1st November 1914, Able Seaman Bertram Alfred Loakes, KIA battle of Coronel aboard HMS Good Hope. Son of Harry and Francis of 28 Somerset Road, Pudsey. The Good Hope was the first ship lost in a surface fleet action by the Royal Navy since The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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