Photo : Brian Chandler

In Newcastle (St. John Westgate & Elswick) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

In loving memory of
Nicholas, beloved husband of Rachel Waugh
who died Nov.8th 1916, aged 54 years,
also of James, their eldest son,
who was lost on H.M.S. Hampshire, 5th June 1916, aged 28 years,
and Nicholas, their son who died in infancy
also of Annie, beloved daughter of the above
died September 24th 1930, aged 39 years
also of the above Rachel Waugh
died November 3rd 1933 aged 75 years.

James was born in the first quarter of 1888 at Ford, Northumberland, the son of Nicholas and Rachel (nee Mather) of 61 Monday Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.

He served as a Stoker 1st Class on H.M.S. 'Hampshire' which allegedly struck a mine and sank off the Orkneys while taking the Secretary of State for War, Lord Kitchener, to a secret meeting in Northern Russia with the Tsar.

Acknowledgements: Ron Carson

James Waugh is remembered in our List of Ships’ crews.

H.M.S. Hampshire crew list
H.M.S. Hampshire
The CWGC entry for Stoker 1st Class Waugh