Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookH.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARLING, WILLIAM BINGHAM=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., only _s._ of William Barling, of The Paddocks, Newnham-on-Severn, by his wife, Millicent, dau. of Seymour Bingham; _b._ at Newnham, co. Gloucester, 1892; educ. Beresford House, Gloucester; The Priory, Great Malvern; and Dean's Close, Cheltenham, and on leaving the latter became a student at Wye College; was elected to a Fellowship of the Surveyor's Institute, and became a member of the Inland Revenue Valuation Department at Gloucester, a post he held for three years. On the declaration of war he enlisted as a Private in the 5th Battn. of the Gloucesters about 12 Aug.; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 6th Battn. Worcestershire Regt., 2 Dec. 1914, and was put on the Officers' Reserve. He went to France on 19 Feb., and reached the firing line on 23 Feb., where he was attached to the 3rd Battn. of the regt. A wire from the War Office came on 16 March "reported missing, believed killed," and the last authoritative information concerning his death was contained in a letter from his Colonel. The letter said when last seen Lieut. Barling was very bravely leading his platoon in a determined assault against an enemy's trench, and was believed to be killed. A corpl. concerned in this particular advance reported he stumbled over an officer whom he believed to be Lieut. Barling. The trench, which a very few men succeeded in reaching, had to be evacuated at nightfall, and is still (1916) in the enemy's hands. He was _unm._ [Illustration: =William Bingham Barling.=] =BARLOW, CHARLES ERNEST=, Corpl. No. 964, 2nd Home Counties (T.F.) R.E., only _s._ of the late Joshua Barlow, by his wife, Maria, dau. of William Cann; _b._ Soho, London, 17 Nov. 1890; educ. St. Anne's School there; was a chauffeur; enlisted Oct. 1914; went to the Front, 22 Dec. 1914, and died 30 June, 1915, of wounds received in action in France. He _m._ at Walthamstow, Essex, 18 Jan. 1914, Lilian (6, Church Street, Old Town, Bexhill-on-Sea), dau. of John Todd, and had issue a dau., Marie Lilian, _b._ 31 Jan. 1915. =BARLOW, JAMES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9666), S.S. 107176, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARLOW, THOMAS ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11741, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =PRATT-BARLOW, BERNHARD ALEXANDER=, Commander R.N., elder _s._ of Charles James Pratt-Barlow, of Roxby, The Hoe, Plymouth, by his wife, Rosa Caroline, yr. dau. of the late William Gladstone, D.L., J.P., of 58, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.; _b._ St. George's Road, London, S.W., 10 Sept. 1874; educ. Brighton (Mr. W. R. Lee, of Norfolk Terrace), and Royal Naval College, Gosport; joined H.M.S. Britannia as a Naval Cadet in Jan. 1889, being rated midshipman three years later. He was promoted Sub-Lieut. 31 May, 1896, Lieut. 31 Aug. 1897, and Commander 31 Dec. 1908. As a naval cadet he served in the Trafalgar, flagship of Rear-Admirals Lord Walter Kerr, A. H. Markham, and C. G. Domvile, on the Mediterranean Station, July, 1891; the Warspite, flagship of Rear-Admiral Drummond, commanding "D" Fleet in the Naval Manœuvres of July, 1894; and the Active, flying the broad pennant of Commodore R. H. Harris, in the Training Squadron, Sept. 1894. He was Sub-Lieut. of the last-named ship, flying the broad pennant of Commodore G. L. Atkinson from May, 1896, to June, 1897, when he was appointed to the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, in which he was present at the Diamond Jubilee Review at Spithead the same month. At the end of August following he was promoted to Lieut. and appointed to the Majestic, flagship of Admiral Sir Henry Stephenson in the Channel Squadron--the flag Capt. being Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, G.C.B. He was flag Lieut. to Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont on the Pacific station, March, 1899, and on the Australian station to January, 1903. He commanded the destroyers Sturgeon, Contest and Osprey, all at Devonport, and in June, 1903, was appointed 1st Lieut. of H.M.S. Antrim. He was 1st Lieut. at the R.N. Barracks, Devonport, from July, 1907, to the end of 1908, when he was advanced to Commander. In that rank he commanded the destroyers Kale and Rattlesnake, both in the second Destroyer Flotilla, and was commander of H.M.S. Irresistible and of H.M.S. Centurion. He commanded H.M.S. Hawke in the Training Squadron at Queenstown from Jan. 1914, until she was commissioned for war service. Commander Pratt-Barlow lost his life in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1915, when H.M.S. Hawke was torpedoed by a German submarine. After the sinking of H.M.S. Hawke, Capt. Charles J. Wintour, of H.M.S. Swift, wrote the following letter: "I was instrumental in picking up the survivors of the Hawke from the rafts, and I took them in the Swift to harbour. I at once asked one of the survivors as to the commander, and he told me that he had been on his (the survivor's) raft, and seeing that there were too many men on the raft said: 'There are too many men on the raft, I will swim to another.' He was never seen again, but his self-sacrificing action was undoubtedly the means of saving others. I would like you to know how deeply I grieve at his loss, and also that you should know that his very last act was one of unselfish bravery." He _m._ at Canon Ffrome, co. Hereford, 17 June, 1903, Dorothy Nesta, yr. dau. of the late Walter Baskerville, D.L., J.P., of Clyro Court, co. Radnor, and left a dau., Mary Pamela, _b._ 17 June, 1905. [Illustration: =B. A. Pratt-Barlow, R.N.=] =BARNARD, PHILIP=, Seaman, R.N.R. 35140, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARNARD, REUBEN GEORGE=, Ship's Steward, 341409, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARNARD, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, 287572, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARNARDIER, JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1768), Ch. 14072, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARNDEN, FREDERICK THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7435), S.S. 102658, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =BARNES, ARTHUR=, Shipwright, 2nd Class, M. 6714 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =BARNES, ARTHUR FREDERICK=, Private, No. 6462, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Alfred Barnes of 59, Hervey Park Road, Walthamstow; _b._ co. Essex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; _d._ 1 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action; _unm._ =BARNES, CHARLES=, Plumber, 346127, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARNES, CHARLES EDWARD=, Private, No. 2187, 10th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.); _d._ in India 1 Sept., 1914, while on active service. =BARNES, DOUGLAS MESTON=, Flight-Lieut., Royal Naval Air Service, _s._ of George Frederick Barnes, of Tulse Hill Park, A.S.I., by his wife, Elizabeth |