BORN HULL 20/05/1889. SON OF STEPHEN CARMICHAEL BATTY (1858-1935) AND MILLICENT SUTTON (1860-1914). A ROYAL NAVY STOKER. KILLED OFF CHILLI COAST IN BATTLE OF CORONEL, ON 01/11/1914, AGED 24. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/11/1914. HIS MOTHER HAD DIED TWO MONTHS EARLIER. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH ARE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 20TH NOVEMBER 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.
