Captain Charles Lemon Frazer Daniell RNR :- Grave number 1386, Sec

Charles Daniell was born in 1824 at Probus, Cornwall , one of a set of triplets. He went to sea at the age of fourteen, with Messers R Green of Blackwall, they also had a shipyard which built ships for the Royal Navy & The East India Company. By 1859 he had attained the rank of Captain and during the taking of the Taku Forts, in The Second China War 1857 - 1860, he had command of the “ Walmer Castle “, she was one of 173 British vessels and 33 French that were assembled for this action. The Taku Forts were taken on the 21^st August 1860, five VCs were awarded for this action. Captain Daniell then went on to command the tea clipper “ Shannon “. He retired from the sea sometime between 1869 - 1871, for a quiet country life, what brought him to Margate was the ill health of his daughter Harriet, it was thought the Margate air would help her, she passed away on the 13^th May 1883, aged 14. Captain Daniell passed away on the 21^st June 1899 aged 75, at No 11 Lancaster Place, Margate ( now No 41 Eastern Esplanade ), this address is just a short distance from where Captain Killick lived, it is certain that they would have known each other, both being clipper ship captains. Captain Daniell served as a JP for Cornwall .

Leading Air Mechanic Ernest Rawson & Flight Sub - Lieutenant Rowland Birks :- Grave numbers ( Rawson ) 11307 - ( Birks ) 11308, Section XXXI.

On the 13^th March 1917 Birks and Rawson took off for a local flight and firing practice in Short Seaplane 9058, from RNAS Westgate. Whilst flying 1 mile off of Cliftonville the seaplane was seen to plummet into the sea, motor launch ML 123 was quickly on the scene but both airmen were found to be dead. Normally the observer would have been an WT operator, but on this occasion he was an armourer.

The first seaplanes to arrive at RNAS Westgate landed on the 15^th June 1914, when three aircraft were despatched from the Isle of Grain to observe a fleet firing exercise in the Thames Estuary, they left on the 18^th June 1914. On the 28^th July 1914 land was requisitioned to establish the base, which was sited in St Mildreds Bay, personnel began to arrive the following day. On the 2^nd August 1914 Flight Commander J T Babington arrived in Short Seaplane No 120, to take command. At midnight on the 4^th August 1914 war was declared. On the 17^th January 1915 land on the cliff top to the East was requisitioned, to establish a base for land based planes. RNAS Westgate was to lose eleven servicemen during World War One.  

Flight Sub - Lieutenant Reginald Lord :- Grave number 10524, Section XXXV.  

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On the night of 9^th August 1915 five Zeppelins approached the English coast, their intention was to mount the first squadron raid on London . The squadron lost contact with each other and became spread over a wide area, in poor visibility. Three of the five were sighted over the Thames Estuary, with L12 being off Westgate at 2248hrs. With others, Flight Sub - Lieutenant Reginald Lord took off, in worsening weather conditions, to intercept L12, but none of the pilots were able to make contact. The Admiralty communiqué’ covering the raid reported :-

“ The night was extremely dark, accompanied by thick fog in places, which rendered night flying by aeroplanes very difficult and it is regretted that Flight Sub - Lieutenant Lord, who was one of the pilots sent up to engage the enemy, was killed on landing in the dark “.

Flight Sub - Lieutenant Lord was the first of RNAS Westgate’s losses. He was buried on the 12^th August, aged 23.His home town was Newcastle Upon Tyne .

Madame De Brocke :- Grave number 5874, Section X.

On the 7^th June 1915 the 1886 ton Belgian steamer “ Menapier “ was on passage Algiers to Middlesbrough, with a cargo of iron ore, whilst in position 51 degrees 28.08 minutes N, 001 degrees 34.21 minutes E, approximately two miles East of the position where the Tongue Lightvessel used to be anchored, a torpedo struck her, fired by the German submarine UB 10, her skipper being Otto Steinbeck. Madame De Brocke, the wife of the Master, was picked up by a Royal Navy vessel where resuscitation attempts were made, unsuccessfully. Survivors stated that the “ Menapier “ went down in thirty seconds, giving no time to launch the lifeboats. One report states that there was a crew of 25, with only 8 survivors, another states that 16 were lost. Amongst those lost, apart from Madame De Brocke, were Captain De  Brocke, their daughter and the British pilot Reynolds Hamilton Kitson, of Cheltenham , aged 35. The body of Madame De Brocke was the only one found, she was buried in an unmarked grave, with another, unrelated female, Ida Caroline Maas, who had died in June 1899. A cross has since been erected over her grave, supplied by The Friends of Margate Cemetery Trust.  -  Continued - Previous