Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookMay following; _unm._ =STROUD, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Shipwright, 115268 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =STUART, JOHN=, Private, No. 18161, No. 1 Coy., 3rd Battn. Grenadier Guards, _s._ of John Stuart, of 16, Bridge Street, Wigan, Collier, by his wife, Ellen; _b._ Wigan, co. Lancs., 19 Dec. 1883; educ. St. Joseph's School, Wigan, and afterwards worked as a Miner at the Moss Hall Collieries. After the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Grenadier Guards, 7 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action, being shot through the head by a sniper while filling sand bags, at Neuve Chapelle, 3 April, 1915; _unm._ =STUART, PERCY CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14085, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =STUBBINGTON, WILLIAM CHARLES=, A.B., 231916, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =STUBBS, ALBERT CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 760, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =STUBBS, BERNARD CASTLE=, Private, No. 2655, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late Charles Stubbs, of 20, Grafton Road, Worthing, by his wife, Kate Marian (141, Gladstone Road, Watford, Herts.), dau. of Thomas Henry Castle; _b._ Worthing, 6 March, 1891; educ. Slough School (1899-1907), and on leaving there entered the London offices of the Union Castle Line; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, Sept. 1914; went to France with a draft for the 1st Battn. in Feb., and was sent direct to the firing line; took part in the fight on Hill 60, during the night of 20-21 April, under Lieut. G. H. Woolley, who then gained the first Victoria Cross conferred on a Territorial officer; was wounded in the head by a piece of shell, 22 June, 1915, and died in the Receiving Hospital, Bailleul, without recovering consciousness; _unm._ At Slough he was head boy of the school during his last few terms, the holder of a cup for the school championship at "fives," and the winner of the swimming medal of the school. He later captained the Old Boys' Football Team. [Illustration: =Bernard Castle Stubbs.=] =STUBBS, HERBERT CLAUDE=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 819), late R.M.A. 5329, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =STUBBS, JOHN DUNCAN=, Midshipman, R.N., elder _s._ of Thomas Duncan Henlock Stubbs, of Nunthorpe, Yorkshire, Major, North Riding Heavy Battery, 13th Brigade, R.G.A. (now on active service in France), by his wife, Margaret Isobel, dau. of Arthur Buchannan, of Guisborough, Yorkshire; _b._ Coatham, Redcar, co. York, 24 June, 1899; educ. Coatham Grammar School; Pembroke Lodge, Southbourne, and the Osborne (entered May, 1912), and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges, and had just completed one term at the latter college when war broke out, and the Cadets from the college were sent to various ships on active service. As senior he took a party of nine Cadets of his term to Chatham, where they joined the Aboukir, and in a few days time he went to sea as acting Midshipman. Shortly afterwards the Cadets were all promoted Midshipmen. He was attd. to the Gunnery Lieut., and was in charge of four 12-pr. guns. Life on board was much to his liking, writing home he described it as "the most glorious time of my life." On 22 Sept. the Aboukir was the first ship to be torpedoed; everyone came on deck, as it was obvious that the vessel was sinking. Stubbs noticing that one of the other Midshipmen was not on deck went below to look for him, he found the boy asleep (he had just come off watch), woke him up, and brought him on deck. As one of the officers wrote: "It took some pluck to do this with the ship heeling over and likely to go at any moment." Stubbs swam in the direction of the Hogue, but before he reached her she was torpedoed also and sank very quickly. He then swam towards the Cressy, and while in the water in company with another Midshipman of the Aboukir, they came across a drowning man calling for help. They went to his assistance and succeeded in holding him up for some time, telling him what to do to help himself, but as the man was unable to do as they told him, they were obliged to leave him as they could hold him up no longer. They got to the Cressy where they received dry clothes and hot cocoa, and were in the sick bay when the Cressy was struck the first time. They went on deck, and when the second torpedo struck the ship they took to the water again. Stubbs was seen in the water clinging to some wreckage some time afterwards, but when the rescuing boats came along he had disappeared. According to an Artificer of the Hogue the following incident took place after the Cressy was sunk: A man was calling for help some distance away, the Artificer saw two Midshipmen on a plank not far from the man, later he saw the boys leave the plank they were on and swim towards the man. The latter seized the boys, then there was a short struggle and all three disappeared. The Artificer was then only a few yards away, he saw the boys clearly, and from his description and from the fact that all the other Midshipmen were accounted for, it is thought that almost certainly the boys referred to were Midshipmen Stubbs and Riley. One of the officers of the Aboukir wrote saying of Stubbs: "He was of the greatest assistance to me, in fact I could not have done without him. It was impossible for him to tell a lie. He was always cheerful no matter what time of day or night, nor how rough the sea was." And again he wrote: "There were many fine things done that day, but none finer than his. He was one of the best and truest boys I ever met." He early showed signs of great promise; at Pembroke Lodge he held a high place in the school, and was also good at all games. He played for the school in both the cricket and football teams, and in the school sports won every open event, taking the Sports Challenge Cup with the maximum number of marks. In the words of his headmaster: "He was one of God's perfect little gentlemen." At the R.N.C., Osborne, he was promoted Cadet captain on completion of his third term at the college, he played for the college at cricket, being given his colours in 1913, and won the prize for the best field in the college. He passed out of the college head of his term, being awarded the Admiralty's prize for the Cadet obtaining the highest aggregate number of marks in all subjects, including engineering and seamanship. [Illustration: =John Duncan Stubbs.=] =STUBLEY, FREDERICK=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 38), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =STUCKEY, FREDERICK=, Major, 6th (Hauraki) Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late Samuel Stuckey, of Christchurch, New Zealand (a native of Somersetshire, England); _b._ Christchurch, New Zealand, 8 April, 1877; educ. Nelson College (where he was wi |