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Stkr. Robert Graves
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Queen Mary
from:Jarrow
(d.3rd May 1916)
Robert Graves served as a Stoker on board HMS Queen Mary with the Royal Naval Reserve. He was born and lived Jarrow, died on 3rd May 1916 aged 34, he was the son of Hannah Graves (nee Day) of 57 High Street Jarrow and Robert Graves, Husband of Margaret Graves (nee Kirven) of 57 High Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census Robert Graves age 30 Ships Plate Rivetter in the Palmer Shipyard is with his wife Margaret Graves and children and his widowed mother Hannah Graves at 57 High Street, Jarrow .
Robert is remembered on the Chatham Naval Memorial, he is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (brass plaque on west face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.