Name
Herbert Head
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/05/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Petty Officer
234282
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Queen Mary"
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 11
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Wareside Village Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Wareside
Wartime Service
Killed in action against German fleet in the North Sea (Battle of Jutland). HMS Queen Mary was hit by combined fire from German battlecruisers SMS Derfflinger and SMS Seydlitz and sunk with the loss off all but 9 of her 1,275 crew.
Additional Information
Son of George and Emily Head, of Waters Place. Ware. Herts.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
