Name
Bernard Percy Marshall
19 April 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/06/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Stoker 1st Class
K/12198
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Turbulent."
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
17
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Roman Catholic Church Memorial of St Joseph & the English Martyrs, Bishop’s Stortford
Pre War
Bernard Percy Marshall was born on 19 April 1892 in Ely, Cambridgeshire to Edward and Bridget Marshall. On the 1901 Census the family were living at Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire where his father was a Signal Fitter.
By the 1911 Census the family had moved to 53 Apton Road, Bishop's Stortford and Bernard was working as a Shunter for the Railway Company. He married Florence Lewis in early 1916 in Bishop's Stortford and they lived at Arthur Terrace, 53 Apton Road, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
He signed on for 12 years into the Royal Navy on 25 August 1911 so was a serving sailor (Stoker 1st class) on HMS Pembroke at the outbreak of war.
He also served on the Lancaster and lastly on the HMS Turbulent. She was a Talisman class Destroyer which was launched on 5 January 1916 and commissioned on 12 May 1916, which is when Bernard joined her. She was sunk on 1 June 1916 at the Battle of Jutland by a German battlecruiser with the loss of 90 crew, of which Bernard Marshall was one.
Additional Information
His widow Florence received a pension of 10 shillings a week from 7 December 1916 and gave her address as Summerstown, Tooting, SW.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
