Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book, Hull, Coalheaver on sea-going ships, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of George Hullah, of Beeford; _b._ Hull, co. York, 23 March, 1886; educ. Blenkin Street School, Holderness Road, there; was employed in the firm of Thomas Wilson, Sons & Co., Ship Owners, Hull, as a fireman on the steamers sailing from Hull to New York and Boston, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 joined a trawler which had been taken over by the Admiralty for mine-sweeping purposes, and was accidentally drowned at Cromarty, 13 Jan. 1915. He was returning from a few hours' leave, and the weather being very bad the small boat he was in was capsized. He _m._ at St. Philip's Church, Sculcoates, 11 April, 1908, Catherine (14, May Terrace, Walker Street, off Hessle Road, Hull), dau. of Tom Clark, and had two sons: Arthur, _b._ 21 Sept. 1912; and Henry, _b._ 18 April, 1914. =SKIN, ALBIN SAMUEL=, A.B., 237656, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SKINNER, ARTHUR=, Private, No. G. 1454, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 9 May, 1915. =SKINNER, JOHN THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5048), S.S. 1834, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SKINNER, PHILIP JOHN LANCELOT=, Sub-Lieut., R.N., yst. _s._ of Major Charles Lancelot Andrewes Skinner, of 57, Eccleston Square, S.W., late 4th Hussars, by his wife, Lady Kathleen, née Ponsonby, yst. dau. of Walter William Brabazon, 7th Earl of Bessborough; _b._ The Chantry, Ipswich, 23 Jan. 1894; educ. St. Andrews, Eastbourne, and Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges, where he was cadet capt., H.R.H. the Prince of Wales being under his charge; served as a cadet on H.M.S. Cumberland; joined H.M.S. Hercules as a Midshipman in 1911, afterwards served on H.M.S. King George V.; was appointed acting Sub-Lieut. H.M.S. Formidable, 29 July, 1914; and was lost when that ship was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel, 1 Jan 1915. The following is an extract from one of the many letters received from some of the bluejackets and other survivors off H.M.S. Formidable: "We found him a most kind and considerate officer, a fearless and true British sailor, and a splendid type of the true English gentleman. He was esteemed and respected by all who knew him, both by officers and men, and we loved him." [Illustration: =Philip John L. Skinner.=] =SKINNER, RONALD SWEYN=, Sergt., No. 737, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the Rev. Frederick William Skinner, Vicar of Tibenham, co. Norfolk, by his wife, Agnes Mary, dau. of Edward Cooke; _b._ Ashwe11thorpe, co. Norfolk, 22 Nov. 1888; educ. Banham Grammar School; joined the Queen Victoria Rifles in Nov. 1910, was promoted Sergt. Jan. 1915, and on the outbreak of war proceeded to the Front with them; he died of wounds received in action at Hill 60, Flanders, 3 Feb. 1915; buried Dranoutre; _unm._ His Capt. wrote: "From the first moment he went into action in the trenches he showed himself a bold and resolute soldier who thought first of his duty and nothing of himself. He had recently been named for a commission. At all times he showed a fine example and exercised a most beneficial influence thereby over the men under his command. I cannot think how we shall get on without him: men such as he proved himself over and over again are hard indeed to replace." He was Capt. of the Olympic Rifle Club five years, and shot for his company at Bisley two years. =SKINNER, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1816), 187806, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SCOT SKIRVING, ARCHIBALD=, Capt., 5th Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, yr. _s._ of Robert Scot Skirving, M.B., of Sydney, N.S.W., by his wife, Lucy, dau. of the late Trefferson Hester, M.D.; _b._ Sydney, New South Wales, 7 Sept. 1884; educ. Sydney Grammar School; Eton House, Tonbridge; and the University of Sydney, at which last he graduated as M.B. and C.M. in 1911 with high honours, being the second man of his year. A resident medical officer in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney till 1913, he proceeded in that year to England to take the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, but on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for active service. He had previously joined the University Scouts in 1907, and the 2nd Australian Infantry Regt. in 1909, transferring from the latter in the following year to the N.S.W. Scottish Rifles, which became the 25th Australian Infantry under the new regulations, and after being temporarily attached to the Black Watch was given a commission as Lieut. in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, 4 Sept. 1914, and promoted Capt. 2 Dec. following. He died 9 Aug. 1915 (on board the hospital ship Valdivia), from wounds received near Suvla Bay, and was buried at sea five miles south of Imbros Island. The letters of his fellow officers show him to have been as able and keen in his military duties as he was capable and distinguished in his profession of medicine. [Illustration: =Archibald Scot Skirving.=] =SLADE, EDWARD FRED=, Rifleman, No. 3604, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Edward Henry Slade, of Bedmond, King's Langley, by his wife, Kate, dau. of George Gamby; _b._ Abbots Langley, co. Herts, 9 Dec. 1892; educ. Watford Grammar School; was employed on the London & North-Western Railway at Euston, but after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Queen Victoria Rifles, 17 Nov. 1914, and was accidentally drowned in France, while bathing in the rear of the British trenches, 12 Aug. 1915; _unm._ Buried in the village yard at Chippilly. Slade was a student at the Guildhall School of Music, and a choirman and deputy organist at Abbot's Langley Parish Church, and was considered by Professor Docker, R.A.M., to be a very promising organist. His company officer wrote that his death was "a great loss to the company, as he was an able and willing soldier under all circumstances." [Illustration: =Edward Fred Slade.=] =SLATER, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110190 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SLATER, DAVID=, Stoker, R.N.R., U. 1354, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =SLATER, GEORGE MICHAEL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9611), 297247, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SLATTER, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109395, H.M.S Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SLATTERY, HENRY JAMES=, Rifleman, No. 2953, 18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late Alfred Richard Slattery, by his wife, Elizabeth (2A, Frederick Mews, Kinnerton Street, Knightsbridge, S.W.), dau. of Elijah Peachey; _b._ Knightsbridge, 23 Nov. 1892; educ. St. Paul's Schools, Knightsbridge; was in the employ of Mr. John Morgan, Army Tailor, of 5, Albemarle Stree |