BORN BARROW, LANCS 19/10/1884. SON OF JAMES BROWN & CATHERINE, OF 28 REDBOURNE STREET, HULL. JOINED ROYAL NAVY IN 1904. RESIDED AT 23 ALBERMARLE TERRACE, BOULEVARD, HULL. HE HAD SERVED ELEVEN YEARS IN THE NAVY WAS A CARPENTER ON HMS “GOOD HOPE”, WHICH WAS SUNK, ON 01/11/1914, HE DROWNED AGED 28. LISTED AS KILLED ON THE REDBOURNE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 13 September 1916). HIS NAME IS ALSO LISTED ON ST MATHEWS CHURCH WW1 MEMORIAL, BOULEVARD, HULL. HE LEFT A WIDOWED MOTHER WHO WAS SORELY DEPENDENT ON HIM.
HIS BROTHER IN LAW, J WILLIAMS, WAS LOST ON HMS “CRESSEY”. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 10/11/1914. *
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
