| 09/06/2020 |
Able Seaman joined the crew of H.M.S. Black Prince on 21st April 1914. |
| 09/06/2020 |
Able Seaman Frank Sutton served on board many ships during his Royal Navy career. |
| 17/04/2016 |
Mrs Sutton of Drumagarner House, Kilrea has been informed that her son, Able Seaman Frank Edward Sutton, went down in H.M.S. Black Prince in a naval engagement in the North Sea. |
| 17/04/2016 |
From the Northern Constitution dated 8th July 1916: |
| 28/03/2016 |
Frank Edward Sutton was the second son of William Robert and Elizabeth Sutton. Frank was born on 17th November 1890 in Portsmouth. |
| 28/03/2016 |
Frank is also commemorated on St Cuthbert’s Church WW1 Memorial, Copnor, Portsmouth. |
| 28/03/2016 |
Able Seaman Frank Sutton is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. |
| 28/03/2016 |
Able Seaman Frank Edward Sutton died on 13st May 1916 when the ship was lost at the Battle of Jutland. |
| 28/03/2016 |
In 1911, he was serving on HMS Good Hope and his father was boarding at 35 Folkestone Road, Copnor. |
| 28/03/2016 |
He enlisted on his eighteenth birthday in 1908 for 12 years. |
| 28/03/2016 |
Frank joined the Navy straight from The Royal Hospital School, Greenwich as Boy 2nd class in May 1906. |
| 28/03/2016 |
Frank’s Sutton only connection to Kilrea was that his mother lived at Drumagarner House, Kilrea for a time. There is no evidence to suggest Frank Edward Sutton lived or even visited Kilrea. |
| 28/03/2016 |
The CWGC record Able Seaman Frank Sutton as the son of William Robert Sutton, of 33, Folkestone Rd., Copnor, Portsmouth. |
