William Stern

Stoker 1st Class William Stern was an English sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the First World War.
He was born on 3 July 1892, at Bishopsgate, London, the son of Jacob Cohen, a waterproofer, and Esther Stern (née Moses). Stern joined the Royal Navy in 1909, on a 12-year commitment.
Stern died on 5 September 1914, when the German U-boat U-21 torpedoed and sunk the scout cruiser HMS Pathfinder, off St. Abbs Head, Scotland, with the loss of 259 crew. The cruiser thus became the first vessel to be sunk by a submarine.Green, Geoffrey (2007), England expects ...: British Jews under the white ensign from HMS Victory to the loss of HMS Hood in 1941, p. 68, jhse.org. Retrieved 19 Octobr 2012.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Chatham Naval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Stern, William, cwgc.org. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
Category:1892 births
Category:1914 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Navy
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Chatham Naval Memorial
Category:Stokers