Name
Duncan McAuskan Munn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/09/1914
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Painter 2nd Class
183670
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Pathfinder”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
6.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Village Memorial, Watton-at-Stone,
St Andrew and St Mary Church Roll of Honour, Watton-at-Stone,
Not on the Stapleford memorials*1,
We are not aware of any memorial in Woodhall Park
Pre War
Born on 12 Jan 1879 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland son of Alexander and Mary (McAuslan) Munn, and baptised on 16 Feb 1879 in Airdrie.
He was living in Woodhall Park, Watton where his father was farm foreman in 1881 and 1891.
In 1911 he was in the Navy and aboard H.M.S. Diamond in Falmouth Harbour.
Wartime Service
H.M.S. Pathfinder was sunk off St. Abbs Head, Berwickshire, Scotland, on 5 Sep 1914 by the German submarine U-21, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Otto Hersing.
She was the first ship ever sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired from a submarine. About 250 men died and 18 survived.
Additional Information
Duncan is also commemorated on the family headstone in Stapleford (St. Mary) Churchyard. His part of the inscription reads:
IN ALSO IN BELOVED MEMORY OF
DUNCAN MUNN. ROYAL NAVY WHO WAS KILLED IN THE NORTH SEA ON THE 5TH SEPTEMBER 1914. WHILE SERVING ON
H. M. S. PATHFINDER DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918. AGED 35 YEARS.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
