Late Artificer Engineer, Royal Navy. Died in Yarmouth 13 December 1918. Aged 41. His birth was registered September Quarter 1878 at Leeds. In 1899 he married Beatrice Eleanor STANLEY at Saltash – marriage registered June Quarter at St. Germans. Beatrice Eleanor Stanley was the daughter of Charles & Anne Stanley of Tamar Street, Saltash. In the 1901 census he was aged 24, living at 2, Home Park Villas, Saltash with wife & one yare old son Arthur Harold. His occupation was Engine Room Artificer, Royal Navy. Entitled to the 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals. Medals sent to his widow Mrs, B. E. Bancroft. In the 1911 Census he was aged 33 on board HMS MEDEA as an Artificer Engineer- HMS Medea was a Marathon class second class cruiser launched in 1888 and sold in 1914. His wife Beatrice E Bancroft, was aged 33, living at 4 Sea View Terrace, Saltash, Cornwall, with two children Arthur Harold age 11 and Beatrice May age 5. He is on the Register of Seaman Services, Official Number 269249, born Leeds, Yorkshire, 30 January 1877. His death was recorded in the October-December Quarter 1918 in Yarmouth Registration District, Norfolk. Buried (19 December 1918) in ST. STEPHEN'S-BY-SALTASH (ST. STEPHEN) CHURCHYARD, Cornwall. See also Saltash SS Nicholas and Faith

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Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps and 5th Battalion (Territorial), Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Killed in action 9 September 1917. Born 27 May 1894, baptised 17 June 1894 at Devonport, St Michael, son of Thomas Henry Bertran and Louisa Caroline. Bishop. In the 1901 census he was aged 6, born Devonport, resident with his parents at 203, Balmoral Road, Gillingham, Medway, Kent. In the 1911 census he was aged 16, a scholar, at boarding school, born Devonport, resident Christ Hospital School, West Horsham, Sussex. Buried in ZUYDCOOTE MILITARY CEMETERY, Nord, France. Plot I. Row B. Grave 5. See also Saltash SS Nicholas and Faith

Extract from England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1918:

BISHOP Bernard Bennett of Vescovo Saltash Cornwall second-lieutenant Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry died 9 September 1917 in France on active service Administration London 13 March to Thomas Henry Bertram Bishop engineer captain R.N. Effects £531 7s. 5d.

Petty Officer 189105, H.M.S. "Monmouth.", Royal Navy. Killed or died as a direct result of enemy action on 1 November 1914. Aged 36. Born 8 October 1878 at Saltash. Husband of Jessie James, of 25 James Street, Devonport. In the 1881 census he was aged 1, born Salrash, Cornwall, resident with his six siblings and widowed mother, Anna James, at 12, Tamar Street, Saltash, St Germans, Cornwall. In the 1891 census he was aged 11, a scholar, born Cornall, resident with four siblings and widowed mother, Anna James, at Silver Street, Saltash, St Germans, Cornwall. Body not recovered for burial. No known grave. Commemorated on PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Devon. Panel 1. See also Saltash SS Nicholas and Faith

Note: H.M.S "Monmouth" - Built London and Glasgow, Glasgow, laid down August 1899, completed December 1903. Assigned as part of 5th Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic. Involved in the hunt for the Admiral Graf Spee in the South Atlantic. Sunk during the naval battle off the coast of central Chile, at Coronel 1st November 1914 (Battle of Coronel). With the seas difficult (to the disadvantage of the British) Spee reacted by moving his faster vessels out of Cradock's firing range; at sunset - 7pm - with the moon clearly silhouetting Cradock's fleet, he began to shell the latter's force, with Scharnhorst's third salvo crippling the flagship Good Hope; both Good Hope and Monmouth were destroyed shortly afterwards, Monmouth under repeated battering.

Commander, Royal Navy. Died 5 March 1919. In the 1911 census he was aged 43. Lieutenant in Royal Navy, born Kinson, Dorset, married to Grace Ethel Marguerite Preston, resident Sturston Essa Road, Saltash, Cornwall. Buried in St. Stephens-by-Saltash Churchyard. See also Saltash SS Nicholas and Faith

To the Glory of God. In Loving Memory. ROBERT ARTHUR PRESTON. Commander Royal Navy. Who entered into rest March 5th 1919. “In sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection”

Lieutenant, 9th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died due to accidental burning 27 June 1915. Aged 22. Son of William Wenmoth Pryn and lsabella Kate Pryn, of Yeoland, Yelverton, Devon. In the 1911 census he was aged 18, born Ascension Island, a Medical Student, resident 143 Grange Road, Bermondsey, London, living with his Aunt Amy Maria Marshall who was born in St Stapbeasby Saltash, Cornwall. Buried in LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot I. Row A. Grave 12. See also Saltash SS Nicholas and Faith

Extract from British Army, Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916, Volume 2, page 381:

LIEUTENANT (temp.) WILLIAM REGINALD PRYN, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS, was the eldest son of Deputy-Surgeon-General W. W. Pryn, R.N., and Mrs. Pryn, Royal Naval Hospital, Gibraltar, and a grandson of the late Major John Cotter, The Buffs.

Lieutenant Pryn was born in Ascension Island on the 28th September, 1892, and was educated at Kelly College, Tavistock, and Guy's Hospital, London. When the war broke out he was House Surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, but he immediately offered his services to the War Office, and in August, 1914, he was gazetted Temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps. At first he served in No. 11 General Hospital, Rouen, and St. Nazaire, and in September, 1914, he was attached as Medical Officer to the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. That appointment terminated in May, 1915, when Lieutenant Pryn was attached to No. 9 Field Ambulance. lie died on the 27th June, 1915, at No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station. His death was due to accidental burning while he was on temporary duty with the Wiltshire Regiment, which was at that time in the firing line. He was buried in the Military Cemetery near Poperinghe, Belgium.

Second Lieutenant, 228th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action near Bapaume 25 March 1918. Aged 38. Son of Joseph Pryor, of Westbourne, Saltash, Cornwall. Brother of Edgar (above). Formerly with the University of London (O.T.C.). In France June to Novemebr 1917; in Italy November 18917 toMarch 1918; France March 1918. No known grave. Commemorated on POZEIRES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel 10 to 13. See also Saltash SS Nicholas and Faith and also Camborne School of Mines

Extract from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1918:

PRYOR Joseph Stoneman of Westbourne House Saltash Cornwall died 25 March 1918 in France Probate London 19 July to Joseph Pryor retired mining engineer and Harry Rich merchant. Effects £1048 2s. 8d.

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