First Name: | Charles Edwin | Last Name: | KING | |
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Date of Death: | 13/08/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Southfields | |
Rank: | Able Seaman | Unit: | HMS Juno | |
Memorial Site: | Chatham Naval Memorial | |||
Current Information:Age-38 23, Standen Road, Southfields
HMS Juno was a light cruiser which in 1915 was sent to the Persian Gulf as part of a force that attempted to curtail the anti-British activities of the Tangistanis led by Rais Ali Delvari in what is now Iran. On 13th August, 1915, a landing party went ashore and helped to repel an attack on the British positions there, during which Charles King was killed. |
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