Commemorated: | |||
1. Memorial: | East Sheen Cemetery | D 151 | |
2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.116 | |
3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 26C GQS | |
Awards & Titles: |
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
Unit / Ship / Est.: HMS President |
HMS President is the home of the London Division of the Royal Naval Reserve. It has been a shore establishment near Tower Bridge overlooking the entrance to St Katharine Docks since 1988. Ships that have been previously renamed HMS President whilst serving as the home of the London Division of the Royal Naval Reserve include: HMS Buzzard, a Nymphe-class screw sloop launched in 1887 and renamed HMS President in 1911. She was lent away in 1919 and sold in 1921. |
Action : Natural Causes |
Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.
HMS Victorious (1903) Engineer Commander Chatham
London Gazette: Admiralty, 21st September, 1908.Engineer Commander James Barber has been placed on the Retired List at his own request
Dated 19th September, 1908.
Detail :
BARBER, James, Engineer Captain (ret), President, 9 March 1917, illness
Masonic :
Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
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Mother : | Royal Naval College and United Service No. 1593 E.C. | London |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
3rd October 1903 | 10th November 1903 | 8th December 1903 |
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley