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.

*source, http://www.the-weatherings.co.uk/pccship0471.htm