, George Henry, A.B. Copp, Ernest Fredk., Ch. P.O. Costard, Edward Charles, A.B.
Cotillard, Henry Louis, Sto. 1. Coulson, Thomas, Sto. 1. Courteney, Leonard, A.B.
Cousins, Thomas Alec. Geo., A.B. Cowan, Richard, Sto. 1. Coward, Thomas A., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Cowdrey, Alfred Albert, P.O. Cox, Ernest George, Ord. Sea. Cox, Frederick, A.B.
Cox, Maurice, Sig. R.N.V.R. Cracknell, Thomas Henry, Ch. Sto. Crawford, James, Sto. 1.
Crawshaw, Harry, Sto. 1. Credland, Herbert, A.B. Croft, Elimas Oliver, Sto. 1.
Cumner, William George, A.B. Cunningham, Michael, Sto. 2. Cuomo, Guiseppe, Bandsman.
Curran, Michael, P.O. 1. Cutler, Wm. Arthur Geo., Sto. 1. Dabbs, William, Pte. R.M.L.I.
Daily, James, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Dakin, John Herbert, Ord. Sea. Dalby, Thomas, Boy 1.
Dann, William James, Ld. Cook.’s Mate. Darby, Fredk. George, Sig. Boy. Dash, Herbert, A.B.
Davies, Albert John, Act. Ch. Sto. Davies, Wm. George, A.B. Davis, Alfred, Cook’s Mate.
Writer. Davis, Frank, A.B. Davis, Horace W., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Dawson, James, Sto. R.N.R. Dean, Albert, Sh. Std. Asst. Deller, James Albert, Act. Ch. Sto.
Denning, Christian E., Pte. R.M.L.I. Dennis. George, A.B. Dermedy, John James, A.B.
Dicken, Frank Ernest, Sto. 1. Dickinson, Edgar, E.R.A. 4. Dickinson, Fred Gordon, Boy 1.
Dicks, Robt. Wm. James, Act. Ld.
Sto. Ditchfield. Harold, Ord. Sig. Dixon, Charles, Sto. 1.
Dixon, Rich. Turnbull, Boy 1. Dixon, Robert Milburn, Boy 1. Dobie, James Mathison, Sto. 1.
Doick, Charles Frank, A.B. Dolphin, Charles James, A.B. Doncaster, William, A.B.
Done, Thomas, Act. Ld. Sto. Dowd, Thomas, Sto. 1. Down, Ernest, S.B.S.
Drake. Victor Wm. Walter, Boy 1. Drover, John E., Pte. R.M.L.I. Drube, Otto, Blacksmith.
Dugdale. Ernest Chas., A.B. Duggan, Bernard, Wireman 2. Duncan, William, Sto. 1.
Dunford, John, Sto. P.O Duquemin, Hilary Wilfred, Of.
Cook 3. Dyer, James, Pte. R.M.L.I.
Dyer, Thomas, Ch. E.R.A. 1. Dyer, William, Sto. P.O. Dykes, Charlie, Sto. 1.
Eachus, Walter. A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Eagleton, Alfred, A.B. Easen, John Arthur, A.B.
Ebsworth, Geo. Wm., Ld. Sig. Edginton, Henry Simms, Sto. 1. Edwards, Harry Thomas, A.B.
Edwards, James, Sto. 1. Ekin, Henry Richard, Wireman 2. Elledge, Henry John, Ld. Sto.
Elliott, Henry G., Pte. R.M.L.I. Evans, Alfred, Ld. Sto. Evans, Fredk. James, Ld. Sig.
Evans, Sidney, Sto. 1. Ewart, James Brodie, P.O. Exeter, Henry Marshall, Ch.
Writer. Exton, William, Ld. Sto Eyers, Ernest Harold, A.B. Eyles, Bertram Alfred, Pte. R.M.L.I.
Eyres, John Gilbert, Boy 1. Facey, Richard Enoch, Sto. 1. Fairbairn, John Edward, Plumbers Mate.
Faulkner, James Robert, P.O. Felton, Albert Edward, P.O. Fernot, Arthur, Ld. Sea.
Ferris, Reginald Jas. Fredk., Sh.
Std. Asst. Field, Arthur, Ld. Sea. Fisher, James C., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Fisher, Willie Sutton, Ord. Sea. Flack, Arthur, Pte. R.M.L.I. Fleetwood, Albert, Act. E.R.A. 4.
Fletcher, William, Sto. 1. Fletcher, Wm. Geo., Sto. P.O. Flower, Stanley Richard, Sto. 1.
Foam, Albert John, A.B. Ford, George, Sto. R.N.R. Ford, Richard, Pte. R.M.L.I.
Formo, Angelo, Bandsman. Foster, Henry, A.B. Foster, Walter, Sto. 1.
Fowler, Walter Charles, A.B. Fox, John Henry, Ld. Sto. Francis, Albert, Bov 1.
French, Edward John, A.B. French, Richard G., Pte. R.M.L.I. Freshwater, Wm. H., Boy 1.
Fudge. Alfred Harry, A.B. Garritty, Michael, Sto. 1. Gaskin, Luke, Pte. R.M.L.I.
George John, Sto. 1. George, John Reg., Act. E.R.A. 4. Gibbins, George W., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Gibbons, James Thomas, Ord. Sea. Gilbert, Burnham Wm., Sto. 1. Gilbert, Harold Thos.. Ord. Sea.
Gilbert, Horace James, Ord. Sea.
(R.N.V.R.) Gill, Harry Charles., Elec. Art. 3. Gillett, Wm., Ld. Sea.
Gillibrand, Roy Harold, A.B. Gingell, Joseph F., Pte. R.M.L I. Ginger, Edward, A.B.
Godwin, Wm. James, Ld. Sto. Goodchild, Arthur, Pte. R.M.L.I. Goodwin, John, Sto. 1.
Goodyear, Harry Edward, A.B. Cover, Samuel Henry, Mech. Grant, Frank, Arm. Mte.
Grasso, Luigi, Bandsman. Green, Charles James, Cooper. Green, Francis Albert, A. B.
Green, George, Pte. R.M.L.I. Green, Sydney Laurence, A.B. Green, Thomas, Sto. 1.
R.N.R. Gregory, Francis, Ld. Sto. Griffiths, John Henry, A.B.
Grimes, Fredk. Thos., Boy 1. Gritt, James Alfred, Act Ld. Sto. Grossmith, Fred. James, Ord. Sea.
Grossmith, John Albert, A.B. Guinta, Constantino, Bandsman. Gull, Douglas Harry, Sto. 1.
Gullett, James Anthony, Sig. Boy. Gulvin, Leonard Gordon, A.B. Gunner, Chris. J., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Haizelden, James Charles. A.B. Hake, Fredk. Geo. Beames, A.B. Halford, William, Arm. Crew.
Hall, John T., Mech. Hallam, George Fredk. Bertie, A.B. Hamill, Thos., Sto. 1.
Hamilton, Lawrence, Sto. R.N.R. Hamilton, Richard, Sto. R.N.R. Hannan, Edw. Wm. Jos., Sto. P.O.
Hansford, Reginald Gordon, A.B. Harman, Charles Fredk., Tel. Harper, Wm. John, Sto. 1.
Harris, Wilfred J., Pte. R.M.L.I. Harrison, Albert Edward, Cook’s Mte. Harrison, John, Sto. 1.
Hart, Joseph, Sto. 1. Hartwell, Norman Leslie, A.B. Hawkins, Wm. Edward, Sto. 1.
Haynes, Edward, Sto. 1. Head, Ernest Albert, A.B. Heath, John Thomas, Ch. P.O.
Hellier, George Wm.. E.R.A. 3. Hellyer, Henry, Sto. P.O. Henderson, Henry James, Ld. Sea.
Herrington, Herbert, A.B. Herrod, Arthur, A.B. Heywood, Samuel, Sto. P.O.
Pte. R.M.L.I. Hill, Charles Alfred, Blacksmith.
Hill, George, Sto. P.O. Hine, Fredk. George, Act. Ch. Sto. Hoar, Charles. H., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Hoar, Ernest W., Pte. R.M.L.I. Hodge, William, A.B. Holbrow, Chas., Sto. 1.
Holden, Charles. Robert Chivers, A.B. Holden, Harold William, A.B. Holmes, James, Sto. 1.
Holmes, Wm. Llewellyn. Sh. Std. Holt, Ernest A., Pte. R.M.L.I. Hooper, Charles H., Sergt. R.M.L.I.
Howes, Albert, A.B. Howie, James, Sto. R.N.R. Hughes, Edward, Boy 1.
Hughes, Fredk. Geo., A.B. Hughes, James, Sto. 1. Huish, Edward Charles, Ord. Sea.
Hunsley. Thomas, Sto. 1. Hunt, ‘William, Ld. Sea. Iddon, Fredk. Chas., Sto. 2.
Illingworth, Julius Leslie, P.O. Inglis, Charles, Pte. R.M.L.I. Ingram, Arthur Wm. Charles, A.B.
James, Sidney Ernest, Ld. Sto. Jenkins. Wm. David, Ld. Sea. Jeram, Edward William Sandell, A.B.
John, Herbert Stephen. Shipw. 1. Johnson, James, Sto. 1. Jones, Arthur Harold, E.R.A. 4.
Jones, Charles, Sto. 1. Jones, David George, Sig (R.N.V.R.) Jones, Edw. Clifford, A.B.
Joy, Charles William, Sto. 1. Jupp, Harold Arthur, Ord. Sea. Keeling, Geo. Thomas, Ld. Sea.
Kemp, Norman, Parkhurst, A.B. Kemp, Thomas Harry, Sto. 1. Kempster, Albert Ernest, Ord. Sig.
Kennedy, Robert Coxon, Sto. 1. Kettell, Frederick, P.O. Kidston, Arthur S., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Kilty, Leonard, A.B. Kimber, Herbert John, Ld. Sto. Kimber, Jos. Wm., A.B.
Kirk, Henry, Sto. 1. Knight, Charles Edward, Sto. 1. Knight, Edward Frank Victor, A.B.
Knight. George, Sto. 1. Knight, George Wm., Sto. 1. Knight, Henry, P.O.
Knight, Wm. Henry, Of. Std. 2. Laine, Arthur, Ch. E.R.A. 1. Lamb, John Angus, Ord. Sea.
Lambert, William, A.B. Lamper, Henry James, A.B. Lane, Arthur Mark, A.B.
Lane, Charles Henry, Shipw. 1. Lane, Wallace, Ld. Sea. Lane, Wm. K., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Lang, Alec., Sto. 1. Laroche, George, Sto. R.N.R. Last, Alfred Henry, A.B.
(R.N.V.R.) Leary, Edward, Sto. R.N.R. Leary, Patrick, Ch. Sto.
Lee, Douglas Arthur. A.B. Legg, George James, P.O. Lemon, Herbert Sidney, Elec. Art. 3.
Lewis, James, Sto. 1. Lightowler, Thos. Joseph, Ord. Sea. Linshill, Fredk. C.. Pte. R.M.L.I.
Ld. Sig. Lloyd, Edwin, Sto. R.N.R.
Lloyd, Thomas, A.B. Lockley, Howard F., Cpl. R.M.L.I. Lomas, Fred., Sto. 1.
Long, Gilbert John, A.B. Ludham, James G., Pte. R.M.L.I. Lugg, Reginald F., Pte. R.M.L.I.
McBride, Cyril, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) McConochie, David, Sto. 1. McCormack, Fred. Wm., Sto. R.N.R.
McCormick, Alec., Sto. R.N.R. McDonald, George, Sto. 1. McDonald, John Campbell, Ld. Tel.
McGee. Henry, Sto. R.N.R. McGillivray, Peter, Sto. R.N.R. Mclntyre, Patrick, Sto. 1.
Mclvor, Robert James, Sto. R.N.R. McKevitt, Thomas, Sto. 2. McLaren, John, Boy 1.
McPhail, John, Sto. R.N.R. MacDonald, Thomas, Pte. R.M.L.I. Macfarlane, George, A.B.
MacLeod, Donald, Ld. Sto. Maddocks, Chas. William, Sto. 1. Magann, John Austin, Sto. P.O.
Magarity, Joseph, Ch. E.R.A. 2 Maidmen, Sydney Walter, A.B. Mair, Horace Arthur, Sto. 1.
Major, Thomas, Sto. 1. Mallindine, George William., Boy 1. Mansell, Frederick Chas., A.B.
Maples, George Fredk., P.O. 1. Marchant, George Henry, P.O. 1. Marchant, Sydney Victor, A.B.
Marks, Walter, A.B. Marsh, John Wm., Ord. Sea. Marshall, Charles William, Sto. P.O.
Martell, Edward, A.B. Martin, Edward, Pte. R.M.L.I. Martin, Joe, Boy 1.
Mason, Albert Edward, Boy 1. Mason, John Andrew, Sto. 1. Mason, William Henry, A.B.
Massey, Chales. Clifford, Elec. Art. 4. Mather, Ernest, A.B. Mather, William, A.B.
Matthews, Charles, Sto. 1. Matthews, Frederick George, Of. Std. 1. Matthews, Joseph William., Sto. 1.
Maxted. Chas. Bertram, Boy Tel. May, Frederick. William., Ld. Sto. Maynard, Thos., Sto. 1.
Meade, Leonard James, P.O. Meadows, Charles Stewart, P.O. Mears, Ezra, P.O. 1.
Meears, Alfred George, A.B. Meggs, Claude Douglas, Shipw. 2. Melia, William Edward James, Sto. 1.
Merrion, Sylvester, Boy 1 Micallef, John, Of. Std. 2. Milburn, Thomas James, Sto. 1.
Millar, James, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Milner, John William, Sto. 1. Minter, Alex. Robert, Sh. Std. Asst.
Mitchell, Albert John, Sto. 1. Mitchell, Ernest, Sto. 1. Moody, Edward Ralph, P.O.
Morgan, John, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Morgan, Wm. John, A.B. R.N.V.R.) Morton, John, A.B.
R.M.L.I. Mulvaney, William, Sto. 1.
Munden, Bert, Sto. 1. Nash, Alfred Nicholas, Ld. Sea. Nash, Arthur G., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Neish. Alexander, Sto. 1. Neville, Walter Edward, A.B. Neville, William Bronte, Ld. Sea.
Newbold, Charles, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Newbury, Alfred Ernest, A.B. Nicholl, Robert, Boy 1.
Nicolson, Robert, A.B. Norris, Ernest Leonard, A.B. Offer, John Alfred, A.B.
Oldroyd, Joseph Edward, Sto. 1. Osborne, Frederick John, Ld. Sea. Osguthorpe, John Alfred, Boy 1.
O’Shea, James, A.B. Ostle, Joseph Daniel, Sto. 1. Palmer, Benjamin, Boy 1.
Palmer, Edmund, Ch. Sto. Palmer, Frederick. Wm., Ch. E.R.A. 1. Palmer, Robert Henry. E.R.A. 4.
Tel. Parr, James, Boy 1.
Parry, John Henry, Sto. 1. Parsons, Roland, W., Pte. R.M.L.I. Part, Frank Quarrell, E.R.A. 1.
Paskin, Wm. George, Act. Ld. Sto. Pass, Sidney, Ord. Sea. Paul, Frank Ernest, Ch. Sh.
Cook. Pawley, George William, A.B. Payne, Horace, A.B. Peachey, William, Sto. R.N.R.
Pearce, George, Sto. 1. Pennington, Richard Arthur, Act.
E.R.A. 4. Pennistone, Fredk. Chris., A.B.
Penny, Fredk., P.O Penny, Fredk. C., Pte. R.M.L.I. Pentney, George, Sto. 1.
Perfect, Fredk. Geo., Ord. Sea. Phenna, William, Sto. R.N.R. Phillips, Bertie, A.B.
Phillips, David, Ld. Sea. Phillips, Fredk. W., Pte. R.M.L.I. Phipps, John Wm., Boy 1.
Pick, Walter, Pte. R.M.L.I. Pickett, Sidney James, A.B. Pigford, Ernest Lynn, A.B.
Pilcher, Harry George, A.B. Pinnock, George Edward, Boy 1. Piper, Albert George, C.P.O.
Pitt, George, Sto. R.N.R Plaskett, George Albert, Ch. Arm. Pointer, Fredk. Thomas, Sto. 1.
Polizzj, Achille, Bandsman. Pollard, James Ernest, O.S. Porter, John, Elec. Art. 4.
Portoghese, Guiseppe, Bandsman. Portoghesi, Enrico, Bandsman. Powell, John Harold, O.S.
Power, Michael Joseph, Sto. 1. Pralle, Arthur Charles, Ld. Sto. Pratt, Arthur John, Sig. Boy.
Pratt, Percy Edes, Joiner. Preston, Francis George, O.S. Price, Albert William, O.S.
Price, Ernest Harold, A.B. Price, James Percival, Sto. 1. Price, William H., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Priddle, George Albert, Boy 1. Priestley, Benjamin, O.S. Primmer, John. H., L.-Sergt. R.M.L.I.
Prince, James, Cpl. R.M.L.I. Prior, Charles Martin, Sto. 1. Priori, Archimede, Bandsman.
Proctor, Amos Atherton, Sto. 1. Prophet, Allan, Sto. 1. Piow, Edward Albert, Act. C.P.O.
Quaintance, Albert Victor, A.B. Quarterman. Arch. Geo., E.R.A. 4. Quintrell, Alf. Leslie, Wireman 2.
Raine, Robert, Sto. 2. Rason, John Charles, Cook’s Mate. Ratcliffe, William Austin, Boy Tel.
Read, Albert Victor, A.B. Read, Henry W. C., Pte. R.M.L.I. Read, William. Henry, A.B.
Reay, Richard Edward, Shipw. 2. Renfrew, John Wilson, Sto. 1. Rennie, Robert, Sto. 1.
Richards, Frederick James, Sto. 1. Richardson, Albert Edward, Sto. 1. Richardson, Arthur W., Sergt.
Robbins, John, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Roberts, Leonard Albert, Sto. 1. Robertson, James, Sto. R.N.R.
Robertson, James Duthie, Sto. 1. Robertson, John Thomson, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Robertson, Robt. P., Pte. R.M.L I.
Robinson, William G., Pte. R.M.L.I. Rodgers, James, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Roe, James Parks. A.B.
Rooney, Thomas, Sto. R.N.R. Roots, William John, P.O. Rosmondo, Mattio. Bandsman.
Rowe, Jonathan, Sto. R.N.R. Rowlands, Robert Ernest, Boy 1. Ruff, John, Pte. R.M.L.I.
Rumney, Thomas Lancelot, Ld. Sea. Russell, Fred., Sto. R.N.R. Ryan, William, Sto. 1.
Rye, Francis William, Boy Tel. Saggers, John Martin, Sto. 1. Salmon, Victor, A.B.
Sanger, Frederick, Pte. R.M.L.I. Savage, Arthur Robert, A.B. Savage, John, Sto. 1.
Sawyer, Albert, P.O. Sawyer, Albert Edward, O.S. Scott, Ernest, Pte. R.M.L.I.
Scott, Robert, Ch. Sto. Scowen. Ernest William, A.B. Seal, Douglas, Boy Tel.
Shanks, James, Sto. R.N.R. Sharland, Cecil, O.S. Shaw, James, Sto. 1.
Shaw, Richard E., Pte. R.M.L.I. Shearman, Fred. Julian, Shipwright. Shearman, James, Sto. 2.
Shields, Neil, O.S. Silverson, Alfred John. Sto. 1. Simmonds, Walter Alfred, Ld. Sea.
Simmons, Geo. Fredk., A.B. Simmons, John, Sto. 1. Simpson, William Horace, A.B.
Skelton, William Henry, Sto. 1. Skyrme, Robert James, Sto. P.O. Slade, Thos. Edwin. A.B.
Slaymaker, Edwd. T., Cor. R.M.L.I. Smalley, Roland, Sto. 1. Smiley, George. A.B.
Smith, Bernard Samuel, Cook’s M. Smith, Bertie, Sto. 1. Smith, Charles Philip, A.B.
Act. Ld. Sto. Smith, Hugh, Sto. 1.
Smith, Valentine, Pte. R.M.L.I. Smith, William J., Pte. R.M.L.I.. Smitten, Frank, A.B.
Snook, Bernard Frederick, Tel. Snow, Albert Edward, A.B. Soper, Robert Wilfred, A.B.
Spavound, George William, Ld Sto. Spearing, Samuel, Sto. 1. Spencer, Albert Edwin, Ld. Sea.
Spencer, Frank, Ld. Sig. Spiers, Matthew, Sto. 1. Stainer, Sidney Herbert. A.B.
Stansfield, John Robert, E.R.A. 3. Stanton. Thomas, Sto. 1. Stares, Thomas, Ch. Sto.
Stephen. Thomas, Sto. 1. Stevens, George, Sto 1. Stevens, Reginald Alfred, S.B.A.
Stimpson, Sydney A., Pte. R.M.L.I. Stokes, Herbert Norman, Sto. 1. Stokes, William, Sto. 1.
Stone, Jarvis. Sto. 1. Stone, Reginald Charles., A.B. Stothard, Albert, Sto. 1.
R.M.L.I. Straiten, John, Sto. R.N.R. Strano, Dorrenico, Bandsman.
Strickland, Frederick, E.R.A. 4. Stronach, Charles, Pte. R.M.L.I. Stuart, William. Pte. R.M.L.I.
Sturgess, Cyril, Sto. 2. Sturgess, Ernest, Sto 1 Sullivan, Fredk. Wm., S.B.S. 2.
Sumner, Alfred Horace, Sig. Sutherland, Wm., Sto. 1. Sutton, Frank Edward, A.B.
Swift, Ernest, A.B. Syme, William Forrest, Sto. 2. Tagg, Albert Sidney, Sto. 1.
Talbot, Jack, Sto. 1. Tanner, alias Turner, Edwin, P.O. Tanner Joseph Harry, Mech.
Taplin, Alfred T., Pte. R.M.L.I. Tapp, Herbert Samuel, Boy 1. Tapping, Bertie John, A.B.
Tarling, Sidney Alfred, Ch. Sto. Tawney, Cyril V., Bugler. R.M.L.I. Taylor, David, A.B.
Taylor, Fred., Sto. P.O. Taylor, Frederick, Sto. 1. Taylor, Fredk. George, Sto. 1.
Thomas, Reginald. A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Thompson, Arthur Leonard. Ship’s Cook Thompson, Walter Chas.. Sto. 1.
Thorne, George Win., Ch. P.O. Tigwell, Frank. Boy 1. Tilbury, Lawrence A., Pte R.M.L.I.
Tilly, Evan Thomas, A.B. Tiltman, Albert, P.O. Tonks. Joseph, Sto. l.
Towills, George James, Ld. Sto. Townsend, Ernest John, A.B. Townsend, John Russell, Sig.
Trayhurn, George Henry, Sto. P.O. Trinder, Joseph, P.O. Tel. Tucker, Harry, Pie. R.M.L.I.
Turnbull. James, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Turner, Charles Ernest, Sto. 1. Turner, Henry W. W.. Pte. R.M.L.I.
Ungaro. Luigi. Band Cpl. Urso, Giovanni, Bandsman. Vane, Alfred Ernest, Painter 2.
Vause, Albert. Sto. 1. Vella, John, Of. Cook 1. Venns, Herbert Tames, A.B.
Verge, Thomas John, A.B. Verlander, Walter, A.B Vickery, Alexander Lrigh. A.B.
Viney, Bertie J., Cpl. R.M.L.I. Waddell, George E., A.B.
(R.N.R.) Walker, Edward Sam. Rich., Sto. 1.
Wall, Geo Norman. Ord. Sea. Walsh, Patt, Ld. Sea. Walters, Edwin John, Blacksmith’s M.
Walton, Ernest, Sto. 1. Walton, William, A.B. Ward, Harry Percival, Sig.
Ward, James William, Ld. Sto. Ward, William Fredk., Ord. Sea. Waters, John Hall, Boy 1.
Watkins, Daniel, A.B. (R.N V.R.) Watson, William. Charles, Cook’s Mate. Watts, Francis Edward, Sailmaker.
Wearn, Williams, Painter. Weaver, Leonard, Boy Tel. Webb, Fred. Charles, Boy Servant.
Webster, George, Sto. 1 Wells, Thomas Patrick, Sto. P.O. Welch, John, Ld. Sto.
Wescott, Samuel William George Armstrong, A.B. Westbrook Ernest Edwin, Sto. P.O. Weston, Moses, Boy 1.
Weyman, Frank Oliver, Cook’s M. 2. Whayling, John Richard, Ld. Sto. Wheeler, Henry Joseph, Sto. 2.
White, Ernest Tom, Ld. Sto. White, Jeffery Howard, Ord. Sea. White, John M., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Whiting, Victor John, P.O. 1. Wilcox, Walter Henry. Sto. 1. Wilkes, John, A.B.
Wilkins, Fred. Wm., Ch. Elec. Art. 2. Williams, Albert George, Boy 1. Williams, Edward Charles, Ld. Sea.
Williams, Ernest Victor, Sto. P.O. Williams, Thomas, P.O. Williams, Tom, Act. E.R.A. 4.
Williams. Tom, P.O. Willows, Herbert Stanley, A.B. Wills, Arthur S., Pte. R.M.L.I.
Wills, Thomas Perry, A.B. Willson, Sydney Frank. Yeo. of Sig. Wilson, Francis A.. Pte. R.M.L.I.
Wilson, James Boyle, A.B (R.N.V.R.) Wilson, Percy James, A.B. Wilson, Ralph Henry Chas.. Boy 1.
Wilson, Robert Henry. E.R A 5 Wilson, William. Henry, Sto. 1. Winchester. Marshall James. Boy 1.
Wingham. George Cecil, A.B. Winkworth. Arthur Garfield. A B Wisewell, Walter Harry A.B.
Wishart, Henry Albert. Sto. 1. Withers, Archie, Sto. 1. Wood, Albert Edward. A.B.
Wood. Fredk. Chas., A.B. Wood, John William, Sto. R.N.R. Wood, Joseph, Sto. 1.
Wooller, Thomas Cameron, A.B Wormleighton, Sidney Charles, A.B. (R.N.V.R.) Worsfold. Fredk. John. Wireman 2.
Wright. Clarence Leonard. A.B. Wright, Edward Wm., P.O. Wyatt. Denis, A.B.
Yeates, Eric John, A.B. Young, Charles, Sto. P.O. Young, Charles Wakem, Shipw. 2.
On June 3, 1916, when the news of our sad losses in our first great naval battle off the Jutland Bank had just come to hand, I went fishing with a sailor on the Naval Reserve. The following lines are, almost word for word, a transcript of his talk.
To bleed in sorrow’s school!
“You’re ready, m’m? The morning’s fine!
I thought as how you’d go!
We calls ’em ‘lug-worms’ here.
The news is grave? Aye, so I’ve heard!
Step in! Your skirt is clear.
“My brothers? Any news, you ask?
But we don’t know God’s ways!
“I’ll pull her round the fishing-boats!
For weather foul or fair!
O’ lead along her keel.
Her up against this boom!
Is built with lots o’ room!
You’re safe with Jacob Matthews, m’m!
As lives in little Poole!
They’ve gone off one by one.
Afore the war is done.
“I’ll throw your line out – that’ll do!
Aye, fights on sea are grave!
To lift you off the wave!
No places to lie down!
Just helping you to drown!
Had got the life-boat out.
With many a cheer and shout!
Both ship and crew were gone!
“We cruised around for half an hour!
Ah, m’m, our hearts was sore!
And bring’ em safe to shore!
More finer men than me!
And we can’t fear the sea!
“Why, there’s a catch! Aye, pull it in!
‘Tis on your second hook!
As e’er a line ha’ took!
“I’ll take it off! It won’t hurt me!
You wonder what it’s called?
That ever yet was hauled!
I’d name it if ’twas priced!
The marks o’ Jesus Christ.
“You’ll see His fingers and His thumb!
Just where I’m holding it!
So this ain’t no John Dory, m’m!
I’ll put it safe away!
The bottom o’ Poole Bay!
“‘Twas better than a submarine?
There ain’t such devils here!
They keeps the harbour clear!
And thought as they’d just hauled it up?
Aye, m’m! That’s how ‘twould be.
Since this here war abroke!
You seen it up? Aye, yonder there!
We gets our catches in the night!
You don’t catch much by day!
As richer men nor we.
To take our nets to sea.
We’d like be fired upon!
“You want to see the mack’rel shoals?
Just there, beside the quay!
I’ve got my ‘permit’ signed!
If so be you’ve a mind?
I’ll promise you a haul!
The First World War was a war of machines – of tanks, machine guns and quick-firing artillery – but the most extraordinary technological behemoths emerging from Europe’s workshops fought at sea. Dreadnought battleships were the apogee of early 20th-century industrial capability. They were the most complicated, extravagantly expensive assets nations possessed and the benchmark for their prestige. Each ship was a bewildering agglomeration of mammoth rifled guns, pitching shells the weight of car engines across miles of ocean, and turbine engines driving 30,000-ton ships at speeds approaching 30mph, protected by steel armour belts up to 13in thick.
When Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered a massive expansion of his Imperial German Navy, the British responded by launching the battleship HMS Dreadnought. It was faster, with better armour and more big guns, than anything else afloat. Dreadnought reset the escalating arms race, a decision born out of confidence that Britain could outbuild Germany. The British also developed “battlecruisers”, new ships with heavy guns but light armour and exceptional speed. When Britain declared war on August 4, 1914, the Grand Fleet had nearly twice as many heavy ships as Germany’s High Seas Fleet.
For two years, the Kaiser hamstrung his commanders with orders not to endanger his expensive fleet and the British had no means of forcing the Germans to fight, although their trade blockade would eventually prove a devastating weapon. All the British commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, needed to ensure victory was patience, but it was a frustrating business.
In January 1916, Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer took over the German Fleet. Hoping to goad the British into a mistake, Scheer obtained the Kaiser’s approval for his battlecruisers, commanded by Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper, to bombard Sunderland.
Scheer expected Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty to engage them with his battlecruiser fleet from Rosyth, to be joined later by Jellicoe from Scapa Flow. German submarines would ambush the British fleets, and Hipper would lure Beatty towards the High Seas Fleet. Destroying Beatty first would give the Germans the equality in numbers they needed to win. When the weather worsened, Scheer simplified his plan, ordering Hipper to threaten British convoys to Norway.
British codebreakers had already detected the German sortie and the Grand Fleet had sailed, but the intelligence was misreported. So though Jellicoe and Beatty were at sea, neither expected a battle when the two battlecruiser forces sighted each other at 2.28pm on May 31, 1916, beginning the Battle of Jutland, named after the nearest land mass. Hipper reversed course to lead Beatty towards the High Seas Fleet, and both sides opened fire. The British were silhouetted against the western horizon, smoke obscured the German ships, and British gunnery was dreadful, so the Germans inflicted early blows. A shell penetrated a gun turret aboard HMS Lion, Beatty’s flagship, causing a fire in the magazine below which could have destroyed the ship, had the compartment not been flooded, drowning all inside.
Moments later, a shell sliced into HMS Indefatigable’s forward turret. No one had closed the magazine doors and the ship blew up in a catastrophic explosion, killing all but two of 1,019 men aboard. Shortly afterwards, HMS Queen Mary exploded, taking with her nearly 1,300 men and prompting Beatty to growl “there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today”.
As Beatty pursued Hipper south, the German battlecruisers came under heavy fire from Beatty’s four 15in-gunned “superdreadnoughts”, until at 4.33pm the British spotted Scheer’s High Seas Fleet. Beatty turned away, hoping to lure the Germans back north to Jellicoe, who was steaming towards him, wishing “someone would tell me who is firing and what they are firing at”. The confusion was deepened by Rear-Admiral Horace Hood, who led his three battlecruisers and their escorting ships towards the enemy. As Hood pushed forward, the light cruiser HMS Chester was repeatedly hit, and Jack Cornwell, 16, was horrifically wounded. He died after the battle, and became the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Finally, at 6.14pm, Jellicoe received a signal from Beatty and ordered his ships into a battle line as the mist cleared, exposing Hood’s battlecruisers to overwhelming German fire. A shell hit one of HMS Invincible’s turrets. Again, the flash raced into the magazines and she vanished in a huge explosion.
Despite this, after just a few minutes’ combat, Scheer realised that he could not defeat the entire Grand Fleet, reversed his line and disappeared into the mist. Twenty minutes later, the Germans briefly reappeared. Realising his mistake and desperate to buy time for another turn, Scheer sent Hipper’s badly damaged battlecruisers to attack the British. They were barely afloat, but the plan worked and the German fleet slipped into the gloom. The night saw a series of bloody skirmishes, but Scheer got home and on June 5, the Kaiser proclaimed that “the spell of Trafalgar has been broken”. The Grand Fleet’s return was more subdued and the London newspapers lamented a “great naval disaster”. The British lost more ships and many more men – 6,094 compared with 2,551 Germans. But the Grand Fleet was ready for action again the next day. Many German ships were so badly damaged they were out of action until October and the Germans never mounted another serious challenge. Jutland was not Trafalgar, but as one American journalist remarked, “the German fleet has assaulted its jailor, but is still in jail”.
A strangely impelling film and enjoyable with Kate (Clémence Poésy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) are expecting their first baby. They are thirty-something, successful and affluent. All appears well on the surface but Kate harbours deeply rooted fears about her fitness to be a mother and her ability to love the child within. One day another couple, Jon (David Morrissey) and Teresa (Laura Birn) move in to the apartment below. They become ‘The Ones Below’ and are also expecting a baby. In contrast to Kate, Teresa is full of joy at the prospect of imminent motherhood. Pregnancy brings the women together in shared confidences, as Kate becomes entranced by Teresa’s unquestioning celebration of her family-to-be. Until one night a joint dinner begins to reveal all is not as it seems with ‘The Ones Below’ and a single tragic accident throws the couples into a nightmare of psychological terror.
But then, there’s a feeling that everything about the couple downstairs is slightly off and fantastical. Morrissey is fearsomely aggressive, blunt and narrow in focus, leaning his head in as if inspecting prey, his glaringly bright jumpers like a wasp’s danger-signalling stripes. He and Theresa fascinate for being predatory neurotics, not simple psychos. What sticks in the head is what isn’t explained, in Theresa especially, with her Finnish hippie family background and social ease Kate envies, and her secret drinking at dinner and fearful looks of strain, as if her marriage is secretly monstrous.
Yes Morrissey has a strong control over his wife and she appears terrified of him. There are the touches of everything plastic and bright colours shown with the artificial flowers and lawn and everything in their apartment fixed in what appears to be a sterile environment. Its all very blue and yellow and the leaving of shoes outside the doors shows very tight controlled life.
When Teresa throws the cat into the canal and walks away to end up in Germany with the baby in yet again the same decorated home its very strange. But surely the canal would have been dredged and the cat bundle found not to be the baby? Then the truth would out and they would hunt the couple down and find out the truth.
Real Madrid 1-1 Atletico Madrid (5-3 on penalties) UEFA Champions League final 2016 Cristiano Ronaldo spot-kick ensures his side win.
I had left my phone at CV last night so I had no pictures for today. We had the children from a local school for The Shakespeare exhibition where I had to deliver to 30 children and Emma to 30. I was having a laugh to myself while driving there thinking what on Earth would my teachers have thought of me going to deliver lessons on Shakespeare. Amazing!
I just had to listen to Blue Jays album in the car on the way to work. Why this was I had no idea. Great album. I love all the twiddly bits on the end of tracks especially Remember me at the end where it just gets faster. An I love the way When You Wake up runs back into the first track This Morning.
You don’t need to ask me if I’ll be your friend.
You don’t need to ask me if I’m sure my friend.
You don’t need to find the words to say what’s on your mind.
You will find an answer at your journey’s end.
This song in 1961 was I thought amazing!
I loved the original sound produced by Joe Meek.
The song was written and composed by Geoff Goddard who awoke inspired and sang it straight into the tape recorder which he kept by his bedside.
At the time of the recording, John Leyton played a rock star called “Johnny Saint-Cyr” in the TV series Harpers West One. In an episode of the show Saint-Cyr performs the song, surrounded by adoring female fans. The television exposure caused the song to become instantly well known. After it was released, it rapidly rose to the number one spot.
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