|
Name : Francis Victor Kinder Son of : Joseph Kinder and Eliza Robinson Kinder (née Grove), of Meriden, Warwickshire. Born : 1888, Allesley, Meriden, Warwickshire. Baptised : 25 Dec 1988, Allesley, Meriden, Warwickshire. Married 1920, Elsie Rose Stedman, Chelsea, London. |
|
Census information : 1891 : Joseph and Eliza Kinder, with their children including Francis aged 3, are at School House, Allesley, Meriden, Warwickshire. Joseph Kinder is a Schoolmaster. 1901 : Joseph and Eliza Kinder, with their children including Francis aged 13, are at Ivy House, Allesley, Meriden, Warwickshire. Joseph Kinder is a Schoolmaster. 1911 : not located |
|
|
Electoral Roll information : 1922 : Francis and Elsie Kinder are listed at 22 Sterne Street, Hammersmith, London. 1925 : Francis and Elsie Kinder are listed at The Cottage, Victoria Street, Ventnor. 1929 : Francis and Elsie Kinder are listed at Ellerslie, Trinity Road, Ventnor. 1933 - 38 : Francis and Elsie Kinder are listed at Fairhope, Alpine Road, Ventnor. |
|
|
Service Details : First Radio Officer Francis Victor Kinder, Merchant Navy, S.S. Clan Buchanan (Glasgow). Francis V Kinder was appointed a Certified Wireless Operator by the General Post Office in 1915. It is assumed he joined the Merchant Navy shortly after, as The National Archives hold medal cards for him for both WW I and WW II. |
|
|
Casualty Details : Died : 8th May 1941 aged 53. Commemorated at : Tower Hill Memorial Panel 30. CWGC Record |
|
|
Commemorated on this Memorial :
Ventnor War Memorial |
|
|
Documents and Newspaper cuttings :
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, 30 May 1941 DEATHS KINDER. - At sea, through enemy action, Francis Victor Kinder, radio operator, of Fairhope, Ventnor. Page 3 Ventnor Resident Feared Lost at Sea It is feared that Mr. Francis Victor Kinder, of Fairhope, Alpine Road, Ventnor, has lost his life through the sinking, by enemy action, of the ship upon which he was serving as a radio officer. News of the disaster reached Mrs. Kinder on Monday. The last letter she received from her husband came from South Africa recently. It is gathered that there were only some eight survivors. Mr. Kinder was well-known locally in golf and cricketing circles and as a member of the Conservative Club. All who knew him will hear the report with much regret and will extend to Mrs. Kinder their sincere condolence in her great anxiety. 
National Probate Calendar 1942 |
|
|
Links :
See S.S. Clan Buchanan Wreck Site information. |
|
|
Acknowledgments :
Janet Griffin for newspaper research |
|
|
Page status :
Page last updated : 5 August 2014 (added to website) |
Memorials & Monuments
|
|
|
|
|