Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookng the next three months Shinnie was twice mentioned
for commendable service, and received his promotion to the rank of
Sub-Lieut. while at sea. He was lost when the Formidable was torpedoed
and sunk in the English Channel on the morning of 1 Jan. 1915. One of
the Petty Officers who was with Shinnie on the quarterdeck, writing
after the disaster, says: "I had no time to exchange words with my
officers, but Sub-Lieut. Shinnie superintended the lowering of the
quarterdeck boats and ordered Petty Officers to take charge of them, as
they were mostly married men. He remained perfectly cool and calm to
the very end, and when the order came from the Capt. to look out for
ourselves the Sub-Lieut. went to see that each of the men near him had
something that would float and that they could hang on to. As far as
I know he went down with the ship." A brother officer, who was badly
injured by the second explosion and had to be helped overboard at the
end says: "I was amongst the last who left the ship, but after I was
in the water I saw Sub-Lieut. Shinnie still at his post. He was then
fastening on one of the life-saving collars." He was _unm._
[Illustration: =Herbert F. C. Shinnie.=]
=SHIP, FRANCIS ALFRED=, L.-Corpl., No. 7648. 1st Battn. East Kent
Regt. (The Buffs), _s._ of Francis Charles Ship, of 203, Maxey
Road, Plumstead; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed
in action, 25 Dec. 1914.
=SHIPLEY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3899), 309117,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=SHIPP, GREGORY=, L.-Corpl., No. 8338, 2nd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Frederick Shipp, of Gaywood Road, King's Lynn;
_b._ co. Norfolk; served with the Expeditionary Force in France
and Flanders; killed in action, 1 Jan. 1915. Buried in Soldiers'
Cemetery, Rue du Bois, Bethune-Richebourg Road; _unm._
=SHONK, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch B. 8533),
396982, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=SHORT, ALBERT FREDERICK=, Rifleman, No. 2563, 1/17th Battn.
(Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._
of the late Alexander William Short, of Stepney, Lighterman, by his
wife, Emma Amelia (33, Salmon's Lane, London, E.), dau. of Alfred
Seymour; _b._ Stepney, E., 3 March, 1894; educ. Cayley Street
Council School, S.; was a Confectioner's Packer; joined the Poplar
and Stepney Rifles about 24 Aug. 1914; went to France, 9 March, 1915,
and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26 Oct. 1915, while
acting as stretcher-bearer. Buried Fort Tosh, a little north of Loos,
on the Loos-Hulloch road; _unm._ A comrade wrote: "He was killed
by a shell while endeavouring to succour some of his unfortunate
comrades, and he died like a hero. I mourn the loss of a true and brave
comrade who never shirked his duty, and he was laid to rest alongside
his fellow stretcher-bearer, who was killed with him. I attended his
funeral the following evening, and a little wooden cross now denotes
where heroes fell."
[Illustration: =Albert Frederick Short.=]
=SHOTTON, ROWLANDSON HARDY=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8558),
203871, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Robert Shotton, of 2, East Street,
Hendon, Sunderland; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea,
15 Oct. 1914.
=SHOVE, VICTOR ALBERT=, A.B., 227275, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=SHRUBB, FRANK JAMES=, Private, No. 14121, 4th Battn. Coldstream
Guards, 2nd _s._ of Henry Shrubb, of Almodington House, Sidlesham,
Chichester, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Thomas Green; _b._
Birdham, co. Sussex, 25 July, 1895; educ. Manhood School there;
enlisted 8 Dec. 1914; went to the Front, 15 Aug. 1915, took part in the
Battle of Loos, 25 Sept., and was killed in action at Levantie, France,
8 Jan. 1916; _unm._ A comrade wrote: "He was filling sandbags to
build up the trenches with. Four of them were together and a shell fell
among them. Frank being killed instantly.... He was buried in a little
cemetery about a mile from the trenches, and a cross marks the spot."
[Illustration: =Frank James Shrubb.=]
=SHUTE, THOMAS JOHN=, Rifleman, No. 2774, 1/17th Battn. (Poplar
and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Thomas
John Shute, of 56, Conder Street, Stepney, E., by his wife. Jenny, dau.
of (--) Harris; _b._ Limehouse, E., 12 Nov. 1889; educ. Dalglish
Street School, Limehouse, E.; was a Shipping Clerk; joined the Poplar
and Stepney Rifles, 4 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 March, 1915, and
died, 27 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action at the Battle of
Loos. Buried New Cemetery, Choques. He _m._ at Stepney, 8 March,
1915, Annie (17, Tredegar Square, Bow, E.), dau. of Michael Hurley;
_s.p._
[Illustration: =Thomas John Shute.=]
=SHYER, HARRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports/16676, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=SIBBALD, JOHN=, Private, No. 10001, D Coy., 2nd Battn. Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders, yst. _s._ of John Hadden Sibbald, of
Harelaw Cottages, Longniddry, for 27 years Forrester to the Earl of
Wemyss, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Abner Baillie; _b._ Aberlady,
co. Haddington, 25 Dec. 1885; educ. Aberlady Public School; enlisted
4 Jan. 1906; was stationed at Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow; Stirling
Castle, and Chatham; went to South Africa with a draft for the 2nd
Battn.; served with the Military Police there; formed one of the
Guard of Honour, during the King's visit to Balmoral in 1911, and
again on the occasion of their Majesties visit to Edinburgh after the
Coronation; and took part in the Military Pageant in London; went to
France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in
action at Ploegsteert, 10 Nov. following; _unm._ Buried there.
He was in the winning team of the inter-company tug-of-war challenge
shield in the 1st Battn. 1905-6-7, and had the cross guns four years in
succession for his musketry.
[Illustration: =John Sibbald.=]
=SICHEL, GEOFFREY MICHAEL JOHN=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Duke of
Cambridge's Own Middlesex Regt. ("The Die Hards"), elder _s._
of Walter Sydney Sichel, of 50, Egerton Gardens, S.W., Author and
Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Constance Elizabeth, eldest dau. of the
late John Holms, M.P.; _b._ Campden Hill, London, W., 15 May,
1890; educ. Bradfield College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
3rd Middlesex, 18 Sept. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 27 Sept. 1912; was in
India with his regt. when war broke out; left for France, 18 Jan. 1915,
and was killed in action 3 miles east of Ypres, 9 Feb. 1915, while
his battn. was engaged in repelling an attack of the Prussian Guard;
_unm._
[Illustration: =Geoffrey M. J. Sichel.=]
=SILCOX, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10074), 213480,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=SILK, GEORGE DOLLAR=, Private, No. 5951, 1st Battn. Queen's Royal
West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and
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