Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Ronald Niel Stuart

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Ronald Niel Stuart

World War One Victoria Cross recipient with a long an varied maritime career. Been working at this for a couple of days and have turned it from this into its current shape. Planning to go to FA with this eventually, and any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks--Jackyd101 23:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support. Comment. I think it's a good article, but have just a few suggestions:
  • All dates (month and day) should be wikilinked.
  • The information in the last paragraph under "HMS Tamarisk" about him getting married and having children isn't cited.
  • What was the cause of his death? Cla68 07:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

marriage cited, cause of death isn't mentioned in any of the sources. He was 67 and its unlikely to be anything other than natural causes, but I didn't want to assume. I thought I had Wikilinked all the dates (excluding solo years), which ones have I missed? Thankyou for your comments.--Jackyd101 09:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

• • This appears to be a good article that is well-cited. 11:41, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support This is really nicely done, and a very interesting article. Should easily make A-Class at least. Raymond Palmer 15:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support Carom 21:06, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support Good read BUT a tiny bit more info - a couple of words - about the later merchantmen might be appropriate. We've only really got their tonnages. Was there a reconciliation with his children in later life? Roger 06:29, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I've had a look, but there really isn't much out there on these ships at this time. Duchess of York and Empress of Britain both had quite extensive war careers before being sunk, but that is outside the remit of this article. The only other important thing was the royal tour of Canada on the Empress of Britain, but that was in 1939 after he had left the ship. I've put in some small details, but I couldn't expand it much further. Reading between the lines, I don't think he ever did reconcile with his children, but again this is not explicitly stated anywhere and I'm loathe to guess. Thankyou for your comments.--Jackyd101 10:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

• Comment After some searching on a seperate matter, I accidentally turned up the full London Gazette citation for this VC action (which I had given up on finding before, it was released at a later date due to official secrecy). I have now added it (and a few supplementary details) to the article. It has not dramatically changed the piece, but has made it a bit longer. Just wanted to add this note here to clarify its sudden appearance.--Jackyd101 01:38, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

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