Name
Jemima Coster
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/12/1915
44
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Stewardess
Mercantile Marine
S.S. "Persia" (Greenock)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Chorleywood memorials
Pre War
Born in 1870 in Catletts Farm, Chorleywood and was baptised on 3 Jul 1870 in Chorleywood daughter of George and Kezia (Statham) Coster. She lived at 115 Monica Road, East Ham and was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Died at sea off Crete when the S.S. Persia, a P. and O. liner, was torpedoed by submarine U-38 without warning in contravention of the German Navy’s own rules against sinking of merchant ships. Jemima had previously survived the sinking of the S.S. Delhi in 1911 off Morocco along with the Duke of Fife and the Princess Royal on whom she was in attendance.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
