(The Prince Consort’s Own) Rifle Brigade, eldest _s._ of the
Rev. Robert Russell Cobbold, M.A., Rector of Hitcham, Ipswich, by his
wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late Frederick Wanklyn, of Buenos
Aires, and gdson. of the late Rev. Robert Henry Cobbold, Rector of
Ross; _b._ Earl’s Barton Vicarage, co. Northampton, 3 Dec 1892;
educ. King’s College Choir School, Marlborough College (Foundation
Scholar and Junior Scholar), and at St. John’s College, Cambridge
(Classical Scholar). At Cambridge he took an active part in the work
of the O.T.C., and on the outbreak of war was given a commission in
the Rifle Brigade, 7 Nov. 1914, to date from 14 Aug. To quote the
“Eagle,” vol. xxxvi, Dec. 1914: “At the beginning of the term the task
was a formidable one. There was plenty of enthusiasm, but very little
experience--a mass of untrained material. But in R. H. W. Cobbold A
Coy. had an almost ideal O.T.C. officer. The work which he did for the
month before his knee got strong enough for him to take a commission
in the Rifle Brigade was absolutely invaluable. When he went the most
difficult part of the task was over.” He was promoted Lieut. 19 Dec.
following; went to the Front, 13 May, 1915, where he was attached to
the 2nd Battn. and appointed machine gun officer, and was killed in
action near Fleurbaix, 9 Sept. 1915; _unm._ Major-Gen. H. Hudson,
commanding 8th Division, wrote: “Your son had done excellent work
whilst serving in this division, and was a most promising officer. You
have every reason to be proud of his gallantry and devotion to duty.”
And Lieut.-Col. F. Nugent, commanding 2nd Rifle Brigade: “Your boy was
machine gun officer to this battn., and I had a special opportunity
of knowing what a splendid fellow he was. Absolutely fearless, and a
really fine leader of men. His machine gunners loved him, and would
have followed him anywhere. A really good machine gun officer like him
is rare.” At Cambridge he rowed in his college first boat.
[Illustration: =Robert H. W. Cobbold.=]
=COBBY, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, E.R.A., 3rd Class, 271735, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=COBERN, WESLEY VINCENT=, Private, No. 8502, 3rd Rifle Brigade,
3rd _s._ of Thomas William Cobern, of 72, Parchment Street,
Winchester, Merchant Tailor, by his wife, Agnes Eliza, dau. of George
Drew; _b._ Winchester, 6 May, 1883; educ. Wesleyan Day School
there; joined the 3rd Rifle Brigade, 27 June, 1901; and on the outbreak
of war went out to France with the first Expeditionary Force. On the
night of 17–18 Oct. 1914, the 3rd Rifle Brigade were billeted at a
school near Armentières. On the early morning of 18 Oct. they were
preparing breakfast when bugle sounded “Stand to Arms” at 5.30 a.m.
The attack on a village called Prehencies commenced at 6. The railway
from Armentières to Lille had to be crossed near Le Halte Station.
Cobern was shot in the left arm, almost at the same time Sergt. Smith
was shot in the head. He threw off his equipment and helped to bandage
the Sergt.’s wound. Remembering that he had a scarf in his valise
that would be useful, he went to where his equipment was lying on the
railway, and was shot dead. He was buried with many others of the regt.
who fell at the same time by the 139th Saxon Regt. of the German Army.
There were 600 casualties on that day in the 3rd Rifle Brigade alone.
His brother, L.-Corpl. W. G. Cobern died on active service, 13 June,
1915 (see following notice).
[Illustration: =Wesley Vincent Cobern.=]
=COBERN, WILFRID GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 2570, 4th Battn. Hampshire
Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Thomas William Cobern, of 72,
Parchment Street, Winchester, Merchant Tailor, etc. (see preceding
notice); _b._ Winchester, 1 Sept. 1878; educ. Wesleyan Day School
there; served for over 10 years in the 1st Volunteer Battn. of the
Hampshire Regt., and on the outbreak of the war joined the 4th Battn.
of the Hants Regt. for foreign service, 6 Aug. 1914. He died of heat
stroke at Basra, in the Persian Gulf, 13 June, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Wilfrid George Cobern.=]
=COCHRAN, LIONEL FRANCIS ABINGDON=, Capt., 72nd, attd. 92nd,
Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd _s._ of the late Col. Francis Cochran,
1st Hampshire Regt., who was Deputy Judge-Advocate under the late
Lord St. Helier (then Sir Francis Jeune) during the South African
war, by his wife, Amy Isabel Gray, eldest dau. of Abingdon Compton,
Bombay Civil Service, and gdson. of Francis Cochran, of Balfour;
_b._ Edinburgh, 20 March, 1882; educ. by private tutors and in
Germany, where he was when the Boer war broke out. He joined the 3rd
(Militia) Battn. Leinster Regt. at Queenstown when only 17 in Feb.
1900, and, proceeding with it to South Africa, served on the lines of
communications, being twice given responsible posts and a commission
from Lord Roberts in the Worcester Regt., and the Queen’s medal with
three clasps. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted
Lieut. 21 Dec. following, and after being first attached to the 1st
Hants Regt., was transferred in 1901 to the Indian Army. He joined
the 72nd Punjabis in Burmah, became double company officer, 7 July,
1905, received his company 17 Nov. 1909, and served with them until
Sept. 1914, when he was selected to proceed with the 92nd Punjabis on
Active Service. They were sent to guard the canal at Ismailia, and
Capt. Cochran was killed in action while leading his men at Tussum on
the Suez Canal, 4 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Ismailia; _unm._ He
was specially mentioned in Gen. Sir John Maxwell’s Despatch of 16 Feb.
1915 [London Gazette, 21 June, 1916]. The officers of the 72nd Punjabis
erected a mural tablet to his memory in St. Mary Bolton’s Church, S.W.,
and the officers of the 92nd Punjabis put up a cross and stone on his
grave at Ismailia. Capt. Cochran was a great traveller, having gone
nearly all over the world during his leave, and an expert motorist;
also he was a fine horseman. He several times filled the appointment
of Station Staff Officer and Cantonment Magistrate in India with great
credit.
[Illustration: =Lionel Francis A. Cochran.=]
=COCHRANE, CHARLES=, Private, No. 11101, 2nd Battn. Cameron
Highlanders, _s._ of William Cochrane; _b._ South Shields,
21 April, 1889; educ. Drummond Street School, Edinburgh; was a
Hairdresser; volunteered and enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, went to France
in April, and died of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle 11
May, 1915. He _m._ 3 June, 1900, Catherine (2, Blackfriars St.,
Edinburgh), dau. of Owen Airlie, of 49, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, and
had a son and three daus.: Francis, _b._ 24 May, 1906; Mary Jane,
_b._ 8 April, 1901; Agnes, _b._ 10 Feb. 1910; and Maria,
_b._ 3 May, 1911.
=COCKAYNE, WALTER=, Officer’s Cook, 3rd Class, L. 4215, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=COCKBURN, CHARLES JAMES=, Lieut., 6th Jats L.I., Indian Army, yr.
_s._ of the late Major Charles James Cockburn, Royal Warwickshire
Regt., by his wife, Kate Alice (Bagshot, Surrey), dau. of the late John
Waterer; _b._ Malta, 27 March, 1891; educ. Wellington College;
gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3 Sept. 1910; was attd. to the Berkshire Regt.
in India, and was transferred to the Indian Army, 29 Oct. 1911, and
promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1912. He served in France with the Meerut
Division, and afterwards in Mesopotamia, and was killed in action with
General Aylmer’s Relief Force, 7 Jan. 1916. Lieut. Cockburn was amongst
the first to receive the Military Cross. He _m._ at Cobham, Kent,
16 July, 1915, Helen, dau. of Laman Herbert Evans; _s.p._ His
elder brother, Lieut J. Cockburn, was killed in action, 25 April, 1915.
[Illustration: =Charles James Cockburn.=]
=COCKBURN, JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire
Regt., elder _s._ of the late Major Charles James Cockburn,
Royal Warwickshire Regt., by his wife, Kate Alice (Bagshot, Surrey),
dau. of the late John Waterer, of Bagshot; _b._ Malta, 3 March,
1890; educ. Wellington College. On the outbreak of war volunteered
as a Despatch Rider, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in his
father’s old regt. 3 March, 1915. He was killed while leading his men
into action at St. Julien, near Ypres; _unm._
=COCKER, EDGAR CHARLES=, Private, No. 81163, 10th (late 32nd)
Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of Edgar Charles
Cocker, of Lintlaw, via Margo, Sask., Canada, Farmer and Stonemason,
now Private, No. 887330, 188th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force
(who served thirteen years with the 4th East Surrey Volunteers before
leaving England), by his wife, Alice Jane, dau. of the late Charles
Collier, of Homerton, London; _b._ Peckham, London, 9 Oct. 1895;
educ. Peckham Park School, S.E.; Beachville, Ontario; and Yorkton,
Sask.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and
enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; left Canada with the second contingent, 22
Feb. 1915; went to France, 27 April, and was killed in action in the
front line trench at Festubert on the morning of 21 May, 1915, by the
bursting of a shell; _unm._ He was buried behind the trench close
to where the second line trench crosses the head of Willow Road, and a
cross marks the spot.
[Illustration: =Edgar Charles Cocker.=]
=COCKMAN, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9045, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COCKRILL, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9255), S.S. 2208, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=COCKS, ALBERT=, Sapper, No. 75, 2nd Signal Coy. (Headquarters
Section), Royal Canadian Engineers, 4th _s._ of James Cocks, of
Bexley Heath, Kent, formerly of Chenies, Builder (who was seven years
with the 36th (now 18th) Middlesex Regt.); _b._ Putney, co.
Surrey, 12 Dec. 1876; educ. Chenies, Rickmansworth, Herts, and was a
Decorator. He joined the R.E. in 1900, and was attached to the 57th
Field Coy. at Chatham, and won the Education (2nd class) Certificate,
but after serving three years retired through ill-health. In 1910
went to Ottawa, Canada. There he joined the Governor-General’s Foot
Guards, but afterwards transferred to the Canadian Engineers, and was
attached to the 3rd Field Coy. When the European War broke out in Aug.
1914, he immediately volunteered for service overseas and joined the
2nd Divisional Signal Royal Canadian Engineers, and obtained the Army
Signalling Certificate. He left for England with the second contingent
in May, 1915, and was stationed at Shorncliffe till Sept. They were
ordered to proceed to France on 8 Sept., and on the 4th of the month
he was given leave to wish his relatives in London good-bye. At 8.30
p.m. the same day he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner
of Parliament Street, Westminster, receiving a fractured skull and
internal injuries. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where he died
after three operations, 21 Sept. 1915. He was buried at Kensal Green
in the Canadian Government part. His commanding officer wrote: “His
work with me was of the very best. He had proved a very valuable man,
the like of whom our Empire could not afford to lose.” He _m._ at
Christ Church, Ottawa, 3 June, 1914, Lillian, formerly of Toronto, dau.
of the late Henry Hodges Weller; _s.p._
[Illustration: =Albert Cocks.=]
=CODD, HARRY CARR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17530, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=CODLING, ALFRED INCH=, A.B., 219051, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=COE, BARNABAS WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1150),
276443, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COE, HERBERT CLYDE=, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 20, H.M.S.
Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=COHEN, GEORGE HUBERT=, B.A., LL.B., Lieut 5th King’s Liverpool
Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Alderman Louis Samuel Cohen, of The
Priory, St. Michael’s Hamlet, Liverpool, J.P., an ex-Lord Mayor of
Liverpool, by his wife, May, dau. of the Hon. Louis Wolfe Levy, M.L.C.,
Sydney, N.S.W.; _b._ Liverpool, 26 Jan. 1878; educ. Cheltenham
and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honours B.A.,
LL.B., in 1901. He was called to the Bar in 1903, and practised law
in Liverpool in the Northern Circuit, and was a member of the Inner
Temple. He had always been a keen Volunteer, having been a sergt.
both in the Cadet Corps at Cheltenham College and in the C.V.R.U. at
Cambridge, and was for many years in the Inns of Court O.T.C., and
gained the Long Service medal. On the outbreak of war he was travelling
in Norway, and hastened to England and immediately enlisted in the
Public Schools Battn. of the Middlesex Regt., but within a week he was
given (19 Sept. 1914) a Lieut.’s commission in the 5th Battn. King’s
Liverpool Regt., in which his brother, Stanley, was Major. He went to
France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915;
_unm._ His colonel, J. M. McMaster, wrote: “He died as glorious a
death as any soldier could ever wish for or hope for, gallantly leading
his men in a charge against the enemy’s trenches. It was a difficult
and dangerous task, but he and his men went to the assault in the way
we expect British soldiers to act, without fear or hesitation. We mourn
his loss and respect his memory. His disposition was kindliness itself,
and he had thoroughly endeared himself to us all. We took the German
trench and more than 120 prisoners surrendered to us. Your son lies
buried in all honour near the field of battle at Richebourg L’Avoué.
I am sorry to say that Stanley (his yr. brother, Major, now (1916)
Lieut.-Col. S. Cohen) incurred a wound, which I hope and believe is
only slight, in voluntarily going out in the attempt to reach George
and succour him. Capt. Fairclough, on the same errand of mercy, was
also wounded.”
=COKE, HON. ARTHUR GEORGE=, Lieut., R.N.V.R., Armoured Cars
Division, 2nd _s._ of Thomas William, 3rd Earl of Leicester,
G.C.V.O., C.M.G., by his wife, the Hon. Alice Emily, née White, dau. of
Luke, 2nd Lord Annaly; _b._ London, 6 April, 1882; educ. H.M.S.
Britannia; joined the Navy, 1897, and retired with the rank of Lieut.
after some six years’ service. On the outbreak of the war he obtained
a commission of 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd County of London Yeomanry
(Westminster Dragoons), 5 Sept. 1914, but was almost immediately
transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, and served with that regt. in
Flanders, including the first Battle of Ypres, until he was transferred
as Lieut. to the Armoured Cars Division, R.N.V.R., in Jan. 1915. He
was killed In action at the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915. He _m._ in
London, 10 May, 1906, Phyllis Hermione (Flaunden, Chesham, Bucks), only
dau. of Francis Saxham E. Drury, of Pont Street, London, and had a son
and dau.: Anthony Lovel, _b._ 14 Sept. 1909; and Deana Muriel,
_b._ 7 Nov. 1907.
=COKE, FREDERICK=, A.B., 239092, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action
in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.
=COKER, CADWALLADER JOHN=, Lieut., 1st Welsh Regt., yr. _s._
of the late James Gould Coker, by his wife, Florence Emily (The Grove,
Mayfield Sussex), 2nd dau. of Cotterill Scholefield; _b._ Somerset
Place, Bath, 11 May, 1892; educ. Wellington College and Oriel College,
Oxford; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Welsh Regt. 15 Sept.
1914. He was promoted Tempy. Lieut. 14 Jan. 1915, and Lieut. 1 Feb.
1915; went to the Front, 5 March following, and was killed in action
in the trenches at St. Eloi by a German sniper, 22 June, 1915, being
buried in a military cemetery near Dickebusch; _unm._ He had
previously been wounded at Hooge, 24 May, and the Medical Officer in
writing of this said: “Your son was slightly wounded on Whit Monday
in a street which was heavily shelled by the enemy. About 40 officers
and men were hit in a short time. Mr. Coker refused all attention
until the others were seen to, helped to carry and dress them, and
set a magnificent example to the rest of the wounded by his pluck and
coolness. It hardly struck me at the time, it was so entirely what
one would have expected of him. He was a fine type of officer and
gentleman.” At Wellington Lieut. Coker was a college prefect, in the
cricket eleven and a gymnasium officer, and was a Sergt. in the O.T.C.,
which rank he also held in the O.T.C. at Oxford. He played cricket,
hockey and football for his college at the latter place, and was in the
shooting team. He was a member of Vincents, Authentics and Cryptics.
Had he lived one day longer he would have obtained his temporary
captaincy. His commanding officer wrote of him: “We were very sorry to
lose your son, who was always most gallant and very popular.”
[Illustration: =Cadwallader J. Coker.=]
=COKER, HORACE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7715), S.S. 103095,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COLBOURNE, EDWARD JAMES=, Private, No. 12/1594, 16th Auckland
Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, elder _s._ of Robert
James Colbourne, of 7, Clarendon Crescent, Leamington Spa, by his
wife, Emily Florence; _b._ 8 Jan. 1892; educ. at Stanley House,
Margate, and Solihull Grammar School; went to New Zealand in Dec. 1911;
enlisted in the 16th Auckland Infantry, Nov. 1914; left on 13 Feb. with
the third reinforcements, and was killed in Gallipoli on 8 May, 1915;
_unm._
[Illustration: =Edward James Colbourne.=]
=COLBOURNE, ERIC KRABBÉ=, M.C., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Royal Berkshire
Regt., 3rd _s._ of Louis Colbourne, of Beckenham, Kent, M.D., by
his wife, Henrietta Leonora, dau. of Charles Brehmer Krabbé; _b._
Buenos Ayres, 25 June, 1888; educ. Berkhamsted School; went to British
Columbia in 1907 and settled in Victoria, but after the outbreak of
war came home and was given a commission in the 3rd Berkshires, 19
Jan. 1915. He died at Choques, 27 June, 1915, of wounds received in
action, and was buried in the military cemetery there. He was awarded
the Military Cross [London Gazette, 24 July, 1915] for “conspicuous
gallantry and devotion to duty at Cuinchy on the early morning of 22
June, 1915.” The Germans, following a gas attack, exploded a mine in
front of one of our own in which was a Sergt. and about eight of our
men, but owing to the gallant efforts of 2nd Lieut. Colbourne, another
officer and a few men, who repeatedly went down among the fumes, all
the men were rescued, although the rescuers suffered considerably.
Lieut. Colbourne _m._ at Victoria, British Columbia, 31 Dec. 1912,
Florence Marion, only dau. of George Gillespie, of Victoria, British
Columbia; _s.p._
[Illustration: =Eric Krabbé Colbourne.=]
=COLE, ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2732), S.S. 58, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=COLE, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3834), 198991, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=COLE, FREDERICK GEORGE PARKER=, E.R.A., 3rd Class, 272386, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=COLE, FREDERICK THOMAS=, Private, No. 61489, 3rd Battn.
(Canterbury Infantry), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th _s._
of Thomas Cole, of Butcombe Farm, Blagdon, Bristol, Farmer, by his
wife, Anna, dau. of Benjamin Warford; _b._ Stock Farm, Langford,
Bristol, co. Somerset, 29 Nov. 1881; educ. at Churchill Public School;
was a farmer; left England for New Zealand, 25 April, 1913; volunteered
on the outbreak of war and enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary
Force in Nov. 1914; left for Egypt with the third reinforcements and
was in action at Cape Helles and Anzac Cove from 12 May to 4 June,
1915. On the latter date he was one of a party of volunteers sent to
clear and hold part of a Turkish trench at Quinn’s Post, and was among
those killed in the attempt. He was _unm._
=COLE, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9802), 213861, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COLE, GEORGE HENRY=, Corpl., No. 8152, Signalling Section,
1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Alma Cole, of
Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of
Joseph King; _b._ Sutton, Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, 12 Sept. 1886;
educ. Bramford Road Board School, Ipswich; enlisted 14 Dec. 1904, and
was killed in action at Hill 60, 16 Feb. 1915; buried at R.E. Farm,
Wulverghem; _unm._
=COLE, SIDNEY LIONEL FLINN=, Assistant Paymaster, Royal Naval
Reserve, only child of William George Cole, Chief Constructor (Royal
Corps of Naval Constructors) H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, and late of
H.M. Dockyard, Gibraltar, by his wife, Emma Elizabeth, dau. of John
Robert Flinn; _b._ Sheerness, co. Kent, 14 July, 1888; and was
educ. Portsmouth Grammar School, and Oliver’s Mile End House School,
Portsmouth. He entered the services of the Capital and Counties Bank,
Ltd., at Newton Abbot, Devon, in Feb. 1906, and afterwards served at
Ashburton, Haslemere, and Andover, from whence, at the outbreak of
war, he joined the Navy for the period of the war, 5 Nov. 1914. He
first served on H.M.S. Duke of Albany, and afterwards in the mine-layer
H.M.S. Princess Irene, and was lost when that ship was blown up in
Sheerness Harbour, 27 May, 1915. With the exception of a stoker, every
officer and man, to the number of 280, including 78 Dockyard workmen
from Sheerness Dockyard, were lost. Cole was the only officer whose
body was (9 June) recovered, and it was interred in the Isle of Sheppey
Cemetery with Naval honours on 12 June, preparatory to which a short
service was held in the Royal Dockyard Chapel at Sheerness, where 27
years before he had been christened. He was _unm._
[Illustration: =Sidney Lionel Flinn Cole.=]
=COLE, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Private, No. 4940, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Frederick Cole, of Long Newton, Tetbury, co.
Gloucester, Labourer, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of Frederick Long,
of Newton, near Tetbury; _b._ Bagpath, co. Gloucester, 21 March,
1880; educ. Cam, near Dursley; enlisted at Devizes, 30 Dec. 1902;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died
from shell wounds in left thigh, received in action, 27 Sept. 1914,
being buried in Veill Arcy Cemetery. He _m._ at Tetbury, 28 Aug.
1912, Elizabeth Emily (New Church Street, Tetbury), dau. of William
Baker, of Tetbury, and had a dau., Elizabeth Mary Florence, _b._ 3
Oct. 1912.
[Illustration: =William Charles Cole.=]
=COLEMAN, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21846, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=COLEMAN, GEORGE MANSFIELD=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3356A, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COLEMAN, JOHN MORRIS=, Private, No. 9832, 1st Battn. East Kent
Regt. (The Buffs), _s._ of James Coleman, of 10, Erith Street,
Dover; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., died at
Braisne 24 Sept. 1914, from wounds received in action.
=COLEMAN, SAMUEL GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4380),
S.S. 103358, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the
coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=COLEMAN, THOMAS BARNES=, Private, No. 561, No. 1 Coy., 14th
Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of Frank
Coleman, of Marsh Green, Brighstone, Isle of Wight, Labourer, by his
wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Barnes; _b._ Marsh Green, 17 July,
1888; educ. National School, Brighstone; emigrated to Victoria in 1913,
joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of
war, and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge, north of Anzac Cove,
Gallipoli, between 26 and 28 Aug. 1915; _unm._
=COLEMAN, WILLIAM=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 9090, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=COLEMAN, WILLIAM ALBERT=, Rifleman, No. 7512, 1st Battn. King’s
Royal Rifles, only _s._ of Albert William Coleman, of Ipswich,
Builder, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas Whitmore; _b._
Ipswich, 4 May, 1886; educ. there; enlisted 10 May, 1906; went to
France 20 Aug. 1914; was taken a prisoner at Ypres, 4 Nov. 1914, and
_d._ of fever at the prisoners’ camp, Gustrow, Mecklenburg, 24
Jan. 1915. He _m._ at St. Luke’s Church, South Norwood, 18 Oct.
1913, Laura Harriet (19, Southcote Road, South Norwood), dau. of James
Holdstock and had a dau., Evelyn Laura, _b._ 28 July, 1914.
[Illustration: =William A. Coleman.=]
=COLENUTT, ALBERT EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14944 (Ports.),
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COLES, CHARLES GEORGE=, Private, No. 1946, E. Coy., 4th Battn.
Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of James Coles, formerly of Hadlow,
Kent, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Sewell; _b._
Deptford, London, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Lucas Street Board School there;
joined the Volunteer Force in 1903, and was later transferred to the
Territorials. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 4th Battn.
Suffolk Regt., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March,
1915. Private Coles _m._ at Leiston, Suffolk, 4 March, 1911,
Beatrice Mary (30, Paradise Place, Leiston, Suffolk), dau. of Thomas
Chilvers, and had one son, Charles James Thomas, _b._ 11 Aug. 1911.
[Illustration: =Charles George Coles.=]