![A sepia-tinted old photograph of a little boy in a suit with a bucket and spade](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/05/fullsizeoutput_46e0.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
My grandfather John Ellery Tizard on holiday in Bridgend, Wales, in about 1884.
![Black and white photograph of a teenage boy in navy uniform](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/05/fullsizeoutput_40c9.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
John joined the Royal Navy when he was just 18 years old.
![Black and white photograph of four men in Royal Navy uniform, each with a dog](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/05/fullsizeoutput_498d-scaled.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
John joined the HMS Good Hope. Here he is (smoking a pipe) with some of the ship's crew and their dogs!
![Black and white photograph of the crew of a navy ship](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/05/fullsizeoutput_338f.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
John (centre of the back row, smoking a pipe again) with the officers of HMS Good Hope, October 1914. On 1 November 1914, the ship was sunk with the loss of all hands at the Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile.
![A scroll](https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/52/2024/05/fullsizeoutput_3e7c-scaled.jpeg?webp=1&w=1200)
John's next of kin received this scroll after the war ended.