Lives of the First World War

The 26 men in this community were members of the crew of HMS Good Hope who all died when it was sunk, with no survivors, at the Battle of Coronel, off the Pacific Coast of Chile, on 1 November 1914. They are all Stokers, have no Royal Navy service numbers and are commemorated on a Memorial in Mumbai, India, although it is doubtful if any were from that part of the world. They are also all commemorated on the war memorial in Derek Walcott Square, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Some were certainly West Indian because their names were listed in correspondence from the Governor of St Lucia to the Admiralty, requesting reimbursement of money paid to their dependants. Since the "Good Hope" visited the West Indies on the way to the South Atlantic, it is likely that they were all recruited there. Some records describe them as 'Native' so they were probably black or of mixed race. For some, the only record that I've been able to find is that on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database.

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