LEAVING CHELTENHAM …………..and all that was dear |
Cheltonians Who Were Killed or Lost At Sea During The Great War |
Location |
Name |
From Vessel |
Date |
Aegean Sea (off Dardanelles) |
Pte William Webb, RMLI |
HMS Goliath |
13th May 1915 |
Aegean Sea (Sea of Marmara) |
Lt Cdr Theodore Robert Brodie RN |
Submarine E15 |
17th April 1915 |
Atlantic |
AB Sidney Henry Fletcher, Mercantile Marine |
SS Lorca |
29th October 1916 |
Baltic Sea |
Lt Cdr Robert Crosbie Halahan, RN Lt Walter Luke Landale, RN |
HM Submarine E18 HM Submarine E18 |
11th June 1916 11th June 1916 |
Bristol Channel |
Lt Cdr Basil Stratford Noake RN |
HMS Begonia |
6th October 1917 |
Cape Villano (off Spain) |
Signaller Ernest Godfrey Dicks RN |
SS Queen |
28th June 1918 |
Coronel (off Chile) |
Captain Frank Brandt RN Pte Francis Joseph Cresswell RMLI AB Horace William Gilbert RN AB Thomas Henry Hooper RN PO Reginald Arthur Pigott RN AB Frederick Thomas Surman RN Stoker Edward Turner RN Stoker Harry Turner RN |
HMS Monmouth HMS Monmouth HMS Monmouth HMS Good Hope HMS Monmouth HMS Monmouth HMS Good Hope HMS Good Hope |
1st November 1914 1st November 1914 1st November 1914 1st November 1914 1st November 1914 1st November 1914 1st November 1914 1st November 1914 |
Cromarty Harbour |
Commander John Hutchings RN |
HMS Natal |
30th December 1915 |
Emden, Germany (River Ems) |
Lt John Stuart Binny Scott RN |
HM Submarine E3 |
18th November 1914 |
English Channel (off Dungeness) |
Lt Harold Courtenay Woollcombe-Boyce RN |
HMS Gurkha |
8th February 1917 |
Indian Ocean (Port of Zanzibar) |
AB Douglas Henry Wright RN (Note 7) |
HMS Pegasus |
20th September 1914 |
Ireland (off Tory Island) |
LS Frederick Charles Grimes RN Chief Steward Ernest Mason Mercantile Marine |
HMS Viknor SS Sycamore |
13th January 1915 25th August 1917 |
Irish Sea (off Holyhead) |
Pte Thomas Harry White, Hants Yeomanry |
SS Leinster |
10th October 1918 |
Jutland |
Leading Seaman William George Beach RN Major Robert Crosthwaite Colquhoun RMLI AB Sidney Dowding RN AB Robert French RN Mids Maynell Osborne Hanwell RN SBA Herbert George Hill RN Mids George Paul Hopcraft RN PO Walter Loveridge Jones RN PO Thomas Langley RN LS Douglas Hugh Preece RN AB Sidney Heard Price RN Lt Cdr Frank Goodrich Terry RN |
HMS Indefatigable HMS Invincible HMS Defence HMS Defence HMS Defence HMS Invincible HMS Queen Mary HMS Indefatigable HMS Defence HMS Lion HMS Indefatigable HMS Fortune |
31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 31st May 1916 |
Le Havre |
Pte Ernest Arthur Birt RAMC |
HMHS Salta |
10th April 1917 |
Mediterranean (off Alexandra) |
Pte Charles Hole (Note 8) |
SS Aragon |
30th December 1917 |
Mediterranean (off Algeria) |
Wireless Op Ronald Edward Lane, Mercantile Marine |
SS Cambric |
31st October 1917 |
Mediterranean (off Crete) |
Major John Thornton Lodwick, Indian Army Col Ernest Robert Rainier Swiney, Indian Army |
SS Persia SS Persia |
30th December 1915 30th December 1915 |
Mediterranean (off Gibraltar) |
Pte Reginald Francis Ruck, ASC |
SS Woodfield |
3rd November 1915 |
North Sea |
Lt Alan James Carles RN Leading Seaman Frank St Clair Holtham RN Pilot Reynolds Hamilton KITSON Mercantile Marine AB Herbert Spencer Rich RN |
HM Submarine E22 HM Submarine E50 SS Menapier HM Submarine G7 |
25th April 1916 31st January 1918 7th June 1915 1st November 1918 |
North Sea (Orford Ness) |
Lt John Ralph Bax Farwell RN Lt Harold Stephen Meats RN |
HM Submarine E30 HM Submarine E30 |
22nd November 1916 22nd November 1916 |
North Sea (off Harwich) |
Lt Charles George Rodney Phillott RN |
HM Submarine E6 |
26th December 1915 |
North Sea (off Holland) |
Mids Vernon Hector Corbyn RN |
HMS Cressy |
22nd September 1914 |
North Sea (off Whitby) |
LCpl Arthur Henry Gray RMLI |
SS Moorlands |
24th June 1918 |
North Sea (off Yarmouth) |
Flt Sub Lt Herbert Joseph Page RNAS |
NAS Yarmouth |
15th February 1916 |
Orkney Islands (Mull Head) |
AB Alfred Edwinson Green Mercantile Marine Reserve |
HMY Zarefah |
8th May 1917 |
Scapa Flow, Scotland |
Stoker Charles Herbert Ashen RN AB Albert Edward Green RN Surgeon Edmund Cox RN |
HMS Narborough HMS Opal HMS Vanguard |
12th January 1918 12th January 1918 9th July 1917 |
Cheltonians Buried at Sea During The Great War |
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Aegean Sea (off Gallipoli) |
Capt Enderby Gordon Anderson (Note 9) Cpl Edward Chidley (Note 10) Pte Arthur Richard Turner (Note 11) Tpr Frank Bernard Webber (Note 12) Tpr William John Jennings (Note 13) |
SS Rewa HMHS Aquitania HMHS ? HMHS Aquitania HMHS ? |
29th July 1915 20th September 1915 12th August 1915 20th September 1915 24th October 1915 |
Indian Ocean |
Sgt Thomas Edgar Creed (Note 14) |
HMHS Dongola |
18th July 1916 |
Red Sea |
Lt Charles Albert John Ward (Note 15) |
HMHS Vita |
15th December 1918 |
Notes: 1. Chatham Naval Memorial can be viewed here. 2. Mercantile Marine Memorial can be viewed here. 3. Plymouth Naval Memorial can be viewed here. 4. Portsmouth Naval Memorial can be viewed here. 5. Salta Memorial, St Marie Cemetery, Le Havre can be viewed here. 6. Hollybrook Memorial can be seen here. 7. Wright was killed aboard HMS Pegasus and was buried, with other crew, initially at Zanzibar British Cemetery. 8. Hole was killed, with 609 others, when SS Aragon was torpedoed. His body was later recovered and buried at Hadra War Cemetery, Alexandria. 9. Anderson died at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli on 29th July 1915 and was taken aboard SS Rewa to be buried at sea. 10. Chidley was wounded at Gallipoli on 12th September 1915 and died of wounds aboard HMHS Aquitania on route to UK. 11. Turner was wounded at Gallipoli on 8th August 1915 and died of wounds aboard a HMHS on route to UK. 12. Webber became ill at Gallipoli on 18th September 1915 and died of illness aboard HMHS Aquitania on route to UK. 13. Jennings was wounded at Gallipoli on 24th September 1915 and died of wounds aboard a Hospital Ship on route to UK. 14. Creed died of illness aboard HMHS Dongola. 15. Ward was being returned to UK due to sickness and died aboard HMHS Vita on the Red Sea. 16. Full details of those who died whilst serving with the Royal Navy can be viewed here. 17. Full details of those who died whilst serving with the Mercantile Marine can be viewed here. |
Page last updated: 24th April 2018
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