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Underhill, C G


Portsmouth Naval Memorial Memorial

Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Southsea Common

Family memorial at Mont a l'Abbe Cemetery, Jersey
Picture courtesy of Mike & Rosemarie Thomas

Notice of Death appears in Jersey Evening Post of Wednesday 18 November 1914

 


HMS Good Hope

H.M.S. Good Hope

Sunk during the battle of Coronel, 01/11/1914.
Destroyed by shellfire by Scharnhorst

Clarence Gordon Underhill

Leading Seaman Clarence Gordon Underhill
Royal Navy. HMS "Good Hope"
01/11/1914


1914-15 Star

Son of Henry James and Esther Mallet Underhill, of 10 Val Plaisant, St. Helier. His twin brother was also serving in the Gallipoli peninsular at the time of his death. One of two brothers who both fell within a year. Brother of Trooper Richard Mallet Underhill.

Killed in action, aged 28 years


NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Wednesday 18 November 1914

Another Jerseyman Killed in Action. Mr H J Underhill of Victoria Street has received the sad news that his second son Torpedo Instructor C G Underhill was killed on HMS Good Hope in the action in the Pacific. The deceased, who was 28, joined the Navy when he was still under 14 and was a fine sailor. He was over here on a visit to his relatives last Christmas

Commemorated on family memorial in Mont a l'Abbe Cemetery, Jersey
on St Paul's School Memorial, Jersey
and on St Paul's Church Memorial, Jersey