ERNEST STANLEY CUBISS.
Engine Room Artificer. Royal Navy.
Ernest S. Cubiss attended School from 1905 to 1907. In 1907 he was successful in the competitive examination held by the Admiralty for boys in Secondary Schools who wish to become engineers in the Royal Navy. He went as an artificer to Portsmouth, and there received four years’ training. He was fully qualified when the war broke out, and served as chief petty officer on board a destroyer. He was very successful in his work, and had been recommended for promotion; but was unfortunately drowned on January i2th, 1918. The circumstances attending his death may be briefly described. At the time he was on H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyer “Opal.” The boat was returning to its base after being on patrol duty and ran aground during a violent snowstorm with heavy seas raging round them. No help was possible, and although an attempt was made to lower a boat, it broke away. One single survivor managed to; swim ashore, and after living for 36 hours on sodden biscuits and snow, was picked up by a trawler.
Ernest Cubiss was a young man who was making his way in the Navy by real grit. The School is proud of him, and we all deeply regret this sad end.
Obituary from the Keighlian Nov. 1918
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Cradled in Freedom and Schooled in Courage,
they gave themselves for the Liberty of their Country and the World.