'THE GREAT WAR', 'THE WAR TO END WAR', 'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
by Wilfred Owen
31st MAY - 1st JUNE 1916
THE NAVAL SEA BATTLE
OF JUTLAND
LOCAL CASUALTIES at the BATTLE OF JUTLAND Links are to photos and more details |
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HMS Black Prince |
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HMS Lion |
* Leading Stoker, William Cunnane[s], of 108 Bamford Street, Chadderton CWGC |
HMS Tiger |
* First-Class Stoker, Arthur Birchall, of 1 Princess Street, Oldham CWGC |
HMS Queen Mary |
* Stoker, William John White, of Wallhill, Dobcross CWGC |
HMS Indefatigable |
* Seaman, Jack Crawford, of 1 Spring Hill, Waterhead CWGC He was 18 years of age and enlisted in 1915. Before joining he was a piecer at the Cairo Mill. * Ordinary Seaman, Fred Read, 199 London Road CWGC * Leading Stoker, Joseph Graves, of 10 Wye Street, Oldham CWGC * Gunner, James Holt, 15 Fir Street, Failsworth CWGC * First Class Boy, Robert Bathorn Parry, 48 Brunswick Street, Oldham CWGC He was about 17 years of age, and had joined the navy around the outbreak of war in 1914. * Ordinary Seaman, Harry Simms Hodgkinson, of Flag Cottage, Hey CWGC |
HMS Defence |
* First Class Stoker, George Giblin, of 11 Myrtle Street, Oldham CWGC * Ordinary Seaman, Henry Kershaw, of 19 Freeman Street CWGC * Stoker, Stephen Edward Ackroyd, of 181 Glodwick Road, Oldham CWGC * Seaman, James Ewart Metcalfe, of 125 Ashton Road East, Failsworth CWGC * Stoker, James Thomas Fitton, of Cowlishaw Lane, Shaw CWGC * Boy 1st Class, Joseph Rothwell, of 21 Garforth Street, Chadderton CWGC |
HMS Invincible |
* First-Class Stoker, Nelson Whiteley, of 115 Edward Street, Werneth CWGC * First Class Petty Officer, John Joseph Pilley CWGC Parents lived at Hillside Avenue, Clarksfield. He was 25 years of age, the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Pilley of Hillside Avenue, Clarksfield a native of Salford and married Miss Tallboys a well-known lady of Hey who is presently at Portsmouth. He had been in the navy for eight years and during the present war had been in the Falkland Islands battle under Admiral Sturdoe and also in the Heligoland Bight encounter. * Private, William Edwin Younger, Royal Marines CWGC |
HMS Malaya |
* Private, Charles Lee, Royal Marines, of 5 Stanley Road, Hollinwood CWGC He enlisted in the Royal Marines in 1915. He was 19 years of age an before enlisting was a piecer at Magnet Mill. He was killed by an explosion on 31st May at 5pm, whilst he was supplying the ammunition to his gun. He was buried in Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney, in Scotland on 6 June 1916. |
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