Name
William Bishop
17 April 1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1914
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Leading Stoker
300564
Royal Navy
(RFR/CH/B/10705). H.M.S. "Hogue."
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Navy Star, British War Medal and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 4
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Baldock memorials
Pre War
William Bishop was born on 17 April 1884 at Clothall End, Baldock, Herts, the son of Martha Bishop, and baptised at Baldock on 26 July 1891. His father is not recorded. He was one of four children, with older sisters Clara (born 1867), Annie (born 1873) and Martha (born 1881).
In 1891 he was living with his mother and sister Martha at Clothall End, Baldock. His mother died in 1900 and on the 1901 Census he had moved to Hornsey, Middlesex, when he was a boarder at the home of Harry (a blacksmith) and Clara Wilson and their family at 19 Myddleton Road, and he was working as a blacksmith's mate. By 1911 27 year old William had enlisted into the Royal Navy and was listed as a Stoker at the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Kent. He had enlisted on 28 May 1902 for a period of 12 years and re-enlisted on 30 May 1914.
Wartime Service
William was a serving sailor at the outbreak of the war and was serving with the Royal Navy as a Leading Stoker on board the armoured cruiser H M S Hogue when it was sunk by the German submarine U9 off the Dutch coast on 22 September 1914.
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Chatham Memorial, Kent.
Additional Information
Next of kin was recorded as his sister Mrs Martha Baker, 8 Spencer Road, Tottenham Lane, Hornsey.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
