William Stewart Stewart

A Flight Sub Lieutenant with Cranwell Naval Air Station, William died on 8th of November 1916 at the age of 19. 

William was born at London on 9 April 1897, a son of Joseph Fox Tarratt and Mary Georgina Helen McNeill (or Rogers) of Clarendon Lowestoft. 

Officially William's full name was William Stewart Tarratt Stewart of Coll. 

William served with the Royal Naval Air Service from 7 August 1915. William was awarded his Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate after a successful assessment flying a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Central Flying School, Upavon, on 6 October 1915. 

On 11 November 1915 he was seconded for experimental duties. On 1 April 1916 he was posted to Cranwell Naval Air Station. He was appointed assistant instructor on 31 August 1916.

William was flying in an Avro 504B, number 1049, when it crashed and he died from his injuries. 

William's brother, Duncan Tarratt, served with the Seaforth Highlanders and died in 1917.