WHEATLEY Albert

  • First Name(s):
    Albert 
  • Surname:
    WHEATLEY
  • Service Number:
    SS103386
  • Rank:

    Stoker 1st Class

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Navy
  • Naval Service:
    Royal Navy
  • Unit:
    (RFR/PO/B/4402)
  • Ship:
    HMS Good Hope
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    1st November 1914
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, England, Panel 5.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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WHEATLEY Albert Is Named On These Memorials

Hallow School
Hallow St Philip and St James’s Church
Worcester Guildhall
Worcester St Clements Church

Further Information About WHEATLEY Albert

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for navy casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

HMS Good Hope was a Drake Class Armoured Cruiser and along with other ships in this class was one of the fastest ships in the world at that time.  She became the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock in his South American Squadron in August 1914. On 1st November 1914 off the coast of Chile the British ships encountered a number of German ships under the command of Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian Von Spee.  The ensuing Battle of Coronel resulted in the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth. There were no survivors from either ship.

A photograph of First Class Stoker Albert Wheatley of Hallow can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 12th December 1914, available at Worcestershire Archives.

Albert Wheatley has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Portsmouth Naval Memorial Memorial.

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