Malacca World War 1 Memorial, Malaysia

Extract from de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18 - Part One - Page 94:

COREN, EDWARD WALKER, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, only s. of the late John William Coren, of Guyscliffe, Gloucester, Solicitor; b. Gloucester 8 Feb. 1893; educ. Cheltenham College, and on leaving there did 12 months’ training at Aldershot with the R.F.A. Special Reserve. He then went to the Malay States, but on the outbreak of war returned, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. In the Special Reserve of the R.F.A., 23 Dec. 1914, and into the Regular Army, 25 May, 1915. He went to the Front in March, and was severely wounded on the night of 14 June, 1915, while out with a party of men laying telephone wires. They had had to take shelter three times owing to the heavy shell fire. Lieut. Coren made a fourth attempt to finish the work, but he and three out of the four men with him were so severely wounded that they died the following day. The fourth man, a driver, was seriously wounded, but survived, He was buried at Ypres unm. His Col. wrote speaking very highly of the work he had done while under his command. Coren was a good all-round athlete and sportsman, At Cheltenham he was a prefect and in the cricket eleven, and was considered a good bowler. He also played football and won the High Jump two years in succession. He was also an exceptionally good horseman.

The Straits Times, 1 May 1915, Page 12
Malaya's Contingent.
THE MEN WHO HAVE ANSWERED THE CALL
List to End of April
We are in receipt from the Governmen of the following lists of men who have gone home from malaya in connection with the war....
EAMES, W.S. Civil Servant, S.S.

Extract from de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18 - Part Five - Page 148:

SCHAFER, JOHN SHARPEY, Acting Commander, Royal Navy, elder s. of Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer, Kt. Bach., LL.I)., F.R.S., of Edinburgh University and Marly Knowe, North Berwick, Co. Haddington, by his wife, Maud, eldest dau. of Adolphus William Dixey; and brother to Liout. T. S. K. Schafer (see Vol. II., page 270); b. Elstree, Co. Hertford, 29 June, 1881; educ. Ascham Rouse, Bournemouth, and R.M.8. Britannia (passing in second on the list); served as Midshipman on H.M.S. Bonaventure, on the China Station, and took part in the operations Consequent on the Boxer Rebellion in 1890 (China Medal); subsequently served as Sub-Lieut. in home waters, and as Lieut. on the Indian Station, where he was engaged in various expeditions connected with the suppression of the slave trade and the illicit importation of arms on the Somaliland coast and in the Persian Gulf; was appointed Naval Assistant in the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty in March, 1907; was placed, at his own request, on the Retired List as Lieut.-Commander in 1912 ; went to Malacea in May of the same year, being engaged in rubber planting; on the outbreak of war rejoined the Navy, being appointed to the Staff of the Admiral in command. of the China Station at Singapore: in Jan. 1915, was appointed to H.M.S. King George, Flagship of the 2nd Battle Squadron; was present in her at the Battle of Jutland 31 May, 1916; promoted Acting Commander and Navigator on the Staff soon after that engagement. He was instrumental in introducing improvements in tactics which have been adopted by the Admiralty; In Nov. 1917, he was selected for special surveying service, in connection with the establishment of the Great Northern Barrage Mine Field between Scotland and Norway, and temporarily appointed to H.M.S. Gaillardia for this purpose, and was lost when that ship was sunk by a mine 22 March, 1918. He m. at St. Mary Abbott s, Kensington, W., 9 Nov. 1907, Ruth, yst. dau. of William Hutchinson, and had two sons: Edward Peter, b. 22 Sept. 1908, and John Michael, b. 18 Oct. 1911.

Note: H.M.S. Gaillardia was an Aubretia Class Convoy Sloop, 1,250 tons, 17 knots, 92 crew and was built with mercantile appearances and used as Q-ship. On 22nd March 1918, in the North Sea, off the Orkney Islands she was carrying out bouying operations in the newly-laid Northern Barrage between Scotland and Norway aimed at interrupting the passage of U-boats into the North Atlantic, when she was blown up and sunk by one of the barrage mines. Although most sources put her loss down to mines, at least one suggests she was torpedoed

Extract from de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18 - Part Four - Page 200:

STRATTON, GEORGE BERNARD, Major, 10th (Service) Battn. The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, s. of the late Thomas Henry Marshall Stratton, by his wife, Kathleen Helen, dau. of Canon Scott; b. New Seaham, co. Durham, 18 Aug. 1896; educ. at Warwick School and Durham University; joined the Indian Civil Service in 1899; was for some years in the Federated Malay States, where he held several appointments, and was District Officer until 28 Dec. 1911, when he became Manager of the Telong Rubber Co.: returned to England on the outbreak of war; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Berkshire Regt. in 1915; attained his majority in Jan. 1916, having transferred to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry In Nov. 1915 ; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 20 June, 1916, and was killed in action at Coxyde 11 Aug. 1917. Buried in Oost Dunkerque Bains British Cemetery. An officer wrote: “Major Stratton always showed the teenest interest in the welfare of the men, and his death will be very keenly felt by all. We can but feebly express to you what it means to us—he had been with us so long, and the blow is so much heavier on that account.” He was mentioned In Despatches by Gen. (now F.M.) Sir Douglas Haig ondon Gazette, 4 Jan. 1917] for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He m. at Southsea, 10 May, 1917, Gladys Dundas, widow of the late Capt. Harkness, and dau. of James Frederick Knowles, and had a son, George Bernard b. 20 Jan. 1918.

The Straits Times, 4 January 1915, Page 7
Temporary Commissions
The following is a list of those to whom his Excellency the Govenor has, on thie authority of the Army Council, offered temporary commissions for the duration of the war in the new service battalions now being raised. The list is cmplete up to the end of December 1914
STRATTON, G.B. Planter