Remembered today, with Gratitude.

Private PLY/16293 William George Tuck, Royal Marines, HMS Monmouth (Light Cruiser)

William was born on 27^th May 1895 at 2, Warmhole Cottages, Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire; his Father George a Coal Hauler and Mother Annie had 6 children in all.

William was Killed in Action on 1^st November 1914 aged just 21 years, he is commemorated on The Plymouth Naval Memorial and also remembered on Hawkesbury War Memorial, , Gloucestershire.

Stoker 1^st Class, 308496 Alfred Tuck Royal Navy, HMS Good Hope (Armoured Cruiser)

Alfred was born at 44, Spirthill cottage, Spirthill near Bremhill in Wiltshire on 25^th July 1886 the youngest of 5 children born to Charles Matthew Tuck a Shepherd and his wife Clara Jane. In 1910 when Alfred was 24 he married his sweetheart Bertha Lee.

Alfred was Killed in Action on 1^st November 1914 aged 28 years, he is commemorated on The Portsmouth Naval Memorial.


Battle of Coronel, Chile, 1st November 1914.
The German East Asiatic Squadron under Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee was visiting the Far East, and following some initial operations in the Pacific, decided to return to Germany via Cape Horn. Aware of his presence off the coast of South America, a small British force under Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock sailed into Chilean waters: it consisted of three old cruisers, HMS Good Hope, HMS Glasgow and HMS Monmouth, accompanying them was an armed merchant cruiser, Otranto. Cradock met von Spee's ships off Coronel, Chile. The British were outgunned, and Cradock decided to try and inflict damage on a German squadron a long way from home. HMS Monmouth was sunk, Cradock was killed when HMS Good Hope blew up, he had previously ordered the Otranto to retire, which it did, in the company of the badly damaged HMS Glasgow.

There were no survivors from either HMS Monmouth or HMS Good Hope, amounting to a loss of 1,654 Officers and men. [/i]The German force did not lose a single vessel in the encounter.

William, Alfread and indeed to all 1,654 men of the HMS Monmouth and HMS Good Hope who lost their lives that day,

You are Not Forgotten

Stephen, as always thank you for posting information about who you are asking us to remember and for the summay of the Battle of Coronel.

Very best regards,

Ian.

May they all forever rest in peace.

Thank you
Stephen

Remembering

Thank you for the freedom that I enjoy.

RIP

Scottie.

Thank you for alerting me to an action/area that I was unaware of!

Remembering all those who fought and died with Kit Cradock on that fateful day.

On arrival at Valparaiso after the battle, von Spee was presented with flowers, which he is said to have remarked would look well on his grave. He knew that Cradock's gallant sacrifice would be swiftly avenged, and so it was.

Thanks for the reminder.

One of the men I am currently researching was the Chief Surgeon on H.M.S. Monmouth, a graduate of Liverpool University.

May they all rest in peace.

Bruce

remembered today, Sunday, 1st November
Private PLY/16293 William George Tuck, Royal Marines, HMS Monmouth (Light Cruiser) and Stoker 1st Class, 308496 Alfred Tuck Royal Navy, HMS Good Hope (Armoured Cruiser)
And all who fought, and fell with them, on Sunday, 1st November 1914 at the Battle of Coronel

This link will take you to the Naval History Net http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1914-11Nov2.htm and a full Casualty List

[for those who wish to read more on this battle, then you may want to down-load, in pdf form, the archive copies of The Naval Review;
Volume 3, 1915, commencing page 159: Action off CORONEL, by an officer of the Glasgow
Volume 3, 1915, commencing page 378: Action off Coronel, and the work of the Glasgow by two officers
Volume 3, 1915, commencing page 398: Coronel, 1st November 1914, Vice Admiral Count Spee's Despatch
Volume 3, 1915, commencing page 402: Coronel – extracts of letters from Count Spee and his son Lieutenant Count Otto Spee
The Naval Review can be found here http://www.naval-review.org]

William George Tuck and Alfred Tuck, and all who fell on Sunday, 1st November 1914, at Coronel,
remembered with respect

Rest in peace William and Alfred.

Gone but not forgotten

Kind regards

Steve

Von Spee had all the advantages, the British ships were outlined by the setting sun, Von Spee`s ship were crack gunners
Craddock knew he did not have a chance but the tradition of the royal Navy.........

best regards John