Bill Stone, First World War veteran, dies aged 108
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:45 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... d-108.html
Mr Stone was born as one of 14 children in Devon in 1900 and at 16, joined the battle cruiser HMS Tiger which took him to the home of the navy's Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow before progressing to the battleship HMS Hood.
During the Second World War as Chief Stoker of HMS Salamander, he took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, making five trips to pick up troops from the beaches.
He also served in the Sicily landings of 1943 with HMS Newfoundland, and was mentioned in despatches after a torpedo attack en route back to their base in Malta.
His death brings the total of surviving Great War veterans in Britain to two: Henry Allingham, 112, and Harry Patch, 110.
"The rose of No man's land" 1918
http://www.box.net/shared/4vhk0vji0f
My dream of the Big Parade
http://ia300106.us.archive.org/0/items/ ... rISong.mp3
Mr Stone was born as one of 14 children in Devon in 1900 and at 16, joined the battle cruiser HMS Tiger which took him to the home of the navy's Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow before progressing to the battleship HMS Hood.
During the Second World War as Chief Stoker of HMS Salamander, he took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, making five trips to pick up troops from the beaches.
He also served in the Sicily landings of 1943 with HMS Newfoundland, and was mentioned in despatches after a torpedo attack en route back to their base in Malta.
His death brings the total of surviving Great War veterans in Britain to two: Henry Allingham, 112, and Harry Patch, 110.
"The rose of No man's land" 1918
http://www.box.net/shared/4vhk0vji0f
My dream of the Big Parade
http://ia300106.us.archive.org/0/items/ ... rISong.mp3