Great Eastern St & Tce
(off Alfred St Central)
THE GREAT WAR
STEVENSON, WALTER JAMES
Rank: Stoker 1st Class Service No: K/10726 Date of Death: 31/05/1916 Age: 25 Regiment/Service: Royal Navy H.M.S. "Warrior." Panel Reference: 16 Memorial: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of Walter James Stevenson, of I, Great Eastern Terrace, Great Eastern St., Nottingham. Military History At Jutland on May 31st 1916, Warrior was heavily damaged by German shells, which caused large fires and heavy flooding, although her engines continued running for long enough to allow her to withdraw to the west. She was taken in tow at 9pm by the seaplane tender HMS Engadine. In heavy seas, the Warrior began taking on huge quantities of water which threatened to inundate her and also drag down the towing vessel. Engadine took off Warrior’s surviving crew of 743 (Stevenson was one of 67 Warrior crewmen to die in the action). She was abandoned at 08:25 a.m. on 1 June, when her upper deck was only four feet above the water. She later sank. Remembered on
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SHELTON, ALBERT
Rank: Private Service No: 26328 Date of Death: 4/06/1916 Age: 32 Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 16th Bn. Panel Reference: Panel 87 to 89. Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL Additional Information: Husband of Selina Shelton, of 5, Great Eastern Terrace, Great Eastern St., Nottingham. Family History He was the husband of Selina Shelton and the father of Albert Edward and Frederick Shelton. In 1911 they lived at 3 St Ann's Cottages Peas Hill Road St Ann's Nottingham. Employment/Hobbies He was a coal carter. Remembered on St Ann's District Virtual Memorial War Memorial as Albert Shelton Sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |