The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 : A biographical record of all members of His…
1915. On the latter date he was one of a party of volunteers sent to
clear and hold part of a Turkish trench at Quinn’s Post, and was among
those killed in the attempt. He was _unm._
=COLE, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9802), 213861, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COLE, GEORGE HENRY=, Corpl., No. 8152, Signalling Section,
1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Alma Cole, of
Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of
Joseph King; _b._ Sutton, Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, 12 Sept. 1886;
educ. Bramford Road Board School, Ipswich; enlisted 14 Dec. 1904, and
was killed in action at Hill 60, 16 Feb. 1915; buried at R.E. Farm,
Wulverghem; _unm._
=COLE, SIDNEY LIONEL FLINN=, Assistant Paymaster, Royal Naval
Reserve, only child of William George Cole, Chief Constructor (Royal
Corps of Naval Constructors) H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, and late of
H.M. Dockyard, Gibraltar, by his wife, Emma Elizabeth, dau. of John
Robert Flinn; _b._ Sheerness, co. Kent, 14 July, 1888; and was
educ. Portsmouth Grammar School, and Oliver’s Mile End House School,
Portsmouth. He entered the services of the Capital and Counties Bank,
Ltd., at Newton Abbot, Devon, in Feb. 1906, and afterwards served at
Ashburton, Haslemere, and Andover, from whence, at the outbreak of
war, he joined the Navy for the period of the war, 5 Nov. 1914. He
first served on H.M.S. Duke of Albany, and afterwards in the mine-layer
H.M.S. Princess Irene, and was lost when that ship was blown up in
Sheerness Harbour, 27 May, 1915. With the exception of a stoker, every
officer and man, to the number of 280, including 78 Dockyard workmen
from Sheerness Dockyard, were lost. Cole was the only officer whose
body was (9 June) recovered, and it was interred in the Isle of Sheppey
Cemetery with Naval honours on 12 June, preparatory to which a short
service was held in the Royal Dockyard Chapel at Sheerness, where 27
years before he had been christened. He was _unm._
[Illustration: =Sidney Lionel Flinn Cole.=]
=COLE, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Private, No. 4940, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Frederick Cole, of Long Newton, Tetbury, co.
Gloucester, Labourer, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of Frederick Long,
of Newton, near Tetbury; _b._ Bagpath, co. Gloucester, 21 March,
1880; educ. Cam, near Dursley; enlisted at Devizes, 30 Dec. 1902;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died
from shell wounds in left thigh, received in action, 27 Sept. 1914,
being buried in Veill Arcy Cemetery. He _m._ at Tetbury, 28 Aug.
1912, Elizabeth Emily (New Church Street, Tetbury), dau. of William
Baker, of Tetbury, and had a dau., Elizabeth Mary Florence, _b._ 3
Oct. 1912.
[Illustration: =William Charles Cole.=]
=COLEMAN, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21846, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=COLEMAN, GEORGE MANSFIELD=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3356A, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COLEMAN, JOHN MORRIS=, Private, No. 9832, 1st Battn. East Kent
Regt. (The Buffs), _s._ of James Coleman, of 10, Erith Street,
Dover; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., died at
Braisne 24 Sept. 1914, from wounds received in action.
=COLEMAN, SAMUEL GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4380),
S.S. 103358, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the
coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=COLEMAN, THOMAS BARNES=, Private, No. 561, No. 1 Coy., 14th
Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of Frank
Coleman, of Marsh Green, Brighstone, Isle of Wight, Labourer, by his
wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Barnes; _b._ Marsh Green, 17 July,
1888; educ. National School, Brighstone; emigrated to Victoria in 1913,
joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of
war, and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge, north of Anzac Cove,
Gallipoli, between 26 and 28 Aug. 1915; _unm._
=COLEMAN, WILLIAM=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 9090, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=COLEMAN, WILLIAM ALBERT=, Rifleman, No. 7512, 1st Battn. King’s
Royal Rifles, only _s._ of Albert William Coleman, of Ipswich,
Builder, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas Whitmore; _b._
Ipswich, 4 May, 1886; educ. there; enlisted 10 May, 1906; went to
France 20 Aug. 1914; was taken a prisoner at Ypres, 4 Nov. 1914, and
_d._ of fever at the prisoners’ camp, Gustrow, Mecklenburg, 24
Jan. 1915. He _m._ at St. Luke’s Church, South Norwood, 18 Oct.
1913, Laura Harriet (19, Southcote Road, South Norwood), dau. of James
Holdstock and had a dau., Evelyn Laura, _b._ 28 July, 1914.
[Illustration: =William A. Coleman.=]
=COLENUTT, ALBERT EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14944 (Ports.),
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=COLES, CHARLES GEORGE=, Private, No. 1946, E. Coy., 4th Battn.
Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of James Coles, formerly of Hadlow,
Kent, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Sewell; _b._
Deptford, London, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Lucas Street Board School there;
joined the Volunteer Force in 1903, and was later transferred to the
Territorials. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 4th Battn.
Suffolk Regt., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March,