Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Southsea Common

 

Son of Batiste and Mrs. Ethel Le Milliere, of St. Martin's, Alderney, Channel Islands.

Enlisted 02/12/1913

Killed in explosion at Sheerness, aged 19 years

 

Commemorated on:
Alderney War Memorial, Victoria Street
Memorial in St Anne's Church, Alderney

 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record

 

Stoker 2nd Class John Batiste Charles Le Milliere
Royal Navy. H.M.S. "Bulwark"
26/11/1914

1914 Star

VICTIM OF THE BULWARK DISASTER

On the 26th November 1914 while loading ammunition at Sheerness, she was destroyed by a huge explosion, probably caused by black powder charges being mishandled, only 12 men survived.

 

H.M.S.Bulwark