Sub Lieutenant Patrick Hugo Gerald Irving Vance

Regiment: H.M.S. Shark
Date published: 28/07/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 31/05/1916
Age at death: 19
Cemetery: Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Plot: 11
Information: Sub-Lieutenant Patrick Hugo Gerald Irving Vance, H.M.S. Shark, which went down fighting gallantly in the forefront of the British destroyers against the German High Sea Fleet in the battle off the coast of Jutland. Lieut. Vance was the only son of Mr. J. G. Irving Vance, of Helen's Bay, Co. Down, High Sheriff of Co. Monaghan.