234025 Fireman. James Joseph Beggins Royal Navy HMS Baralong from:Belfast My Grand-Uncle James Beggins had served in the Royal Navy from 1900 to 1912 and was honourably discharged at completion of his agreed Service Term. He of course was then tied into being in the Royal Naval Reserves. HE held a civilian job in the Northern Counties Railway, which then operated a cross-channel service from Belfast to England (could have been Heysham.)
He was called upon to serve in the Naval Reserves at the outbreak of WW1, and was injured whilst serving on HMS Baralong in 1915. We his family have no knowledge of how or where he received those injuries. He was returned to his relatives in Belfast in late 1915, and never made a recovery, dying in 1919 from whatever happened whilst serving with the Baralong.
Understandably we were restricted by the 100 year thing regards disclosure of events aboard the Baralong. I am fully in the picture, so to speak, about the subsequent events, well up to a point, and seek to discover as to where he received his Wartime injuries on the Baralong.
James Beggins was the brother of my Grandmother.
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