THANKS to Maureen Caswell for getting in touch with us after we asked for the relatives of Weymouth’s First World War Navy dead to come forward.
Maureen’s grandad William Christopher Ansell, of Weymouth, died on HMS Good Hope in 1914. The armoured cruiser was sunk by a German squadron in the Battle of Coronel on November 1.
Maureen, of Southill, said: “My granddad was a stoker and my mum was just two years old when he died.
“It’s strange how history seems to repeat itself because my mum lost her dad in the First World War and I lost my dad in the Second World War.”
William Ansell was one of four Weymouth men lost on the Good Hope and 670 lost on the vessel in total.
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