William Lewis Ford, Chaplain RN, HMS SUFFOLK

[seaJane]

I have added a query to this 2014 thread which is in Documents - Requests and which I hope people will forgive me linking to here. I am working my way through Google search results at the moment and shall move on to Google Books presently. No joy from TNA beyond what is mentioned by others in the original thread.

 

[IPT]

Clergy in the Diocese of Dunedin 1852-1919

 

FORD, WILLIAM LEWIS
born 19 Dec 1887 Wellington New Zealand
killed 18(??) May 1918 in shooting accident on trip ashore from HMS SUFFOLK Vladivostock Russia;
died unmarried
Education
1907-1911 Selwyn College Dunedin
10 Mar 1912 deacon Dunedin
18 May 1913 priest Dunedin (92;151)
Positions
year in parish work in Auckland
1907 lay reader Holy Innocents Woodhaugh diocese Dunedin
09 May 1911 assistant (to SWINBURN W) curate Stewart island
18 May 1913 vicar Stewart Island (151)
1914 departed for Sydney Australia (9)
16 Apr 1914 assistant (to CROTTY Horace) curate S Thomas North Sydney diocese Sydney
01 Sept 1915-31 Mar 1916 curate S John Shoalhaven (111)
1915 residing Lane Cove Road North Sydney NSW (8)
14 Mar 1916 letters testimonial from Abp Sydney to Abp Canterbury (111)
1916-1918 chaplain HMS SWIFTSURE
-May 1918 chaplain HMS SUFFOLK (324)

 

Edited 22 February , 2019 by IPT

[seaJane]

Thanks IPT! 

 

I just found this obituary on page 5 of this online paper: file:///H:/Downloads/ESD_19180810.pdf - best located by using Ctrl+F, [return] and searching on his name. Suspect you may have done the same, in which case apologies. 

 

There seems to be some mystery about his death, according to my enquirer. Someone on the older thread indicated that the logs for SUFFOLK had only survived in TNA to 1916, but whatever the case was then, the logs for 1914-20 are all present and correct, so I will direct the enquirer to Kew.

 

sJ