Arthur Edmund Pilbeam

An excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Joyce: "The Discovery expedition was Joyce's Antarctic baptism, although for the next three years he kept a relatively low profile; Scott scarcely mentions him in The Voyage of the Discovery, and Edward Wilson's diaries not at all. It seems that he took readily to Antarctic life,[5] gaining experience in sledging and dog-driving techniques and other aspects of Antarctic exploration. He did not figure in the main journeys of the expedition, although towards the end he joined Arthur Pilbeam and Frank Wild in an attempt to climb Mount Erebus, ascending to some 3,000 feet (910 m)."

From http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/news/trawler-lost-with-all-hands-all-...: "ON March 28, 1916, the steam trawler Saxon Prince was lost with all hands off Dover. She had been used as a mine sweeper after being requisitioned by the Admiralty in August 1914. As was common, the crew was made up of former fishermen who volunteered to stay with the vessel. The Saxon Prince was skippered by George Albert Rose, of Tyne Street, North Shields, who, it was said by the Shields Daily News in its report of the tragedy on April 6 ‘was amongst the best known and most popular trawler skippers of the north east coast’. Twelve men are listed on the Royal Navy Roll of Honour as lost in the incident, but here reports of press at the time and modern history part company with official records. The newspaper named a crew of eight – men listed in the casualty column this week. Other men listed on the Naval Memorial at Chatham do not feature so we have to presume they were not local. The paper did mention John Forrest, of South Shields, and a Wellesley boy, George Cox. Navy records show that Cox, a signal boy aged 16, died of wounds received serving on another vessel a few days later. No doubt confusion in reports coming back to North Shields associated Cox with the Saxon Prince, although he was in fact lost from HM Yacht Amalthea and is buried at the Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery on Southampton Water. A further variance in the reported facts of the case is provided by the details given in Ron Wright’s Beyond the Piers – a tribute to the Fishermen of North Shields. Wright reports that the Saxon Prince (SN58) had served as a minesweeper No. 262 up to March 1916, and then returned to fishing duties but had disappeared in a storm off Dover with the loss of nine. So there is no certainty about the facts of the case but as the men are all seemingly regarded as being serving naval personnel at the time of their deaths, and thus included in the navy honour, we must assume the vessel was still actively serving in some capacity. Mrs Rose, the skipper’s widow, had received a letter of condolence from the King. The paper later added that the vessel had been lost by a mine disaster. So we have no certainty as to the facts. THIS week’s casualty list gives details of men from the former Tynemouth Borough who were killed on March 28, 1916, in the sinking of the steam trawler Saxon Prince. From North Shields Charters, Robert, age 21 deck hand, RNR, 1 Stephenson Street, son of John Davidson Charters and Margaret Charters (nee Tully, stepson of Susannah Charters (nee Irving), he had seven siblings, formerly a miner. Lorimer, Thomas aged 40, trimmer, RNR, 2 Pant Street, husband of Anne Lorimer. Details needed. Proffitt, Charles Marshall, age 42, deck hand, RNR, 194 Linskill Street, son of William and Hannah, husband of Margaret Alice. Rose, George Albert, age 44, Skipper, RNR, 63 Tyne Street, son of Thomas Swan Rose and Pleasants Rose, husband of Janet. Smailes, George Oswald, age 40, engineman, RNR, 31 Coburg Street, husband of Alice. Details needed. Tomlinson, Thomas James, Rennoldson, age 22, 43 Bell Street, son of Thomas and Jean, seven siblings. Also lost – no details. Forrest, Thomas, of South Shields. Brooks, Charles W, stoker RNR. Pilbeam, Arthur E, Petty Officer, RNR."

From The Dover War Memorial Project: "Pilbeam Arthur Edmund, 183240,Petty Officer, Royal Fleet Reserve, from 1 St James Passage, Townwall Street, born in Hastings on 30 March, 1878, married to Ellen Mary Pilbeam, one of twelve men who died on 28 March 1916, when Saxon Prince, a minesweeper, was lost in a storm in the Straits, commemorated in Dover Patrol Book of Remembrance, Panel 12."

PILBEAM, ARTHUR EDWARD

Rank: Petty Officer 2nd Class
Service No: 183240
Date of Death: 28/03/1916
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy (RFR/PO/B/2562). H.M. Trawler "Saxon Prince."
Panel Reference: 12.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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