Land - 1908 - Vere Seymour - Grazing, 5030 acres, Kedong River, 5-11-07, Registered 24-7-08

CWGC killed by mine explosion on HMS Coquette, in North Sea on 7 Mar 1916. Son of Alfred Seymour and Jessie Madelaine Seymour, of Folkestone. On Chatham Naval Memorial

Ancestry Casualty List Lt. Vere Seymour, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed when HM torpedo boat destroyer Coquette, of which he was in command, struck a mine off the East Coast and sank, on the 7th inst. He was the son of the late Mr Alfred Seymour of 17 Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone. Before the war he was a captain of the Orient Line. In the earliest stages of hostilities he served on the Campania, an armoured liner, and helped in bringing some of the prisoners from the Emden from Australia. Subsequently he was appointed to the command of the Coquette. He was known to many people in Folkestone, it being his custom to stay with his mother between his voyages.

Masters and Mates certificate 25 Nov 1899