Hello all, I hope I'm doing this right because this is my first posting. I'm trying to find out some information on my great uncle who was on board the HMS Hunter when it sank 10th April 1940. My great uncle's name was Horace Yate (able seaman) and from what I've found out so far he was married and aged 33 when he died. My father can remember him and also remembers when he went missing but nobody in the family knew he had got married.
If anybody has any information on either the HMS Hunter or on my great uncle then I would be extremely grateful and so would my family.
Many thanks Donna
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Thread: HMS Hunter
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17-03-2008, 12:12 AM #1Donna YGuest
HMS Hunter
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17-03-2008, 12:15 AM #2Jan1954Guest
Hello Donna and welcome to Brit-Gen
You may find this of interest:
https://www.wartimememoriesproject.co...ips/hunter.php
All the best,
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17-03-2008, 2:38 AM #3MarkJGuest
Would this be the chap in question (details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website) -
Name: YATE, HORACE ALFRED VICTOR
Initials: H A V
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Able Seaman
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Hunter
Age: 33
Date of Death: 10/04/1940
Service No: D/J 107371
Additional information: Son of John Arthur and Elizabeth Yate; husband of Beatrice Ellen Yate, of Swilly, Plymouth.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 38, Column 3.
Memorial: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
The above details list his wife as being Beatrice Ellen and other useful information.
Mark
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17-03-2008, 7:54 AM #4Donna YGuest
Thanks for replies and yes Mark J that is the chap in question, I wonder when they got married and if they had any children before he died would be very interesting to know and if I have any relatives left in the Plymouth area.
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17-03-2008, 7:55 AM #5GeoffersGuest
HMS Hunter - Destroyer. 1,340 tons, 34,000SHp, 4 x 4.7in guns
Officer Commanding Lt. de Villiers
2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean.
Commissioned at Malta 1938.
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17-03-2008, 8:06 AM #6GeoffersGuest
GRO marriage index:
1930 Dec
YATE, Horace A V
surname of spouse, ROBINSON
Plymouth
vol 5b page 528
Do double check for yourself in case I have made an error in transcription.
Children may still be alive, so I won't post full details here, but check the GRO index of births for:
Mar 1933
Dec 1935
(There look t be just the two but again check for yourself in case I have missed any)
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17-03-2008, 11:12 AM #7
Him Donna and welcome to the Forum.
HMS Hunter sank as a result of a collision with HMS Hotspur.
PeterPeter Nicholl
Researching:Nicholl,Boater, Haselgrove & Vaughan
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19-03-2008, 11:18 PM #8Donna YGuest
Many thanks
I would just like to say thank you all so far for the replies and Geoffers you really have thrown up some interesting things which I have passed onto my dad and uncles, would it be possible to give some more information of the children of Horace and Beatrice please if its not too much trouble?
Many thanks again. x
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19-03-2008, 11:30 PM #9GeoffersGuest
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18-06-2008, 5:07 PM #10yatevictorGuest
Horace Alfred Victor Yate. H.M.S.HUNTER
Dear Donna,
I am the son of H.A.V.Yate.
Please let me have your e mail address and I will let you have all the information I have - including a rather poignant visit to the site of the sunken wreck at the head of Narvik fiord.
Please contact me via private message.
Vic Yate.Last edited by Jan1954; 18-06-2008 at 5:19 PM. Reason: Email and telephone number removed
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