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Ord.Sea. John Robert Meller
Royal Navy HMS Venerable
(d.12th Janu 1918)
John Robert Meller served on HMS Venerable and died age 28 on the 12th January 1918. He is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church and is buried in Lyness Naval Cemetery on the Orkney islands near the large Naval Base at Scapa Flow.
- Entry from log of marine losses:
- Venerable, Harbour Service, Portland ex-pre-Dreadnought battleship.
- Meller, John R, Ordinary Seaman, J 70186 (PO), drowned.
John was born in Jarrow 1890, son of John Freer and Alice Whitwood Meller nee Bird of 17 Whiteburn Street, Hebburn Quay. In the 1911 census the family lived at 1 St John's Terrace with John(49) a butcher and his wife of 24 years Alice(50) who has had 3 children, two of whom survived. John(21)single, is a ships steward for Tyne Shipping Co., Dorothy(14) is at school. A neice, Gertrude Bird(28) single, is a household assistant.
