Captain Ronald Neil STUART VC. DSO. RD. U.S Navy Cross. Royal Naval Reserve. HMS “Cassin”. Formerly HMS “Pargust”, Formerly HMS Q.5 (Loderer). Born 26th August 1886 at 31, Kelvin Grove, Toxteth Park, Liverpool. Died at Beryl Lodge, Charing, Kent on 8th February 1954 aged 67 years. Son of Neil Stuart a master mariner of Scottish Ancestry from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Ronald lived with his sisters at “Beryl Lodge”, Charing, Kent. Buried locally in the Charing Parish Burial Ground,School Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent (new VC headstone erected April 2005). http://www.kentfallen.com/PDF REPORTS/STUART VC.pdf Ronald Neil Stuart was born in 1886 in Liverpool to Neil Stuart and Mary Harrison, both from experienced seafaring families. Neil Sr. had been born on Prince Edward Island in Canada and had met and married Mary in Montreal. She was the daughter of a master mariner from Australia In the 1880s the family moved to Liverpool, where Stuart was born as the youngest of six children. Neil worked in the city as a dock superintendent and owner of a wholesale tea shop before dying suddenly whilst preparing for a return to the Merchant Navy http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10716567
