Mrs Edwards Boy’s Found.

On Wednesday afternoon the East Kent Coroner held an inquest at the Royal Oak on the body of a little boy picked up on the shore under Abbott’s Cliff. The clothing found on the body identified by Mrs Edwards a passenger on the “Maloja” as one of her two children she lost in the sinking of that vessel. It will be remembered that Mrs Edwards also lost her sister, and only one of her two children were saved.

The evidence taken was as follows - Mrs Edwards whose husband is a sergeant major in the A.O.C. said that she was living at 132 Buckland Avenue Dover and the clothing which had been shown to her, was that which was worn by her son James Victor Edwards aged five years. He was a passenger with her and her other two children on the “Maloja” the P. and O. liner that sunk off Dover on Sunday the 27th 1916. The body was recovered at Dover.
Witness had previously described the clothing found on the body to the police at Dover. Police constable Jenkins said that the clothing shown to the last witness was found on the body. R. S. Corden said that on Monday April 3rd he found the body on the foreshore beneath Abbott’s Cliff between 5 and 6 p.m. It was high and dry.

H. H. Gellert, a naval surgeon said that the body was that of a child between five and six years of age, and although he could not say definitely owing to the condition of the body, it was probably that of a male child.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased James Victor Edwards was drowned in the sinking of the “Maloja.” 

The number who embarked on board the “Maloja” and those known to have been saved are as follows:– 
Passengers. 72 saved – 49 missing. Total = 121.
European Crew. 92 saved - 20 missing. Total = 112.
Native Crew. 137 saved. – 86 missing. Total = 223.