ATTRILL, Harry George

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Leading Seaman
HMS Queen Mary - Lion Class Battlecruiser
Royal Navy

Harry was born in Newport on the 27th of April 1887 to Maurice Stephen & Ada Mary (nee SHARP) ATTRILL of ‘The Bedford’, Newport. He was a seasoned sailor having been in the Navy for 12 years, serving as a Signalman & had taken part in three previous large sea battles.

HMS Queen Mary was a Lion-Class Battlecruiser, which on the 31st of May 1916 was sunk, in the North Sea, during the Battle of Jutland with the loss of all but 9 of her complement of 1,266 officers & ratings.

Harry’s body was never recovered, the sea being his final resting place, & so he is commemorated, aged 29, by the Commission on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Harry is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.