I have been researching our family trees. There have been interesting discoveries.
During the First World War, my husband’s grandfather, 26 years old, Able Seaman, Ernest Bristol Binding was serving onboard Beagle class destroyer, HMS Bulldog (1909).
‘On 16 April 1916, while on G Patrol off the mouth of the Dardanelles, the Bulldog struck a contact mine off Gallipoli. She was badly damaged aft and suffered the loss of one officer and six men’ (Wikipedia) including, Able Seaman Binding. The body was not recovered.
He was mourned by mother, Mary, siblings, William, John, Mary, Thomas, Maud, Alfred, Godfrey, Elizabeth, and children, Gwendoline, William, and Elizabeth.
Ernest’s service is commentated in Plymouth and Briton Ferry.
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I’m on the ancestral hunt too – fascinating isn’t it 🙂
It’s heartening, sad, and definitely fascinating. One of my husband’s family moved to SA I the early 1900 s too 💜
Yes! All of those…and also sad what I can’t find out. xx
Research is grand.
I agree.
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How sad.
I come from a family of genealogists so we are born knowing the tales. In my case it’s not that I don’t know it’s how they are probably whitewashed, expunging all the interesting and dark side bits. If I believe my great aunt Spos are a long line of noble virtuous Christian types. Yeah right. Give me a story with guts, not blood.
Researching is my latest obsession with some surprising information. I will post about the Mayflower at some stage.