In Burnham-on-Crouch Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of MB/160 Chief Motor Mechanic Arthur Stanes serving on H.M.S. Satellite with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died 24/05/1918.
The son of Mr. H. P. and Mrs. M. A. Stanes, of Mariner Cottage, 6, Princes Road, Burnham-on-Crouch. His brother Alfred Stanes also fell.
He died from illness at H.M.S. Satellite, used as a hospital ship which was moored in the Tyne at the time of his death.
W. Bro. Revd. David T. Youngson, PPAG Chaplain, Northumberland offers the following:
The information given below in respect of some of the brethren is the best possible conclusions from Lodge records, Grand Lodge records, Commonwealth War Graves Commission and data in respect of merchant ship losses during the First World War
240 St Hilda’s Lodge
Year of Warrant 1780
Freemasons Hall, South Shields
MB/160 Chief Motor Mechanic STANES Arthur
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
HMS Satellite.
He was Initiated on the 10th September 1917; Passed 8th October 1917 and Raised on the 12th November 1917. He died on the 24th May 1918 aged 21 and is buried in Burnham-on-Crouch Cemetery, Essex, Grave Reference B.U.124.
His brother R/17643 Rifleman STANES Alfred served with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 20th Battalion and was killed in action on the 19th June 1917 age 28 and is Remembered on the Arras Memorial, France, Bay 7.
HMS Satellite was a satellite class corvette which was used by the RNR as a drill ship and hospital ship from 1904.
Arthur Stanes is remembered in the Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-18 (London) and in our List of Ships’ Crews.
