Name
Thomas Hunt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/05/1918
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Petty Officer Stoker
303355
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Victory II"
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY
E. 32. 6.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
St John’s Church, High Cross
Thunderidge War Memorial
Pre War
Our Thomas Hunt was born in 1884 in Lambeth. By 1891 they were living in Rotherhithe with his father recorded as a builder's foreman, by 1901 they had moved to High Cross, with Thomas a builder's labourer, and his father the same. By 1911 Thomas had joined the Navy and was serving in Aden as an acting leading stoker. He married Elsie Margaret Warden in March quarter 1918 in Portsmouth district.
Wartime Service
He was in the Navy before war broke out, and ended it probably as an instructor in the shore establishment as his last service was the Royal Navy HMS Victory 11 (shore establishment). He appears to have died of natural causes. He was buried in June Quarter 1918 in Haslar Naval Cemetery.
Additional Information
The entry on the Thundridge War Memorial appears to be incorrect. There are only two PO T Hunts detailed in Naval records, and neither appears to have served on HMS Paxton (see Seaman G H Wallace, with whom this entry has probably been confused). His wife
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Pat Bird, Forces at War
