In 1890, the Royal Navy Depot in Chatham was founded. HINE, John F, Engine Room Artificer 3c, MX 93441, died . Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. HMS Chatham - April 1915 to February 1916, East Indies Station (including East Africa campaign), Mediterranean (including Aegean, Dardanelles); October 1920 to May 1924, New Zealand Station . Please select an option below to continue. The droning of its engine, however, was distinctly heard. As ARABIS says a list of ships with dates would help, if there is the name of a ship with another name after it in brackets that is his Depot ship and the ship he actually served on. dailyinfo[1]=' Staff Nurse Edith Mary CAMMACK Associate of the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class 4th Southern Gen. Hos. Ordinary Seaman Frederick W. Turpin went to the scene to help with the wounded. Royal Navy 304620 Stoker, 2nd Class HMS Acheron. HMS CERES was the Supply and Secretariat training at Wetherby, Yorkshire between 1944 and 1958. The highlight of divisions was of course theRoyal Marine band. This is a list of shore establishments (or "stone frigates") of the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and the free to access part of the website is funded by donations from our visitors. After his brief leave, he returned to England where he was waiting for his orders at the Chatham Naval Barracks on September 3, 1917. G. Mackie, June 2018. No expert but wasn't the pembroke a royal navy training ship moored in the estuary. Middlesex Regiment who died 17/02/1917 REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT France '
Above: Frederick Isaac Diver, and the cemetery at Thetford where he is buried. There must have been about 300 girls, like myself, instructed to report to the barracks at HMS Pembroke, Mill Hill, North London for a two week introductory course. Launched in 1944, HMS Cavalier is a CA-class destroyer. St George and Blenheim but he was on the Undaunted on the first day of the war. The Western Front Association is a registered charity in the United Kingdom, no 298365. Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust.
They were WARRIOR [at Blackwall], BLACK PRINCE [at Glasgow]; DEFENCE [at Jarrow] and RESISTANCE [at Millwall]. The names of over 8,000 men of the Chatham Division who lost their lives during the First World War and for whom there is no known grave are commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial which stands above the Historic Dockyard on the Great Lines. ST. GEORGE; 1892 Cruiser converted to Depot Ship for Destroyers 1909. Thomas Ginn, born February 1895, was also from Fogo Island, Newfoundland. The person may not have physically been at the location of the base during the dates shown on records, they are often at another port or in transit on a ship to which they were not assigned as crew.
He joined up because it was the right thing to do and because he was alone. [2] At the beginning of World War One Chatham was one of three manning ports' (including Porstmouth and Plymouth) of the Royal Navy with ships, manned and allocated to the Chatham Division, a role that continued until the advent of central manning in 1956. Chatham division ships fought at Jutland in May 1916 and Chatham division men took part in the Zeebrugge Raid in April 1918. Old timers had tattoos and wore light colour collars. It is now almost certain that Walter was involved with Torpedoes. It trained all comers including Wrens, CS Men [Continuous Service], SS Men [Short Service], NS Men [National Service] and HO Men [Hostilities Only]. The hand writing on the one page of his service record is a challenge to read, but it is clear that Bob was based at HMS Pembroke, then HMS Actaeon (another shore base) and then back to Pembroke. They doubled away behind the Drill Shed and had their own church service, or so I believe. A pictorial history showing the evolution of Medways former naval base is going on display. At the beginning of the First World War Chatham was one the Royal Navys three manning ports together with Plymouth and Portsmouth - manned by men allocated to the Chatham Division, a role that was to continue until the advent of central manning in 1956. Passing through the former HMS Pembroke, Chatham's Edwardian naval barracks (now the Medway Campus of the Universities of Greenwich and Kent), the trail connects the Dockyard with eighteenth century defences and their Field of Fire - now open parkland. I am just looking for Pictures of the ships and his fellows if anyone has any available please? Designed by Henry Pilkington, construction of the Royal Naval Barracks began in 1897 and was completed by December 1902. Officers and the surviving ratings who were able to, tore at the rubble with their bare hands in their efforts to find those lost beneath the debris of the shattered Drill Hall. After camp at Wales I applied to join the Navy going to Glasgow and passing maths and English and medical tests and was detailed to join HMS Pembroke (Chatham Barracks) where after further. In 1970, all Naval establishments in Chatham were to be combined and known as HM Navy Base, under one officer 'Flag Officer, Medway and Port Admiral'. We also aim to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those who served their countries on all sides, across all theatres and fronts, on land, at sea and in the air and at home, during the Great War. My Grand father was on three of the ships that your GR.Father was on at roughly the same time, Blenheim, Undaunted and the St George. THE VOYAGES OF HMS CHATHAM 1915-1924