243034 Stok. John Robert Ireland Royal Navy HMS Tedworth John Ireland thought he was born in Scarborough but he was actually born in Hull, I have his birth certificate. His family moved to Scarborough when he was 1 year old. His father Robert was a Shoemaker and died in 1899 aged 46 when John Robert was only 9. His death caused hardship, John Robert was separated from his mother and siblings and placed into a Boys Home in Staffordshire (his younger brother Frank into a home in Chester). John remained in Standon Boys Home until he was 16 years old, he was then placed with a Farmer in Derbyshire. In 1911 he was living and working as a railway fitters labourer in Coalville, Leicestershire. The next we know he had signed up with the Royal Navy on the 18th August 1915. Victory 2 (presume this was training) until January 1916, then Ark..... (cannot make out the rest of the name) 1916 to 1917, then back to the Victory 2. Finally he served on the Hunt Class Minesweeper HMS Tedworth from 18th October 1917 to 7th February 1919 after which he was granted 28 days leave and then demobbed. He married whilst he was in the Royal Navy on the 4th of January 1919 at St Andrews Church, Deptford, Sunderland. He remained in Sunderland and had 5 sons. After his wife died he spent some time in Carnforth before ending his days and passing away in 1977 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
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