Newly identified from records - Able Seaman (Bertram) Alfred Loakes, HMS Good Hope

Able Seaman (Bertram) Alfred Loakes, (RFR/PO/B/3610). H.M.S. "Good Hope." Son of Harry and Francis of 28 Somerset Road, Pudsey. Killed-in-Action Sunday 1st November 1914 aged 26. 
HMS Good Hope, the battle of Coronel. 
This 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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