Signalman Samuel Stuart Honey of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was born on the 17th of December 1897, in Talland, Cornwall, one of two children born to John and Fanny Honey (née Pearce). Samuel’s father was a widower when he married Fanny Pearce in 1897. He had been married to his first wife, Elizabeth Truscott,…
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Robert Price Lewis
Robert Price Lewis was born in Widnes, Lancashire on the 26th of January 1889, the son of Hugh and Hannah Lewis (née Jones). He was the second youngest of nine children. Robert was a member of the Royal Naval Reserve, a Chief Engineering Room Artificer on the Laurentic. His parents were born in Denbighshire, north-east…
Alexander McQuade
Stoker 1st Class Alexander McQuade was born in Belfast, the son of William and Martha McQuade (née McClure). His parents married on the 11th of July 1861 in Seapatrick, County Down, Ireland. According to his marriage record Alexander was born in 1864 but his service record states his date of birth as the 18th of…
Edward Archibald Rice Larmour
Engineer Lieutenant Edward Archibald Rice Larmour was born on the 1st of February 1880 in Belfast, the only son of Edward and Annabella Larmour (née Park). When his parents married on the 13th of December 1874 at St Thomas Church, Belfast his father was already a widower. His first wife Hannah Williams was only 27…
Ambrose Bolton Laverty
Shipwright Ambrose Bolton Laverty was born on the 7th of August 1887 in Hebburn, a small town situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in North East England, sandwiched between the towns of Jarrow and Gateshead. His father was also called Ambrose Laverty and was a riveter from Sunderland. His mother was Hannah…
John Smith
Boatswain John Smith was born on the 3rd of November 1890 in Vadsgarth, Cunningsburgh, Shetland, the son of Andrew and Annie Smith (née Jarmson). He was the fifth of their ten children. His father was a fisherman and crofter. John was working as a fisherman when he enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve on the…
Charles Bartlett
Charles Bartlett, Petty Officer 1st Class, Royal Navy, was born on the 13th of April 1875 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the eldest of Elizabeth and George Bartlett’s five children. Elizabeth was born in Birmingham in 1845 and George in Bridgwater, Somerset in 1854. In 1881 the Elizabeth and George were living in Wellington St, Clifton Place,…
Robert R. Mitchell
Engineer-Lieutenant Robert Ririe Mitchell, R.N.R., who lost his life on the Laurentic was the son of William and Jane Mitchell (neé Ririe). He was born St. Nicholas, Aberdeen in 1885 and was one of five children. He served his apprenticeship at the Aberdeen shipyard of Messrs Hall Russell and Co., and held the Board of…
Arthur Edward White
Seaman Arthur Edward White of the Newfoundland RNR, was the son of George and Nellie White of Shalop Cove, St George’s, Newfoundland. He was born on the 14th of July 1890. His body was recovered from the disaster and is buried in St Mura’s Churchyard in Fahan, County Donegal. The Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve was…
Jacob Lawson Wren
Able Seaman Jacob (or John) Lawson Wren, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, was the younger of two children born to Abraham Guthrie Wren and Helen Wren (née Millar) of 5 Grafton Square, Glasgow, later of Newton Inn at Mearns Cross, Newton Mearns. He was born on the 27th of February 1894 in Hutchesontown, Glasgow. On his…
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