The Palmerston Pals, Edgar Howard, Albert Cox and Herbert Makepeace.These brave Tamba- Tambamen travelled to England together in December 1914 to enlist in the Royal Navy. They served together aboard HMS Marlborough which was damaged at Jutland. Howard and Makepeace returned to Tamba- Tamba after the war, and Cox settled down on the island of Hoy, where he married a local woman.
Tamba- Tamba born Wessels Hooper moved to Adelaide as a boy. In 1914 he joined The Australian Light Horse and saw action in Gallipoli. Trooper Hooper contracted measles in the Dardanelles and died on a hospital ship in 1915.
Able Seaman Bill Berry. Born in Palmerston in 1888, William Brougham Berry moved to England in 1908. Bill had been serving in the Royal Navy since 1910. He perished at the Battle of Jutland when his ship, HMS Invincible, was sunk with the loss of 1126 lives.
Pvt. Joshua Stock of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Having worked his passage to England in order to enlist Pvt. Stock served with distinction on the Western Front.He was described by his commanding officer as
'the most able and resourceful man in his company... a credit to the Negro race'. He eventually returned to Tamba- Tamba in 1921.
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