'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
on HMS Black Prince
Stoker, Edwin Lloyd,
of 28 Ashton Road West, Failsworth
He was 32 years of age, married with three children.
Before joining the navy he was on the 'Manchester Commerce' as a stoker.
[The 'Manchester Commerce' was a cargo ship
which hit a mine and sunk on 27 October 1914
off Tory Island, Co. Donegal, Ireland]
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on HMS Lion
Leading Stoker, William Cunnane[s],
of 108 Bamford Street, Chadderton
He was 25 years of age, married
and had been in the navy seven years,
prior to which he was a window cleaner.
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on HMS Invincible
First-Class Stoker, Nelson Whiteley,
of 115 Edward Street, Werneth
He was 28 years of age
and was married eight months before his death.
He had been in navy nine years, and was a
reservist when the war broke out, working
as a fireman at the Platt's New Works.
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on HMS Invincible
Private, William Edwin Younger
Royal Marines
He was 32 years of age and had been in the
Marines 15 years.
His wife was living in Devonport.
He had been in the Falkland Islands battle.
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on HMS Tiger
First-Class Stoker, Arthur Birchall
of 1 Princess Street, Oldham
He was 23 years of age and before joining the navy
was employed at the Stockfield Pit.
His first ship was HMS London, and before the
outbreak of war he was transferred to the Tiger and
was on that boat in the Dogger Bank engagement
when the Blucher was sunk.
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on HMS Queen Mary
Stoker William John White,
of Wallhill, Dobcross, Dobcross
He was 20 years of age and had joined the navy as
a youth. The last time his parents saw him was at
Liverpool in 1914. He had come through two naval engagements without injury, and had served on the
Iron Duke.
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