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s a barracks ship at Portsmouth until 1903)
er hitting a mine whilst carrying Field Marshall Lord Kitchener and his staff to Russia on a diplomatic mission).
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p>Command HQ Northern Ireland 26 april 1916 - 14 May 1916
training school at Grantham, Lincs before going to France, that in France he served on the Somme, and that he was gassed and the damage to his lungs contributed to later ill health and his early death - info from my mum, Hazel Waters)</em>.
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s landlord of the Prince of Wales public house, Canal Road, Strood, Kent (where my mother Hazel Waters and her twin Bill were born in 1921), and as a "rummager" for the White Star Line at Southampton Docks. Rummagers searched newly arrived ships for hidden contraband. During these duties he collected cigarette cards for his son, Bill, and also silver paper, which he rolled into huge balls, a habit my mum (Hazel) inherited. It was also during this work that he became ill and died. My mum told me two versions of this - that he came home from work one day having got wet and became ill and died of pneumonia some time later, his lungs having been weakened by poison gas in WW1, and that he came home from work, walked up the stairs, and collapsed half way up with a heart attack, and that my grandmother helped him into bed where he died soon afterwards. My mum was seven or eight at the time, which accounts for the imprecise details. Bill Blakey, 3 Oct 2017.
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William John Waters was my grandfather. He joined the Royal Marines (service number PO/8519) as soon as he could and served on the following HM ships (list provided to me by his son, my uncle, Will
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