Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2.  p 424

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Title Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 424
Date 1917
Page number 424
Publisher Unknown
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ROYAL NAVY.

[photo, portrait] The late Seaman GEORGE FREDK. HUDSON, H.M.S. Eden, Thames St., Abingdon, Killed in collision at sea.

[photo, portrait] FRANK B. MASSER, Royal Navy Motor Boat Reserve, 3, Melrose Avenue, Reading. Educated at the Kendrick School and apprenticed to a Wokingham firm of motor engineers, he is now in a little known but essential branch of the senior service.

[photo, portrait] ERNEST CORDERY, Leading seaman, Chaveydown, Bracknell. - Eye injured on duty. He has served in the Navy 22 years and would have qualified for a pension next year.

[photo, group, interior] In the centre, standing, is A. T. Key, S.S.A, of Rose St., Wokingham - the only survivor of the steward's staff of H.M.S. Natal, and who afterwards was drowned in Mudros Harbour.

[photo, detail, interior] GIFT TO KNOWL HILL CHURCH. - A Union Jack, made by the 1st Naval Brigade while interned in Groningen after the fall of Antwerp in 1914, has been presented by Miss C. C. R. Bulkeley to St. Peter's Church, Knowl Hill, and a brass tablet commemorates the gift. [Photo by P. O. Collier.]

[photo, portrait] The late STANLEY FLOWER, 1st class stoker, 14, Cholmeley Terrace, Reading. - Lost an arm at sea. Aged 22.

[photo, portrait] HARVEY L. WILLIAMS, Royal Marines, Seaford Road, Wokingham, who was in the fight between the German commerce-raider Greif and H.M.S. Alcantara, was at a gun until the order was given to leave the ship, and was in the water 80 minutes before being picked up.

[photo, portrait] Pte. F. STOCKWELL, R.M.L.I., Grazeley. - Wounded.