HUGHES, Wallace John

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Petty Officer Stoker
HMS Good Hope - Battlecruiser
Royal Navy

Wallace was born on the 17th of July 1885 in Stroud, Gloucestershire to Wallace & Annie (nee FRADGLEY) HUGHES of 46 Burlington Road, Small Heath in Birmingham. In 1909 at St. Paul’s Church in Barton, he married Emily Mabel MARTIN who remarried after Wallace’s death becoming Emily ELDRIDGE living at 63 Arctic Road in Cowes.

Wallace was a regular sailor, serving aboard HMS Duke of Edinburgh in Gibraltar in 1911. However, while aboard the Good Hope, he was lost, aged 30, with all 926 hands during the Battle of Coronel off the Chilean coast on the 1st of November 1914. Wallace’s body was never recovered from the sea & so he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial together with over 10,000 of his First World War shipmates.

Wallace is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetery

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.