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PO.(Shipwright) Henry Pattinson
Royal Navy HMS Raglan
from:Hebburn
(d.20th Jan 1918)
Henry Pattinson was a Petty Officer (Shipwright) serving on board HMS Raglan and was killed in action when the Abercrombie class Monitor was sunk by the combined force of the German Battle Cruiser Goeben and its Escort Cruiser Breslau in the Dardanelles on the 20th January 1918. He is remembered at the Jarrow Library and the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Henry was the son of Henry and Isabella Pattinson of Jarrow. He was marrried to Elizabeth McK. Pattinson nee Loan who lived at 49 Victoria Road West, Hebburn New Town. On the 1911 census Henry was living at 25 James Street, Jarrow with his father Henry (60), mother Isabella (54) who had been married 20 years and his two brothers Thomas (28), single and George (18), single. His father is a general labourer in the shipyard as is Thomas. George is an apprentice iron moulder in the shipyard. Henry is 20, single and an apprentice shipwright in the shipyard.
