On 27 Feb 1942 Allied warships intercepted 18 Japanese vessels in the Java Sea. During the eight-hour battle the British cruiser HMS ‘Exeter’ was badly damaged and limped to port.
Fourteen of her crew had been killed when a Japanese shell penetrated one of the ship's gun mounts, killing 30-year-old Royal Marine Harry Cox - a cab driver’s son from Torquay, Devon - and two other marines, before detonating in the aft boiler room killing 11 more sailors, including 20-year-old Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald BEASLEY, a tool maker’s son from Birmingham.
They were buried in the local cemetery and after the war they were re-interred in the Jakarta War Cemetery.
14 lost----
Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald BEASLEY,
Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald William Henry ALLSOPP,
Stoker 1st Class William George BOWEN,
Petty Officer Stoker Thomas Seth BRAY,
Stoker 1st Class Clement Wilfred COLLINS,
Stoker 1st Class Frederick COPPERTHWAITE,
Marine Harry COX,
Stoker 2nd Class George Edward JAMES,
Stoker 1st Class James KAY,
Corporal William LAMB,
Leading Stoker Stanley Lewis MORGAN,
Chief Stoker Clifford MULDOON,
Marine Albert Percy SPICE and
Ordinary Seaman Leslie George UPTON.
Military Service-
Rank: Stoker 2nd Class
Service Number: P/KX/30578
Age: 29
Service: Royal Navy
Division: H.M.S. ‘Exeter’
Son of Albert Edward and Ellen James.
Fourteen of her crew had been killed when a Japanese shell penetrated one of the ship's gun mounts, killing 30-year-old Royal Marine Harry Cox - a cab driver’s son from Torquay, Devon - and two other marines, before detonating in the aft boiler room killing 11 more sailors, including 20-year-old Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald BEASLEY, a tool maker’s son from Birmingham.
They were buried in the local cemetery and after the war they were re-interred in the Jakarta War Cemetery.
14 lost----
Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald BEASLEY,
Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald William Henry ALLSOPP,
Stoker 1st Class William George BOWEN,
Petty Officer Stoker Thomas Seth BRAY,
Stoker 1st Class Clement Wilfred COLLINS,
Stoker 1st Class Frederick COPPERTHWAITE,
Marine Harry COX,
Stoker 2nd Class George Edward JAMES,
Stoker 1st Class James KAY,
Corporal William LAMB,
Leading Stoker Stanley Lewis MORGAN,
Chief Stoker Clifford MULDOON,
Marine Albert Percy SPICE and
Ordinary Seaman Leslie George UPTON.
Military Service-
Rank: Stoker 2nd Class
Service Number: P/KX/30578
Age: 29
Service: Royal Navy
Division: H.M.S. ‘Exeter’
Son of Albert Edward and Ellen James.
On 27 Feb 1942 Allied warships intercepted 18 Japanese vessels in the Java Sea. During the eight-hour battle the British cruiser HMS ‘Exeter’ was badly damaged and limped to port.
Fourteen of her crew had been killed when a Japanese shell penetrated one of the ship's gun mounts, killing 30-year-old Royal Marine Harry Cox - a cab driver’s son from Torquay, Devon - and two other marines, before detonating in the aft boiler room killing 11 more sailors, including 20-year-old Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald BEASLEY, a tool maker’s son from Birmingham.
They were buried in the local cemetery and after the war they were re-interred in the Jakarta War Cemetery.
14 lost----
Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald BEASLEY,
Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald William Henry ALLSOPP,
Stoker 1st Class William George BOWEN,
Petty Officer Stoker Thomas Seth BRAY,
Stoker 1st Class Clement Wilfred COLLINS,
Stoker 1st Class Frederick COPPERTHWAITE,
Marine Harry COX,
Stoker 2nd Class George Edward JAMES,
Stoker 1st Class James KAY,
Corporal William LAMB,
Leading Stoker Stanley Lewis MORGAN,
Chief Stoker Clifford MULDOON,
Marine Albert Percy SPICE and
Ordinary Seaman Leslie George UPTON.
Military Service-
Rank: Stoker 2nd Class
Service Number: P/KX/30578
Age: 29
Service: Royal Navy
Division: H.M.S. ‘Exeter’
Son of Albert Edward and Ellen James.
Fourteen of her crew had been killed when a Japanese shell penetrated one of the ship's gun mounts, killing 30-year-old Royal Marine Harry Cox - a cab driver’s son from Torquay, Devon - and two other marines, before detonating in the aft boiler room killing 11 more sailors, including 20-year-old Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald BEASLEY, a tool maker’s son from Birmingham.
They were buried in the local cemetery and after the war they were re-interred in the Jakarta War Cemetery.
14 lost----
Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald BEASLEY,
Engine Room Artificer 5th Class Ronald William Henry ALLSOPP,
Stoker 1st Class William George BOWEN,
Petty Officer Stoker Thomas Seth BRAY,
Stoker 1st Class Clement Wilfred COLLINS,
Stoker 1st Class Frederick COPPERTHWAITE,
Marine Harry COX,
Stoker 2nd Class George Edward JAMES,
Stoker 1st Class James KAY,
Corporal William LAMB,
Leading Stoker Stanley Lewis MORGAN,
Chief Stoker Clifford MULDOON,
Marine Albert Percy SPICE and
Ordinary Seaman Leslie George UPTON.
Military Service-
Rank: Stoker 2nd Class
Service Number: P/KX/30578
Age: 29
Service: Royal Navy
Division: H.M.S. ‘Exeter’
Son of Albert Edward and Ellen James.
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