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Chief Electrical Artificer Charles Thomas Stringer remembered 100 years on from sinking of HMS Hampshire

Jun 5, 2016

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FoBLC

in Notable Burials

in _Broken Link, _Missing Images, Centenary, Great War, missing images, Navy, Ww1

Stringer family grave in Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries. Photo courtesy of Billion Graves Amidst the untidy contours of meadow grass close to the Brockley Road boundary lies the modest headstone of the Stringer family. It was a serendipitous discovery that led to the realisation that Charles Thomas Stringer with the rank of Chief Electrical…
‘WILFUL MURDER’ : THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA – MAY 7th 1915

May 3, 2015

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in _Broken Link, _Missing Images, Great War, missing images, Navy, Ww1

‘ The departure of the Lusitania on her last fateful voyage, New York, New York, May 1915. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images) Photo: Library of Congress It was with a considerable frisson of excitement that I chanced, when looking at unrelated family headstones, upon the overgrown lettering at the foot of a family grave in Brockley cemetery (close to the…