This community remembers the 4 officers and 22 men who died on HMS Barham at the Battle of Jutland. There is a memorial to 21 of the 22 men at Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney and Chaplain The Reverend Henry Dixon Dixon-Wright is commemorated separately in the same cemetery. Herbert Laverock is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Lt Blyth on the Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton and Fleet Paymaster John Spencer Place on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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Born 1886
Royal Navy SS713
Royal Navy Dev B 2844 Able Seaman Royal Fleet Reserve - HMS Barham
Born 1879
Died 1928
Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander
Born 1899
Died 1916
Royal Navy J33434 Boy 1st Class HMS Barham 5th Battle Squadron
Born 1895
Royal Navy 17917 Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division
Born 1891
Royal Navy L534 Officer's Steward 2nd Class HMS Barham