SMALLMAN Sidney

  • First Name(s):
    Sidney 
  • Surname:
    SMALLMAN
  • Service Number:
    309128
  • Rank:

    Mechanician

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Navy
  • Naval Service:
    Royal Navy
  • Ship:
    HMS Queen Mary
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    31st May 1916
  • Age At Death:
    29
  • Place of Death:
    Battle of Jutland, North Sea
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, England, Panel 15.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of John and Lucy Smallman, of Ditton Priors, Salop; husband of Florence Maud Smallman, 31 Southill Rd., Chatham

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SMALLMAN Sidney Is Named On These Memorials

Ditton Priors St John the Baptist Church

Further Information About SMALLMAN Sidney

1911 Census
Duke of Edinburgh, 5th Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, Gibraltar
Sidney Joseph Smallman, age 24, single, Acting S.P.O., born Ditton’s Prior, Shropshire, Wesleyan

HMS Queen Mary was a battle cruiser. On the first day of the Battle of Jutland, she was hit by several German shells fired from SMS Defflinger, one of which penetrated into the ship’s magazines. The ensuing explosion sank the ship in minutes with the loss of 1,266 of her crew. She was the largest warship sunk by the German Navy in World War 1, her loss was a severe blow to the Royal Navy as her 13.5 inch guns were the most accurate in the British Fleet.

Sidney Smallman has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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