Wounded Died as Prisoner of War in Germany Enlistment 29/08/1910 Next of kin address London. E.C. 18, River Street Clerkenwell England Mother Elizabeth More info Taken prisoner after the Battle of Jutland, Genower was killed in a fire at the Brandenburg camp the following year. He was bayoneted by a sentry while attempting to escape from the flames. (From Chris Bilham, on Facebook: ' J.P. Genower, known as Jack, was born in Pentonville, London in 1892 and enlisted in the RN as a Boy Seaman in 1910. On completion of his training he was drafted to the cruiser 'Proserpine' and took part in operations in the Persian Gulf in 1911-12. At the outbreak of the Great War he was in the destroyer 'Hornet', first deployed with the Harwich Force, then with the Battle Cruiser Fleet. On 1 May 1916 the entire crew was decanted into a new destroyer, the 'Nestor'. 'Nestor' was sunk whilst attacking the German line. The survivors, who included the CO, Commander Barry Bingham and Able Seaman Genower, were picked up by the Germans and brought to Germany where they became POWs. Genower was imprisoned in the Brandenburg Camp near Berlin, a camp with a particularly harsh administration. In December 1916 Genower committed a disciplinary offence and was detained in the punishment cells. On the morning of 9 March 1917 the cell block caught fire. The guard refused to unlock the door, presumably because he was unwilling to act without orders, and the soldiers formed a cordon to keep the angry prisoners from breaking in. Genower managed to smash a window and began climbing out. A soldier ran towards him and the watching prisoners thought he was going to pull him out but, instead, he bayoneted him in the chest and thrust him back into the flames. A Frenchman and eight Russians also died in the fire. After the war Commander Bingham VC wrote to his parents to express his sympathy. He said that Jack had behaved very creditably in the battle and in the motor boat and described their son as 'the right stuff".)