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Surname: TWEEDALE
Forename(s): John James
Place of Birth: Whitehaven, Cumberland
Service No: 308093 (RFR/CH/B/7339)
Rank: Stoker 1st Class
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Navy
Battalion / Unit: H.M.S. 'Hogue'
Division: ---
Age: 30
Date of Death: 1914-09-22
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: 5.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
John James Tweedale or Twedale was born 31 December 1882.
John was married to Frances Agnes Barrett in 1909. Frances, born Skipton, 19 March 1886, was the daughter of Margaret Ann Barrett who married William Marshall in 1888.
1911 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 13, Queen Street - John James Tweedale, aged 28 years, born Whitehaven, Cumberland, husband of Frances Agnes Tweedale.
Royal Navy & Royal Marines War Graves Roll, 1914-1919. John James Twedale. Rank: Sto 1st. Relatives Notified and Address: Widow: Frances A., Kershaw Cottages, Headlands, Knottingley.
John died in the same action as Wireless Telegraph Operator George Edward Turner (497WTS) (q.v.) and Wireless Telegraph Operator Sidney William Rudderham (494WTS) (q.v.).
John is commemorated on Knottingley War Memorial.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
TWEEDALE, Stoker John James, of H.M.S. ‘Hogue’ sunk by submarine Sept. 22, 1914.
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Stoker 1st Class John James TWEEDALE
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Navy
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06 November 1914
SKIPTON STOKER DROWNED
Amongst those who went down on the ill-fated ‘Hogue’, which was sunk on September 22nd by a German submarine, is Mr. John James Twedale, a former Skiptonian, who was a reservist and a first-class stoker.
Mr. Twedale married a daughter of Mrs. Marshall of Providence Place, Skipton, who now resides at Headlands, Knottingley, and is left with four children, one of them being only three weeks’ old. He was formerly employed in Skipton by Mr. Wm. ----- at the Unicorn Hotel, and subsequently as a carter by Mr. E. Smith. The deceased was a member of the Earl of Thanet Lodge (M.U.) for about ten years, and was well know in the town and district.
24 September 1915
TWEEDALE – In loving memory of John James Tweedale, lost in action with H.M.S. Hogue, September 22nd, 1914.
We were not by his side,
To bid him a last farewell;
But deep within our hearts,
His memory shall dwell.
From his loving Wife and Children, Skipton.
05 July 1918
TWEEDALE – July 3rd, at 18, Victoria Street, Skipton, Jack Tweedale, aged 4 years.
[Son of Stoker 1st Class John James Tweedale]
20 September 1918
TWEEDALE – In loving memory of John James Tweedale, of H.M.S. Hogue, which was torpedoed on September 22nd, 1914.
“A day of remembrance sad to recall.”
From his loving Wife and Children, 18 Victoria Street, Skipton.
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24 December 1915
CRAVEN’S ROLL OF HONOUR – SKIPTON
Stoker John James Twedale, of H.M.S. ‘Hogue’, sunk by submarine September 22nd 1914. Formerly worked in Skipton, and a member of the Earl of Thanet Lodge (M.U.). Left a widow and four children.
5 July 1918
DEATHS
TWEEDALE - July 3rd, at 18, Victoria Street, Skipton, Jack Tweedale, aged 4½.
[Son of Stoker 1st Class John James Tweedale]
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