Rank
Stoker 1St Class
Regiment
Royal Navy
Date of death
1 November 1914
Age of death
22
Address
42 Francis Avenue
Ilford
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Address source
1914 Death Record and 1914 Kelley's Directory.
Local memorial
Cemetery / Memorial
United Kingdom
Biography
Henry Pelham was born on 1st October 1892, the third son of George and Elizabeth Pelham. Henry’s mother died when he was eight.
Henry joined the Navy before 1911 and became a Stoker in the 2nd Engine room of HMS Good Hope, which is where he was at the time of the 1911 census. Henry was killed in the Battle of Coronel, off the coast of Chile, on 1st November 1914. Henry’s body was not recovered but his name appears on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
At the time of Henry’s death, his father George Pelham was living at 42 Francis Avenue, Ilford, according to his Death Record and Kelly’s Directory.
Research by Redbridge Museum
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry.com