St. Peter and St. Paul were the first of the First World War windows to be ordered from Brooks,Robinson & Co. by the Reverend Hudson -St. Paul on 20 October 1925 and St. Peter in early December 1925.
Thomas Wyburn Biddlecombe (1880-1917) joined the Royal Australian Navy as a Sub-Lieutenant in July 1913. At the outbreak of the First World War, Biddlecomble was captain of HMAS Pioneer in East Africa and was attached to the Royal Navy in England in 1916 as Acting Commander. While in command of HMS Q27 and engaged in a sea battle with a German submarine, he was killed in action, the first RAN Officer to be killed while in command of his ship during the First World War. He was remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, England.
William HF.Warren DSO, RAN, ( -1918), was appointed to the newly inaugurated Australian Navy on 1 December 1908. He began his naval carreer as a 14-year-old cadet on HMS Conway and served in the P&O fleet,then theRoyal Naval Reserve. From June 1911, he was captain of HMAS Protector and later transferred to HMAS Parramattain the destroyer flotilla, under Commander Hyde, who is also commemorated in the Chapel. After the commencement of war he served with distinction in the Rabaul expedition and then on patrol in Australian coastal waters. He took charge of the flotilla in April 1917 until his untimely death from accidental drowning, aged 40 years.
References & Acknowledgements
AWM P01585.001; AWM IDRL/0120; Sydney Morning Herald, 27 April 1918, p.9.
With thanks to HMAS Cerberus Museum curator Toni Munday
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