No.K/39618 (CH), Stoker 2, Thomas Robert SCOTT
Aged 29
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Thomas Robert Scott was born in Great Barton on 13th June 1887 (3rd qtr 1887 Thingoe 4a:680) son of Richard Millard and Elizabeth Jane
SCOTT (née BROWN),
1891 census...Aged 3, he was at Miller's House, Great Barton with his father Richard M SCOTT [35] miller/biscuit maker; his mother Elizabeth J [35] born Mildenhall; sisters Anna N [8], Daisy [6], Charlotte [5] and Gwendoline [1]. All except his mother were born in Great Barton. 1901 census...Aged 13, he was at Thursby Lane, Ipswich with his parents and sisters Daisy and Charlotte. 1911 census...Aged 23, a lay reader, he was at 42 Friars Street, Ipswich with his parents and sisters Mary Ethel [18] and Elsie [14] both born Great Barton. His parents were later at Barton Cottage, Holland Road, Felixstowe. |
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A Clerk in Holy Orders, he enlisted on 6th January 1917 as Stoker 2,at HMS Pembroke in Chatham until 27th March when he was posted to HMS
Hannibal ( a depot ship in Mediterranean)
His actual Navy service record has him lost in HMTS "Arcadian" On 15 April 1917 Arcadian was en route from Thessaloniki (Salonika) to Alexandria with a company of 1,335 troops and crew and escorted by a Japanese Navy destroyer. Shortly after completing a boat drill, while 26 miles north east of the Greek island of Milos, Arcadian was hit by single torpedo from the German submarine SM UC-74 and sank within six minutes with the loss of 279 lives. A contemporary newspaper article described how four of Arcadian's overcrowded lifeboats were successfully lowered before she sank. Some of the dead were cooks and stokers who were working below decks. The escorting destroyer had two torpedoes launched at her while she was attempting to rescue men from the water; survivors reported that she had lowered three of her own boats while going "at full speed". More survivors, who had been clinging to a raft, were rescued at midnight by the Q-ship HMS Redbreast.
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