Shread,+Herbert

Royal Navy, service number SS/113680
 * Stoker Petty Officer Herbert Shread**



1895: Birth, 5th January. Registered in Keighley. Baptism, 5th May at Holy Trinity Church, Bingley. Parents Edgar Edwin Shread and Alice Shread of 9, Whitley Fold, (Bingley?) Father's occupation: Excavator. 1901: Census. Aged 6 years, living at 'The Paddock' Micklethwaite. Father's occupation : Foreman, Clay miner. 1911: Census. Aged 16 years, living at 48, Stanbury, Haworth. Occupation: Bobbin taker off, Worsted manufacturer. 1913: Joined the Royal Navy, 27th March for 5 years (plus 7 years in the reserves). Trained at Portsmouth. Civilian occupation: Labourer. Height: 5 feet 5 inches. Chest: 35 inches. Hair: Brown, Eyes: Brown, Complexion: Fresh. HMS Victory II. (training vessel) from 27th March to 14th October. Stoker class II. Character: VG. Ability: Satisfactory. Assessed on 31st December 1913. 1914: HMS Latona: 15th October (1913) to 9th March. Stoker class II. Character: VG. Ability: Satisfactory. Assessed on 31st December 1914. HMS Neptune: 10th March. HMS Neptune: Stoker class I from 27th March (1914) to 27th February (1917). Character: VG. Ability: Superior. Assessed on 31st December 1915. Passed Education test for PO (Petty Officer) 15th December 1916. Character: VG. Ability: Satisfactory. Assessed on 31st December 1916. 1917: HMS Victory II. Stoker class I from 28th February to 30th June. Woolwich - HMS Tristram 1st July to 30th June (1918). Character: VG. Ability: Satisfactory. Assessed on 31st December 1917. First stripe (3 years) awarded on 1st October. 1918: HMS Columbine: from 31st July to 2nd November when he died age 23 years of pneumonia resulting from influenza. Second stripe (5 years) awarded on 7th March. War gratuity paid.

Buried in Dunfermline Parish Council Cemetery, Eastern Division, 2585. Fifeshire, Scotland. Additional Information: Son of Edgar Edwin and Alice Shread, of Newton-in-Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, Lancs. Relatives Notified and Address: Mother: Alice Waterworks, Newton-in-Cartmel Grange-over-Sands Lancs

Medals awarded for war service: 1914 Star, Victory Medal, British War Medal. Remembered on the Cross Roads War Memorial in the Bowling pavilion in Cross Roads Park. Remembered on the Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School roll of honour

Stoker Herbert Shread, of Cross Roads, died of pneumonia following influenza on H.M. hospital ship on November 2. He joined the Navy in March 1916, and was previously employed by Messrs. E. Gates (possibly Oates?) & Co., Cross Roads Mills. He was 23 years of age.
 * Keighley News report dated 16th November 1918:**

(Please note that shore bases are also designated as 'HMS' so technically they're 'ships', but not necessarily floating vessels) HMS Victory II - training vessel at Portsmouth. HMS Latona - an Apollo class protected cruiser launched in 1890. She was used as mine-layer in 1907 and was sold in 1920. HMS Neptune - a 20, 000 ton Royal Navy dreadnought battleship. Launched on 30 Sept 1909, Commissioned on 11 Jan 1911. Scrapped Sept 1922. HMS Tristram - one of sixty two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17. HMS Columbine - This shore base was commissioned in 1917 as a depot for Torpedo Boat Destroyers of the Grand Fleet. HMS Columbine and the naval hospital at Butlaw were closed in 1938. (It's possible that Herbert died in the Butlaw hospital.)
 * Notes on the vessels that Stoker Herbert Shread served with:**