BORN HULL 13/10/1880. SON OF HENRY NOVELL (1840-1915) AND MARY SARAH GREGORY (1852-1918), OF 11 GLADSTONE TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HIS WIFE EMILY NEILSON AND TWO CHILDREN LIVED AT ISABELLA COTTAGE, CANAL STREET, MOUNT HOOLEY, ABERDEEN. SERVED AS A ROYAL NAVY GUNNER. LOST WITH ALL HANDS (SOME 919 MEN) ON HMS “GOOD HOPE“, 01/11/1914, AT THE BATTLE OF CORONEL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL AND LINCOLNSHIRE TIMES, ON 14/11/1914.
The Battle of Coronel HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth were sunk by the German fleet (Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee), superior in both shell range and speed. Armoured cruisers Gneisenau and Sharnhorst lead the main attacks in the Battle of Coronel, on 1 November 1914, off the Chilean coast. Monmouth was hit by Gneisenau and was on fire. Nurnberg found her burning and after refusing to surrender, Nurnberg finished her off with 75 shells. All hands on both cruisers HMS Good Hope (900) and HMS Monmouth (678) were lost. HMS Glasgow and HMS Otranto escaped. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138092
Novell, William
First name:
WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
189603
Rank:
Gunner
Date Died
01/11/1914
Place died:
Sea
Age:
34
11 GLADSTONE TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL, UK
