Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | St. Gluvias Church Cemetery | 2. 14. 8. | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.117 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 54B GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: HMS Pegasus (1917) |
Displacement: 2540 tons gross Length: 332 ft (101 m) overall Beam: 43 ft (13 m) Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m) Propulsion: 2-shaft Brown-Curtis geared turbines; 9,500shp Speed: 21 knots Complement: 280 Armament: 2 x 3in (76mm) AA, 2 x 12pdr (76mm) AA Aircraft carried: 9 |
| 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.
Detail :
Thomas J BRAY, Master at Arms, HMS Pegasus We have two possibilities for Thomas BRAY. Either he was serving on the HMS Pegasus that was sunk in Zanzibar in September 1914 and he died in 1918 from related wounds or illness. Or he was a crew member of the HMS Pegasus that was launched in 1917. That vessel was a 3,300 ton displacement seaplane tender that was launched on June 9, 1917. It joined the Grand Fleet on completion. In 1919, she operated in support of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War , based at Archangel, before transferring to the Mediterranean in March 1920, where she remained until 1923. On balance we feel that Thomas BRAY seved on the second HMS Pegasus. At present we have no information on how he died and we suspect natural causes (given that Spanish Influenza was at its height) rather than enemy action.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Royal Naval No. 3337 E.C. | Devonshire |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
3rd May 1911 | 7th June 1911 | 6th September 1911 |
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