Portsmouth: Portsmouth Naval Memorial (Hampshire)
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The name of Rear Admiral Cradock, who died at the Battle of Coronel, while commanding the 4th Squadron of the Royal Navy.
Wikipedia entries on:
* Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock (1862-1914)
* HMS Good Hope
* The Battle of Coronel
Information from the CWGC database:
CRADOCK, Sir CHRISTOPHER GEORGE F. M.
Rank: Rear Admiral
Date of Death: 01/11/1914
Age: 52
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Good Hope."
Awards: KCVO, CB
Panel Reference: 1.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Fourth son of the late Christopher Cradock, Esq., of Hartforth, Richmond, Yorks.
Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2870923/CRADOCK,%20Si…
Three of the other officer casualties named here also died when the armoured cruiser HMS Good Hope was sunk at the Battle of Coronel:
FRANCKLIN, PHILIP
Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 01/11/1914
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Good Hope."
Awards: MVO
Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2871139/FRANCKLIN,%20…
DARLEY, ARTHUR TUDOR
Rank: Commander
Date of Death: 01/11/1914
Age: 38
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Good Hope."
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Darley, of Violet Hill, Bray, Co. Wicklow, and the late Wellington Darley; husband of Charlotte Sinclair Hunt, (formerly Darley), of Wraysbury House, Emsworth, Hants.
Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2870955/DARLEY,%20ART…
PHILLIPS, ALBERT MARKHAM HOOD
Rank: Commander
Date of Death: 26/11/1914
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Bulwark."
Additional Information: Son of Capt. John Phillips, R. N. and Mrs. Phillips; husband of Feodora Phillips, of 3, Grosvenor Rd., Weymouth.
Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2871846/PHILLIPS,%20A…
SCOTT, WALTER
Rank: Commander
Date of Death: 01/11/1914
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy H.M.S. "Good Hope."
Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2872013/SCOTT,%20WALTER
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