Can any one help me? HMS Stork was decommissioned in 1913 and renamed TS Stork (TS=Training Ship). It was then moored in the Thames just above Hammersmith and served as a training ship for adolescent boys from March 1913 until after World War II. While on board, the boys were in the spiritual care of the Vicar of Holy Innocents church, in Ravenscourt Park Hammersmith. Probably most of these boys will have later served in the armed forces (mainly Royal Navy) and some will have been killed in action. Holy Innocents has a memorial to those who died in WW1 and a friend of mine is trying to write mini-biographies of those whose names appear on the memorial and if possible to explain their connection with the church. She has found one boy who died at the Battle of Jutland who is written up in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, and whose entry there mentions that he trained on the Stork. She wonders whether there might be entries in Ruvigny for other young men whose training on the Stork are similarly mentioned. It has occurred to me that if the De Ruvigny volumes have been OCR-ed, a search for the word 'Stork' might throw up some other names. Does anybody know how I might carry out such a search? Nick Member 4108 , Chesson and Variants

Nick, De Ruvigny's Roll is on Ancestry. Unfortunately, searching for the keyword 'Stork' gave no hits. Dai Bevan Gilbourne ONS On 29/04/2016 15:14, Nicholas Spence via wrote: Can any one help me? HMS Stork was decommissioned in 1913 and renamed TS Stork (TS=Training Ship). It was then moored in the Thames just above Hammersmith and served as a training ship for adolescent boys from March 1913 until after World War II. While on board, the boys were in the spiritual care of the Vicar of Holy Innocents church, in Ravenscourt Park Hammersmith. Probably most of these boys will have later served in the armed forces (mainly Royal Navy) and some will have been killed in action. Holy Innocents has a memorial to those who died in WW1 and a friend of mine is trying to write mini-biographies of those whose names appear on the memorial and if possible to explain their connection with the church. She has found one boy who died at the Battle of Jutland who is written up in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, and whose entry there mentions that he trained on the Stork. She wonders whether there might be entries in Ruvigny for other young men whose training on the Stork are similarly mentioned. It has occurred to me that if the De Ruvigny volumes have been OCR-ed, a search for the word 'Stork' might throw up some other names. Does anybody know how I might carry out such a search? Nick Member 4108 , Chesson and Variants

Nick The roll is digitised, indexed and the images are available on findmypast. It doesn't appear as though they have indexed all the text but you can page through the images. Hope this helps Regards John Hanson Researcher, The Halsted Trust Website - www.halstedresearch.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Spence via Sent: 29 April 2016 15:15 To: [email protected] Subject: [G] Training ship Stork Can any one help me? HMS Stork was decommissioned in 1913 and renamed TS Stork (TS=Training Ship). It was then moored in the Thames just above Hammersmith and served as a training ship for adolescent boys from March 1913 until after World War II. While on board, the boys were in the spiritual care of the Vicar of Holy Innocents church, in Ravenscourt Park Hammersmith. Probably most of these boys will have later served in the armed forces (mainly Royal Navy) and some will have been killed in action. Holy Innocents has a memorial to those who died in WW1 and a friend of mine is trying to write mini-biographies of those whose names appear on the memorial and if possible to explain their connection with the church. She has found one boy who died at the Battle of Jutland who is written up in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, and whose entry there mentions that he trained on the Stork. She wonders whether there might be entries in Ruvigny for other young men whose training on the Stork are similarly mentioned. It has occurred to me that if the De Ruvigny volumes have been OCR-ed, a search for the word 'Stork' might throw up some other names. Does anybody know how I might carry out such a search? Nick Member 4108 , Chesson and Variants _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message