Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 3. p. 539
Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 3. p. 539

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Title Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 3. p. 539
Date 1919
Page number 539
Publisher Reading Standard
Description 239 pages bound volume
Horizon Number: 1246256

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ROYAL NAVY

Stoker EDWARD V. SPENCER, 23 Hatherley Road, Reading. -- Prisoner of war in Brandenburg.

The late First Class Boy ALFRED EDWARD NUNN, 25 Percy Place, Broad Street, Reading. -- Accidentally killed on H.M.S. Victorian. Aged 17.

The late JOSEPH WM. BROWN, Torpedo Boat 109, 1 Argyle Street, Reading. -- Died.

A GIANT JACK TAR - Some of the stuff of which our Navy is made is typified in D. R. BALDWIN, 52 Shaftesbury Avenue, Reading. Aged only 17 1/2, he has been in H.M. Service over a year and is seen with a stoker.

SANK GERMAN BOAT - Serving on H.M.S. Mersey are three Berkshiremen - A. W. Swale R.M.L.I. (Wokingham), Gus Harker A. B. (Abingdon), and Jack Iles A. B. (Tilehurst). They went through the bombardment of the Belgian coast and the sinking of the Konigsberg in East Africa.

The late ALFRED SAYER, 40 Great Knollys Street, Reading, formerly of H.M.S. Lapwing, and since of H.M.S. torpedo boat Negro, sunk in collision on December 21st 1916.

Mr H. PAINE, R.M.B., H.M.S. Warspite, 32a Rose Street, Wokingham. Eleven years in the Navy. Was in great battle off Jutland and had narrow escapes.

The late EDWARD ATTEWELL, Letcombe Bassett, of the Merchant Service. Lost in the North Sea on the S.S. Euterpe.

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