Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Notes for Robert Mends
His birth index:

First name(s) ROBERT
Last name MENDS
Birth year 1889
Birth quarter 1
Registration month -
Mother's last name -
District ALVERSTOKE
County Hampshire
Country England
Volume 2B
Page 552
Record set England & Wales births 1837-2006
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His birth certificate says:

Registration: 1889 in the sub-district of Alverstoke of the district of Alverstoke in the County of Southampton:

RegNo: 113
Birth: Ninth Jan 1889
Birth Place: 1 North Terrace,Anglsey
Forename:    Robert
Father: Bowen Stilon Mends
Mother: Ada Latham Mends formerly Wilson
Fr’s job: Surgeon RN
Informant: B S Mends Father 1 North Terrace Anglesey
Reg date: Twenty fifth January 1889
Registrar: Wm Mipellooth(?)
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Not in 1891 census, nor his parents.

In 1901 he was at school in Eastbourne, age 12, born in Anglesea [sic], Hants.

In 1911 he was a Lieutenant in HMS Isis, single, aged 22 and born in Alverstoke Hants.

He served in the battle of Jutland and was commended in the London Gazette of 15 Sept 1916 and also received the French Croix de Guerre.
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There is a memoir of him, in The Northern Times of 13 Nov 2015  as living in Porthomack (where?) with his wife, he spoke of being on HMS Warrior at Jutland, which was sunk in the battle,  He had a daughter Jos who lived in Jedburgh.
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