HMS Mars
According to John Sunter’s birth certificate his father, Charles Sunter, served as a stoker on HMS Mars. If you click on this link you will find more information about this troup mover together with some pictures. The website says:
“HMS Mars of the Majestic Class battleships. Mars served with the Channel Fleet in the winter of 1906 and again in 1907. At the outbreak of WW1 she served with the 4th Division of the Home Fleet. Mars then served as a guardship in the Humber in August 1914. With her turrets removed at Belfast she became a transport ship and covered the evacuations of Anzac and Cape Helles in January 1916. This evacuation was a major event with 83,048 troops, 186 guns and 1697 horse drawn vehicles with 4,695 horses and mules. It was expected this evacuation would produce about 30,000 casualties, and Hospitals were prepared for this number at the end only 2 men were wounded in the evacuation. On her return HMS Mars became base ship at Invergordon. HMS Mars was finally sold for breaking May 1921.”
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