Rear Admiral Christopher George Francis Maurice Craddock, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the most Honourable Order of Bath. who gallanty upholding the high tradition of the British Navy, led his squadron against an overwhelming force of the enemy off Coronel, on the coast of Chile and fell gloriously in action on All Saints day 1914. This monument is erected by his grateful countrymen. He served on H.M.S. Good Hope and died at sea on the 1st November 1914 aged 52
He was the 4th son of Christopher Cradock of Hartforth, Richmond Yorkshire. Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire
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