MIDLANE, Vernon George

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Able Seaman
HMS Queen Mary - Battlecruiser
Royal Navy

Vernon was born on the 8th of June 1879 at 47 Trafalgar Road in Newport to Harry & Amy (nee TRUSSLER) MIDLANE. On the 22nd of February 1909 at St. Paul’s Church, Barton he married Kate Emily HARLEY & lived at 2 Excelsior Terrace, Green Street in Newport.

On the 31st of May 1916, the Queen Mary was sunk during the Battle of Jutland with the loss of all but 9 of her complement of 1266 officers & ratings. Vernon, aged 36, was one of those lost; his body was never recovered & so he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to those Lost at Sea together with over 10,000 of his First World War shipmates.

Vernon is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorial.

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.