I Was on the Hampshire - The Story of Kitchener's Death, by W C Farnden | 4-5 June 1916 | Episode 113
Published on 4 June 1916
Walter Charles Farnden was a stoker aboard H.M.S. Hampshire, the armoured cruiser which was detailed by the Admiralty to take Lord Kitchener to Russia to confer with the Tsar on the military situation. But, in a raging storm off the Orkneys on its way to Archangel, the Hampshire struck a mine and sank in less than fifteen minutes.
Eight hundred officers and men, including Lord Kitchener and his staff, were drowned. There were only twelve survivors, of whom Farnden was one.
He later became a shunter at Bognor Regis.