The Reverend Evan Gabriel Burrough completed his education at St. John's College, Oxford, took Holy Orders in 1908 and was the Vicar of Ripley by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. Subsequently appointed an Acting Chaplain, R.N., he served from March 1917 in the Hospital Ship China and from September 1918 in the Battleship H.M.S. Conqueror. After the War he served as Curate of St. Mark's, Farnborough between 1919-24, but in 1927 left for Africa as a Missionary, subsequently acting as Commissary of British Guiana until 1936, and again from 1944. He was latterly the Chaplain of Oxford Eye Hospital.

The Reverend Francis Edward Sutcliffe completed his education at Keble College, Oxford, took Holy Orders in 1903 and was Curate of Mildenhall, Suffolk and a Vicar for the Diocese of Ely prior to joining the Royal Navy as a Chaplain in August 1906. Having enjoyed seagoing experience in a number of Cruisers, he was appointed to the Battleship H.M.S. St. Vincent in January 1913 and served in her at Jutland. In July 1916 he was transferred to the Malta Shore Establishment Egmont and finished his career with an appointment at the R.N. Hospital at Great Yarmouth. Sutcliffe was latterly Rector of Byford and Mansel Gamage in Herefordshire and died in July 1933.