Trying to track down more details of my Great Uncle Fred Spencer (Senior Rating Attendant) who perished during the sinking of HMS Raglan on January 20th 1918. Any additional information is welcome.
thanks!
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06-11-2014, 3:58 PM #1lancs ww2Guest
HMS Raglan sinking -
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06-11-2014, 4:30 PM #2
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Have you visited the Commonwealth War Graves site?
https://www.cwgc.org/
I can't spot anyone named Spencer who died on 20 Jan 1918
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06-11-2014, 7:46 PM #3
Do you know what year he was born?
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06-11-2014, 8:10 PM #4
https://www.historyofwar.org/articles...MS_Goeben.html
The Memorial is located in the central area of the The Hoe, specifically Hoe Park, bordered on the north by Citadel Road and on the west by Lockyer Street. The Memorial is open to the public at all times, 365 days a year.
The Memorial was developed after World War One (architect Sir Robert Lorimer, sculptor Henry Poole) as a way of recognizing members of the Royal Navy who gave their lives at sea and were either lost or buried at sea. The Memorial is one of three, the other two located at Chatham and Portsmouth. An addition was created after the Second World War (architect Sir Edward Maufe, additional sculpting by Charles Wheeler and William McMillan). The Memorial bears the names of approximately 23,000 naval personnel from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and natives of the Commonwealth countries who volunteered. One of the notable groups of names were those of the South African Labor Corps troops, who came from what is now Soweto, 616 of whom drowned when the SS Mendi collided with another ship. Legend has it many of the troops, knowing their death was imminent performed the "Death Dance" until the ship slid beneath the waves.
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06-11-2014, 11:37 PM #5SueNSWGuest
You can download a record of his service from the National Archives for GBP3.30 here - https://discovery.nationalarchives.go...ils/r/D7050199
There is a full list of casualties from the RAGLAN here - https://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1918-01Jan.htm - just scroll down for the date
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06-11-2014, 11:47 PM #6SueNSWGuest
Hi Peter - here he is - CWGC website has the sinking as 20 January 1917
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3046724/
Will check to see if it's just him or the whole ship losses and let them know
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07-11-2014, 12:16 AM #7SueNSWGuest
Just Fred by the looks of things - have contacted them by email as the grave registration report confirms he died with all the others in the same action in 1918 - the automated reply says:
"The CWGC is currently experiencing a large volume of enquiries which have lengthened our response time. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience and assure enquirers that we will respond to all enquiries as soon as possible"
Hopefully it will be easily corrected though as they have their own evidence for proof and it was presumably just a transcription error to the website
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07-11-2014, 12:57 AM #8
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If Fred was born 1896 Colne there are brief details on FMP at Deaths at sea, 1781-1968
There was a memorial service for him see newspapers
20 February 1918 - Burnley News - Burnley, Lancashire, England
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