Biographical Data
Skeldon, Horace Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo

 

Title	Ordinary Seaman (RNCVR)
Official Number	VR-2586

 

Birth	25/12/1891	Death	18/05/1917
Place	(nk)	Place	(At sea)
Area	Yorkshire	Area
Country	UK	Country	(At sea)

 

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Biography

 

Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman RNCVR. He joined the navy in Toronto ON and underwent training in HMCS Niobe. He served in HMS Arcadia. He was serving in HMT Lucknow (hired trawler minesweeper. He was serving in this vessel when she was mined and sunk in the English Channel).

 

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Anecdotes

HMT LUCKNOW was one of 315 trawlers taken up from Hull by the Royal Navy during WW I, of which 52 were lost during the war. LUCKNOW was 171 g,r.t. and had been built in 1903 for fishing. She was converted in 1914 for minesweeping and fitted with a single 3-pounder gun. LUCKNOW was sunk by a German mine on May 18, 1917 off Portsmouth in the English Channel; during which nine sailors were killed including Ordinary Seaman Horace Skeldon, RNCVR.

 

References
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/4021758/h-skeldon/ (website viewed 28/05/2023);
Last update
2022-03-12 00:00:00

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