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anne park Our first ever 2000 poster
Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 21200 Location: Aberdeen
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:31 am Post subject: Skipper James Wilson **not eligible for CWGC** |
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Skipper James Wilson Royal Naval Reserve (T) Lunan Bay born Banff 29/12/1850 Age 63 Died At Sea 26-Dec-14 Son of James Wilson & Margaret Michie. Husband of Mrs Anderson. 1901 Census: 58, Wellington St; Wife: Frances. City Roll of Honour: 3 Devanha Terr; Glasgow Herald 31-12-14 Intimation has been received in Aberdeen that James Wilson, 3 Devanha Terrace, has died on a hospital ship in the North Sea. Mr Wilson was employed in Government service on board the local trawler Lunan Bay, of which he was master. Mr Wilson is survived by his wife and a family of nine, a particularly sad family circumstance being that a son of only 19 years of age met his life on the previous Saturday while serving on board a mine sweeper which was blown up off Scarborough. |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7755 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:36 am Post subject: |
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From http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1914-12Dec.htm
Lunan Bay, hired trawler, boom defence vessel
WILSON, James, Skipper, illness
and his son
Saturday, 19 December 1914
Orianda, hired trawler, minesweeper, mined and sunk in North Sea
WILSON, James, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 546
Name: WILSON, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Deck Hand
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Unit Text: H.M. Trawler "Orianda."
Date of Death: 19/12/1914
Service No: 546DA
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 6.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL _________________ Ken |
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anne park Our first ever 2000 poster
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:44 am Post subject: James Wilson Jnr info on my database |
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James Wilson Jnr Deck Hand 546DA Royal Naval Reserve (T) Orianda born Banff 20/02/1895 Age 19 Died At Sea 19-Dec-14 NoK: Father: James, 3 Devanha Tce, Aberdeen. 1901 Census: 58, Wellington St; Mother: Frances. City Roll of Honour : 3 Devanha Terr; Portsmouth Naval Memorial M. R. 03 Panel 6 Glasgow Herald 31-12-14 City Memorial |
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kinnethmont
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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This man is not a non comm. It appears he died due to illness and therefor cannot qualify as a war death. _________________ Jim
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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