Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 47A GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Education & Career :
Corporal, RMLI, Liu Kun Tao, (1914)
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: HMS Cleopatra |
HMS Cleopatra was part of the force covering a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane raid against the Imperial German Navy airship hangars at Tondern, then in northern Germany, on 24 March 1916 and, during the return journey, sighted the German destroyer G 194 ahead of her. She turned toward G 194 and rammed her, cutting the destroyer in half and sinking her immediately, but the maneuver took Cleopatra across the bows of the light cruiser HMS Undaunted, and the two cruisers collided; Cleopatra returned to base with the force despite the damage she suffered in the two collisions, but Undaunted was so badly damaged that it took her four days to reach port. |
| Action : Naval Campaign |
Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.
Detail :
Information from Ron Childs of Daintree Lodge suggested that John EVERLEIGH was a Sergeant RMLI on HMS Cleopatra and died on 4 Aug 1916 aged 32. He is not listed in CWGC under EVERLEIGH or any obvious variant spelling. HMS Cleopatra was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was part of the Caroline group of the C-class of cruisers. She was laid down in February 1914, launched 14 January 1915 and commissioned into the navy in June 1915. On the outbreak of war she was assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, Harwich Force, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel. On the night of the 23 to the 24th of March 1916 Cleopatra rammed and sunk the German destroyer G 194, but was subsequently damaged in a collision with HMS Undaunted.
On 4 August 1916 Cleopatra struck a mine off the Belgian coast killing 4 RMLI crew and had to be repaired. After repairs, she was assigned to the 7th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet in 1918. She survived the war, but was considered obsolete before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold for scrap on 26 June 1931 to Hughes Bolckow, of Blyth.
John EVELEIGH (sic) is confirmed as a casualty when HMS Cleopatra was mined on 4th August 1916 as recorded in the Royal Navy Roll of Honour.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Daintree No. 2938 E.C. | Hampshire & IOW |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
10th February 1914 | 10th November 1914 | 14th April 1915 |
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley