A lovely little Gosling in a field of Daisies, I was lucky enough to get really close to these, the parents for a change didn't seem bothered, they were more concerned with other Canada Geese lurking in the back ground.

 

I must say it was a perfect day, the temperature was about right, a very slight breeze and beautiful blue skies, I was outside from 9am-7:30pm, absolutely knackered now, so hoping to sleep well and get up even earlier for tomorrow :o)

 

Hope everyone has a great Bank Holiday :o)

Finally made it out and used my camera, I found this wonderful Caprainea marginata on a fallen leaf, I find these Collembola fascinating and this species seems very cooperative and will happily stay put and even when they do decide to take a stroll they are fairly slow. It was really nice to photograph one on some greenery, it really adds a welcome splash of colour. It appears that they darken as they mature, this one I think is a fairly mature individual at about 1.4mm in length :o)

 

At least the weather behaved today, although very gusty at times, I saw my first Ducklings and Goslings today, may just post a few images over the next few days.

 

Hope everyone has a great week

 

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OK could not wait, cute Gosling alert and if this image doesn't shout "SPRING IS HERE" then I don't know what to do, just love watching these guys exploring their environment and what a stunning environment a field of Daisies, lovely.

 

I think I completely missed these shots last year, was too busy with an early Damselfly emergence, not seen any yet, really hoping that this is the week, I may well venture along a stretch of the Grantham Canal, a good site for Variable & Large Red Damsels, also good for Hairy Dragonflies, will see what the forecasts say :o)

 

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Spanish postcard by CyA, no. 22. Photo: Warner Bros. James Garner in the TV series Maverick (1957-1960).

 

James Garner (1928-2014) was an American film and television actor. He was the star of such popular TV series as the Western show Maverick (1957-1960) and the private detective show The Rockford Files (1974-1980). Garner also appeared in over 50 feature films during his long career, including The Great Escape (1963) with Steve McQueen, Victor/Victoria (1982) with Julie Andrews, and Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys (2000).

 

James Garner was born James Scott Bumgarner in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1928. He was the youngest of the three sons of Weldon Warren Bumgarner and Mildred Meek. He was orphaned at the age of four by the death of his mother. Thereafter he and his brothers lived initially with their grandmother. After his father married his second wife Wilma, the children returned to him. James hated his stepmother who beat all three boys, especially him. He said that his stepmother also punished him by forcing him to wear a dress in public. At the age of 14, an argument with her led to a fight. He knocked her down and choked her to keep her from killing him in retaliation. She left the family and never returned. His father moved to Los Angeles, leaving Garner and his brothers in Norman. Garner's last stepmother was Grace, whom he said he loved and called "Mama Grace", and he felt that she was more of a mother to him than anyone else had been. He began working in the merchant marine when he was 16 years old near the end of World War II. After the war, Garner joined his father in Los Angeles and enrolled at Hollywood High School, where he was voted the most popular student. Garner enlisted in the California Army National Guard, serving his first 7 months in California. Then, during the Korean War, he went to Korea for 14 months as a rifleman in the 5th Regimental Combat Teamparticipated. In the Korean War, he was wounded twice and Garner was awarded the Purple Heart for his wounds. When he returned, he began studying business administration, but then transferred to the Berghof School in New York for acting training. He scraped by with odd jobs until he got a gig in a Broadway production in 1954. That year he also appeared for the first time as an extra in The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk, 1954), the film version of Herman Wouk's stage play starring Humphrey Bogart. After that he took on smaller roles in film and television. He became known to a wider audience with the role of professional gambler Bret Maverick in the Western TV series Maverick (1957-1960). In the cinema he appeared in such films as Sayonara (Joshua Logan, 1957) with Marlon Brando, and the war film Darby's Rangers (William Wellman, 1958). After his acrimonious departure from Warner Bros. in 1960, Garner briefly found himself graylisted by Warner until director William Wyler hired him for a starring role in The Children's Hour (1961) with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, a drama about two teachers surviving scandal started by a student.

 

In the early 1960s, James Garner abruptly became one of the busiest leading men in cinema. In Boys' Night Out (Michael Gordon. 1962) with Kim Novak and Tony Randall, and The Thrill of It All (Norman Jewison, 1963) with Doris Day, he returned to comedy. Garner also starred opposite Day in Move Over, Darling (Michael Gordon, 1963), a remake of the screwball comedy My Favorite Wife (Leo McCarey, 1940) in which Garner portrayed the role originally played by Cary Grant. The remake had begun as Something's Got to Give but was recast and retitled after Marilyn Monroe died and Dean Martin chose to withdraw as a result. Next came the war dramas The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller, 1964) with Julie Andrews, and Roald Dahl's 36 Hours (George Seaton, 1965) with Eva Marie Saint. In the smash hit The Great Escape, Garner played the second lead for the only time during the decade, supporting fellow McQueen among a cast of British and American screen veterans in a story depicting a mass escape from a German prisoner of war camp based on a true story. The film was released in the same month as The Thrill Of It All, giving Garner two films at the box office at the same time. James Garner also starred in Westerns such as Duel at Diablo (Ralph Nelson, 1966) with Sidney Poitier, Hour of the Gun (John Sturges, 1967) with Garner as Wyatt Earp and Jason Robards Jr. as Doc Holliday, and Support Your Local Sheriff! (Burt Kennedy, 1969) with Walter Brennan. He owned his own production company, which financed some of his film projects. Garner was fascinated by car racing. His own racing experience made him ideally qualified to portray a racing driver in Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer, 1966). After this film, he co-owned the racing team "American International Racers" (AIR) for two years and took part in the documentary film The Racing Scene (Andy Sidaris, 1969). His greatest popularity, however, came from playing the title role in the television series The Rockford Files (1974- 1980), for which he received an Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1977. In the 1990s, Rockford episodes were made in feature film format, quoting the style of the 1970s episodes. Garner and Jack Kelly reappeared as Bret and Bart Maverick in a made-for-television film titled The New Maverick (Hy Averback, 1978) written by Juanita Bartlett, and in the series Bret Maverick (1981-1982).

 

James Garner gave one of his greatest comedic performances as the lover of a (fe)male female impersonator in the highly enjoyable musical comedy Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982) starring Julie Andrews. The film, an entertaining remake of the German film Victor und Victoria/Victor and Victoria (Reinhold Schünzel, 1933), was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 1995, it was adapted as a Broadway musical. Garner received an Academy Award nomination for Murphy's Romance (Martin Ritt, 1985) with Sally Field. Garner played Wyatt Earp again in Blake Edwards' Western Sunset (1988), starring Bruce Willis. In the film Maverick (Richard Donner, 1994), Garner took on the role of the marshal who turns out to be Bret's father in the course of the film. Bret Maverick was portrayed in the film by Mel Gibson. Garner's career and popularity continued through another decade in films such as Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood, 2000) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland, the animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, 2001) (voice work) with Michael J. Fox and The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004) with Ryan Gosling and Gena Rowlands. On television, he could be seen as Cate's father Jim Egan in the Sitcom 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005) starring Katey Sagal. He suffered a mild stroke in 2008, after which he appeared only as a voice actor in various film projects. In 2011, Simon & Schuster published Garner's autobiography 'The Garner Files: A Memoir'. In addition to recounting his career, the memoir, co-written with nonfiction writer Jon Winokur, detailed the childhood abuses Garner suffered at the hands of his stepmother. It also offered frank, unflattering assessments of some of Garner's co-stars such as Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson. In addition to recalling the genesis of most of Garner's hit films and television shows, the book also featured a section where the star provided individual critiques for every one of his acting projects accompanied by a star rating for each. James Garner succumbed to a heart attack in Los Angeles in 2014 at the age of 86. Since 1956 he was married to Lois Clarke, who brought their daughter Kimberley into the marriage. The couple last lived most of their time away from Hollywood on Garner's ranch near Santa Barbara. His biological daughter Greta 'Gigi' was a successful singer in Britain in the 1980s. For his contribution to the film and television industry, Garner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6927 Hollywood Boulevard).

 

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Vintage postcard. Photo: David LaChapelle, 1995.

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio tuned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

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HMS Victory

 

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

 

She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.

 

In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.

 

In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become HMS Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.

 

A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame. Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae. The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings. Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevit. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was launched on 7 May 1765, having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings, the equivalent of £7.92 million today

 

On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least ​9 1⁄2 inches too narrow. He told the dreadful news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through. However the launch itself revealed significant challenges in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be addressed. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.

 

Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway. Internal fitting out continued in a somewhat desultory manner over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778. Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.

 

Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m....Nelson...came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead...when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" - Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail - Log."

 

On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort. Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.

 

Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships. They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.

 

The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant. Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.

 

After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean. The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hrs and the order was given to form line of battle. On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept. Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid. At 0600 hrs, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards. At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine. He died at half past four. Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship. Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.

 

Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs. Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

 

In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.

 

In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.

 

Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation – a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".

 

HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die HMS Victory (engl.: Sieg) von 1765 ist das älteste im britischen Marinedienst befindliche Schiff. Bekanntheit erlangte die Victory als Flaggschiff von Vizeadmiral Nelson in der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar. Sie ist heute ein Museumsschiff in Portsmouth, dient aber auch dem Ersten Seelord für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die heute noch existierende Victory ist das sechste Schiff der Royal Navy, das diesen Namen trug.

 

1758 riefen die Minister König Georgs II. ein ehrgeiziges Projekt zum Bau von zwölf neuen Linienschiffen ins Leben. An der Spitze der Liste befand sich ein Schiff – zum damaligen Zeitpunkt noch ohne jeden Namen – vom 1. Rang mit über 100 Kanonen, das in Chatham zu bauen sei. Bereits für das folgende Jahr rechnete man mit der Kiellegung.

 

Das Jahr 1759 war das „Jahr der Siege“ für Großbritannien. Gemessen an militärischen Erfolgen war es der Höhepunkt des Siebenjährigen Krieges. Auf dem Land triumphierten britische Truppen und ihre Verbündeten in Surat (Indien), Minden und Québec. Zur See verzeichnete man die gewonnenen Schlachten bei Lagos und Quiberon. Aus der Euphorie um die Siege gab man dem Schiff den Namen Victory (englisch für Sieg). Der Entwurf der Victory stammte von Sir Thomas Slade. Er basierte auf dem der Royal George von 1756.

 

Die Victory wurde am 14. Juli 1759 in Auftrag gegeben und noch im selben Jahr, am 23. Juli 1759, legte man in einem Trockendock der Marinewerft in Chatham den Kiel, gefertigt aus Ulmenstämmen von bis zu 50,8 cm Durchmesser. Auf diesem wurden die Spanten errichtet und sowohl innen als auch außen beplankt, so dass ein „Dreischichtenrumpf“ (englisch „three-ply hull“) entstand. Für den Bau verantwortlich war John Lock, Schiffbaumeister auf der Marinewerft. Als dieser im Jahre 1762 starb, wurde Edward Allin sein Nachfolger. Am 30. Oktober 1760 wurde das Schiff als Victory in die Schiffsliste der britischen Royal Navy eingetragen.

 

Am 21. Oktober 1805 nahm die Victory unter Vizeadmiral Lord Nelson und Kapitän Thomas Masterman Hardy an der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar teil und fungierte hier als Flaggschiff. Dank des bis 1803 erfolgten Umbaus hatte das Schiff zu diesem Zeitpunkt 104 Kanonen an Bord.

 

Die Victory hatte dabei einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf die Schlacht.

 

Erfüllt von Geschichte und Marinetradition, wurde der Victory von Philip Watts der Titel „The Westminster Abbey of the Royal Navy“ verliehen. Sie dient auch heute noch dem Commander in Chief der Royal Navy für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die Victory kann man nach wie vor in Portsmouth besichtigen. Sie befindet sich in den Historic Dockyards in einem Trockendock und ist komplett vom Kielschwein bis zum Oberdeck begehbar – lediglich Admiralitätsmesse und Kapitänskajüte sind nur durch einen kleinen Durchgang zu besichtigen. In der Admiralitätsmesse ist eine originalgetreue Nachbildung der Uniform von Lord Nelson ausgestellt (das Original findet sich im Marinemuseum in Greenwich). Nur wenige der Geschütze an Bord sind echte Kanonen aus der damaligen Zeit (ca. 8 Stück, davon drei 32-Pfünder des unteren Kanonendecks). Der Rest wurde durch Geschützattrappen (z. B. auf dem Außendeck) ersetzt, um das Museumsschiff optisch aufzuwerten und um den Eindruck eines voll bestückten Kriegsschiffes zu gewährleisten. Die Verwendung von Attrappen hat aber auch statische Gründe, da durch die Trockenlegung die Tragkraft des Holzes nachgelassen hat. Würde das volle Gewicht der alten Kanonenzahl auf den Decks lasten, könnte es zu Schäden kommen. Die Takelage ist ebenfalls nicht vollständig. Nur die unteren Masten bis zum Eselshaupt sind aufgeriggt.

 

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HMS Victory

 

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

 

She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.

 

In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.

 

In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become HMS Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.

 

A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame. Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae. The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings. Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevit. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was launched on 7 May 1765, having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings, the equivalent of £7.92 million today

 

On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least ​9 1⁄2 inches too narrow. He told the dreadful news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through. However the launch itself revealed significant challenges in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be addressed. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.

 

Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway. Internal fitting out continued in a somewhat desultory manner over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778. Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.

 

Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m....Nelson...came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead...when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" - Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail - Log."

 

On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort. Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.

 

Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships. They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.

 

The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant. Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.

 

After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean. The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hrs and the order was given to form line of battle. On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept. Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid. At 0600 hrs, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards. At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine. He died at half past four. Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship. Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.

 

Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs. Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

 

In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.

 

In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.

 

Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation – a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".

 

HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years

 

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Die HMS Victory (engl.: Sieg) von 1765 ist das älteste im britischen Marinedienst befindliche Schiff. Bekanntheit erlangte die Victory als Flaggschiff von Vizeadmiral Nelson in der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar. Sie ist heute ein Museumsschiff in Portsmouth, dient aber auch dem Ersten Seelord für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die heute noch existierende Victory ist das sechste Schiff der Royal Navy, das diesen Namen trug.

 

1758 riefen die Minister König Georgs II. ein ehrgeiziges Projekt zum Bau von zwölf neuen Linienschiffen ins Leben. An der Spitze der Liste befand sich ein Schiff – zum damaligen Zeitpunkt noch ohne jeden Namen – vom 1. Rang mit über 100 Kanonen, das in Chatham zu bauen sei. Bereits für das folgende Jahr rechnete man mit der Kiellegung.

 

Das Jahr 1759 war das „Jahr der Siege“ für Großbritannien. Gemessen an militärischen Erfolgen war es der Höhepunkt des Siebenjährigen Krieges. Auf dem Land triumphierten britische Truppen und ihre Verbündeten in Surat (Indien), Minden und Québec. Zur See verzeichnete man die gewonnenen Schlachten bei Lagos und Quiberon. Aus der Euphorie um die Siege gab man dem Schiff den Namen Victory (englisch für Sieg). Der Entwurf der Victory stammte von Sir Thomas Slade. Er basierte auf dem der Royal George von 1756.

 

Die Victory wurde am 14. Juli 1759 in Auftrag gegeben und noch im selben Jahr, am 23. Juli 1759, legte man in einem Trockendock der Marinewerft in Chatham den Kiel, gefertigt aus Ulmenstämmen von bis zu 50,8 cm Durchmesser. Auf diesem wurden die Spanten errichtet und sowohl innen als auch außen beplankt, so dass ein „Dreischichtenrumpf“ (englisch „three-ply hull“) entstand. Für den Bau verantwortlich war John Lock, Schiffbaumeister auf der Marinewerft. Als dieser im Jahre 1762 starb, wurde Edward Allin sein Nachfolger. Am 30. Oktober 1760 wurde das Schiff als Victory in die Schiffsliste der britischen Royal Navy eingetragen.

 

Am 21. Oktober 1805 nahm die Victory unter Vizeadmiral Lord Nelson und Kapitän Thomas Masterman Hardy an der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar teil und fungierte hier als Flaggschiff. Dank des bis 1803 erfolgten Umbaus hatte das Schiff zu diesem Zeitpunkt 104 Kanonen an Bord.

 

Die Victory hatte dabei einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf die Schlacht.

 

Erfüllt von Geschichte und Marinetradition, wurde der Victory von Philip Watts der Titel „The Westminster Abbey of the Royal Navy“ verliehen. Sie dient auch heute noch dem Commander in Chief der Royal Navy für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die Victory kann man nach wie vor in Portsmouth besichtigen. Sie befindet sich in den Historic Dockyards in einem Trockendock und ist komplett vom Kielschwein bis zum Oberdeck begehbar – lediglich Admiralitätsmesse und Kapitänskajüte sind nur durch einen kleinen Durchgang zu besichtigen. In der Admiralitätsmesse ist eine originalgetreue Nachbildung der Uniform von Lord Nelson ausgestellt (das Original findet sich im Marinemuseum in Greenwich). Nur wenige der Geschütze an Bord sind echte Kanonen aus der damaligen Zeit (ca. 8 Stück, davon drei 32-Pfünder des unteren Kanonendecks). Der Rest wurde durch Geschützattrappen (z. B. auf dem Außendeck) ersetzt, um das Museumsschiff optisch aufzuwerten und um den Eindruck eines voll bestückten Kriegsschiffes zu gewährleisten. Die Verwendung von Attrappen hat aber auch statische Gründe, da durch die Trockenlegung die Tragkraft des Holzes nachgelassen hat. Würde das volle Gewicht der alten Kanonenzahl auf den Decks lasten, könnte es zu Schäden kommen. Die Takelage ist ebenfalls nicht vollständig. Nur die unteren Masten bis zum Eselshaupt sind aufgeriggt.

 

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Vintage postcard by One. Photo: David LaChapelle, 1995.

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio tuned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

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Spanish postcard by Memory Card, no. 434. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996).

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio tuned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

British postcard by The Alternative Picture Co., no. RCL845. Photo: David LaChapelle, 1995.

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio tuned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

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HMS Victory

 

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

 

She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.

 

In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.

 

In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become HMS Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.

 

A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame. Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae. The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings. Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevit. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was launched on 7 May 1765, having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings, the equivalent of £7.92 million today

 

On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least ​9 1⁄2 inches too narrow. He told the dreadful news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through. However the launch itself revealed significant challenges in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be addressed. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.

 

Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway. Internal fitting out continued in a somewhat desultory manner over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778. Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.

 

Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m....Nelson...came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead...when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" - Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail - Log."

 

On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort. Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.

 

Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships. They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.

 

The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant. Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.

 

After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean. The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hrs and the order was given to form line of battle. On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept. Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid. At 0600 hrs, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards. At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine. He died at half past four. Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship. Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.

 

Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs. Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

 

In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.

 

In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.

 

Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation – a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".

 

HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die HMS Victory (engl.: Sieg) von 1765 ist das älteste im britischen Marinedienst befindliche Schiff. Bekanntheit erlangte die Victory als Flaggschiff von Vizeadmiral Nelson in der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar. Sie ist heute ein Museumsschiff in Portsmouth, dient aber auch dem Ersten Seelord für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die heute noch existierende Victory ist das sechste Schiff der Royal Navy, das diesen Namen trug.

 

1758 riefen die Minister König Georgs II. ein ehrgeiziges Projekt zum Bau von zwölf neuen Linienschiffen ins Leben. An der Spitze der Liste befand sich ein Schiff – zum damaligen Zeitpunkt noch ohne jeden Namen – vom 1. Rang mit über 100 Kanonen, das in Chatham zu bauen sei. Bereits für das folgende Jahr rechnete man mit der Kiellegung.

 

Das Jahr 1759 war das „Jahr der Siege“ für Großbritannien. Gemessen an militärischen Erfolgen war es der Höhepunkt des Siebenjährigen Krieges. Auf dem Land triumphierten britische Truppen und ihre Verbündeten in Surat (Indien), Minden und Québec. Zur See verzeichnete man die gewonnenen Schlachten bei Lagos und Quiberon. Aus der Euphorie um die Siege gab man dem Schiff den Namen Victory (englisch für Sieg). Der Entwurf der Victory stammte von Sir Thomas Slade. Er basierte auf dem der Royal George von 1756.

 

Die Victory wurde am 14. Juli 1759 in Auftrag gegeben und noch im selben Jahr, am 23. Juli 1759, legte man in einem Trockendock der Marinewerft in Chatham den Kiel, gefertigt aus Ulmenstämmen von bis zu 50,8 cm Durchmesser. Auf diesem wurden die Spanten errichtet und sowohl innen als auch außen beplankt, so dass ein „Dreischichtenrumpf“ (englisch „three-ply hull“) entstand. Für den Bau verantwortlich war John Lock, Schiffbaumeister auf der Marinewerft. Als dieser im Jahre 1762 starb, wurde Edward Allin sein Nachfolger. Am 30. Oktober 1760 wurde das Schiff als Victory in die Schiffsliste der britischen Royal Navy eingetragen.

 

Am 21. Oktober 1805 nahm die Victory unter Vizeadmiral Lord Nelson und Kapitän Thomas Masterman Hardy an der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar teil und fungierte hier als Flaggschiff. Dank des bis 1803 erfolgten Umbaus hatte das Schiff zu diesem Zeitpunkt 104 Kanonen an Bord.

 

Die Victory hatte dabei einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf die Schlacht.

 

Erfüllt von Geschichte und Marinetradition, wurde der Victory von Philip Watts der Titel „The Westminster Abbey of the Royal Navy“ verliehen. Sie dient auch heute noch dem Commander in Chief der Royal Navy für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die Victory kann man nach wie vor in Portsmouth besichtigen. Sie befindet sich in den Historic Dockyards in einem Trockendock und ist komplett vom Kielschwein bis zum Oberdeck begehbar – lediglich Admiralitätsmesse und Kapitänskajüte sind nur durch einen kleinen Durchgang zu besichtigen. In der Admiralitätsmesse ist eine originalgetreue Nachbildung der Uniform von Lord Nelson ausgestellt (das Original findet sich im Marinemuseum in Greenwich). Nur wenige der Geschütze an Bord sind echte Kanonen aus der damaligen Zeit (ca. 8 Stück, davon drei 32-Pfünder des unteren Kanonendecks). Der Rest wurde durch Geschützattrappen (z. B. auf dem Außendeck) ersetzt, um das Museumsschiff optisch aufzuwerten und um den Eindruck eines voll bestückten Kriegsschiffes zu gewährleisten. Die Verwendung von Attrappen hat aber auch statische Gründe, da durch die Trockenlegung die Tragkraft des Holzes nachgelassen hat. Würde das volle Gewicht der alten Kanonenzahl auf den Decks lasten, könnte es zu Schäden kommen. Die Takelage ist ebenfalls nicht vollständig. Nur die unteren Masten bis zum Eselshaupt sind aufgeriggt.

 

(Wikipedia)

Vintage postcard by 7up, no DD 2079B. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount. Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic (James Cameron, 1997).

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio turned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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Each year's hatchlings seem to say together until it is time to migrate. They also aren't as skittish so they don't take off as you approach for a photo. Next year they won't let you hardly even see them as they will take to the underbrush. The males should start getting their color shortly.

 

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Vintage postcard. Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996).

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio turned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

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HMS Victory

 

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

 

She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.

 

In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.

 

In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become HMS Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.

 

A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame. Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae. The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings. Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevit. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was launched on 7 May 1765, having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings, the equivalent of £7.92 million today

 

On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least ​9 1⁄2 inches too narrow. He told the dreadful news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through. However the launch itself revealed significant challenges in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be addressed. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.

 

Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway. Internal fitting out continued in a somewhat desultory manner over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778. Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.

 

Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m....Nelson...came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead...when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" - Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail - Log."

 

On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort. Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.

 

Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships. They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.

 

The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant. Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.

 

After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean. The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hrs and the order was given to form line of battle. On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept. Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid. At 0600 hrs, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards. At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine. He died at half past four. Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship. Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.

 

Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs. Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

 

In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.

 

In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.

 

Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation – a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".

 

HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die HMS Victory (engl.: Sieg) von 1765 ist das älteste im britischen Marinedienst befindliche Schiff. Bekanntheit erlangte die Victory als Flaggschiff von Vizeadmiral Nelson in der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar. Sie ist heute ein Museumsschiff in Portsmouth, dient aber auch dem Ersten Seelord für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die heute noch existierende Victory ist das sechste Schiff der Royal Navy, das diesen Namen trug.

 

1758 riefen die Minister König Georgs II. ein ehrgeiziges Projekt zum Bau von zwölf neuen Linienschiffen ins Leben. An der Spitze der Liste befand sich ein Schiff – zum damaligen Zeitpunkt noch ohne jeden Namen – vom 1. Rang mit über 100 Kanonen, das in Chatham zu bauen sei. Bereits für das folgende Jahr rechnete man mit der Kiellegung.

 

Das Jahr 1759 war das „Jahr der Siege“ für Großbritannien. Gemessen an militärischen Erfolgen war es der Höhepunkt des Siebenjährigen Krieges. Auf dem Land triumphierten britische Truppen und ihre Verbündeten in Surat (Indien), Minden und Québec. Zur See verzeichnete man die gewonnenen Schlachten bei Lagos und Quiberon. Aus der Euphorie um die Siege gab man dem Schiff den Namen Victory (englisch für Sieg). Der Entwurf der Victory stammte von Sir Thomas Slade. Er basierte auf dem der Royal George von 1756.

 

Die Victory wurde am 14. Juli 1759 in Auftrag gegeben und noch im selben Jahr, am 23. Juli 1759, legte man in einem Trockendock der Marinewerft in Chatham den Kiel, gefertigt aus Ulmenstämmen von bis zu 50,8 cm Durchmesser. Auf diesem wurden die Spanten errichtet und sowohl innen als auch außen beplankt, so dass ein „Dreischichtenrumpf“ (englisch „three-ply hull“) entstand. Für den Bau verantwortlich war John Lock, Schiffbaumeister auf der Marinewerft. Als dieser im Jahre 1762 starb, wurde Edward Allin sein Nachfolger. Am 30. Oktober 1760 wurde das Schiff als Victory in die Schiffsliste der britischen Royal Navy eingetragen.

 

Am 21. Oktober 1805 nahm die Victory unter Vizeadmiral Lord Nelson und Kapitän Thomas Masterman Hardy an der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar teil und fungierte hier als Flaggschiff. Dank des bis 1803 erfolgten Umbaus hatte das Schiff zu diesem Zeitpunkt 104 Kanonen an Bord.

 

Die Victory hatte dabei einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf die Schlacht.

 

Erfüllt von Geschichte und Marinetradition, wurde der Victory von Philip Watts der Titel „The Westminster Abbey of the Royal Navy“ verliehen. Sie dient auch heute noch dem Commander in Chief der Royal Navy für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die Victory kann man nach wie vor in Portsmouth besichtigen. Sie befindet sich in den Historic Dockyards in einem Trockendock und ist komplett vom Kielschwein bis zum Oberdeck begehbar – lediglich Admiralitätsmesse und Kapitänskajüte sind nur durch einen kleinen Durchgang zu besichtigen. In der Admiralitätsmesse ist eine originalgetreue Nachbildung der Uniform von Lord Nelson ausgestellt (das Original findet sich im Marinemuseum in Greenwich). Nur wenige der Geschütze an Bord sind echte Kanonen aus der damaligen Zeit (ca. 8 Stück, davon drei 32-Pfünder des unteren Kanonendecks). Der Rest wurde durch Geschützattrappen (z. B. auf dem Außendeck) ersetzt, um das Museumsschiff optisch aufzuwerten und um den Eindruck eines voll bestückten Kriegsschiffes zu gewährleisten. Die Verwendung von Attrappen hat aber auch statische Gründe, da durch die Trockenlegung die Tragkraft des Holzes nachgelassen hat. Würde das volle Gewicht der alten Kanonenzahl auf den Decks lasten, könnte es zu Schäden kommen. Die Takelage ist ebenfalls nicht vollständig. Nur die unteren Masten bis zum Eselshaupt sind aufgeriggt.

 

(Wikipedia)

HMS Victory

 

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

 

She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.

 

In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.

 

In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become HMS Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.

 

A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame. Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae. The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings. Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevit. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was launched on 7 May 1765, having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings, the equivalent of £7.92 million today

 

On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least ​9 1⁄2 inches too narrow. He told the dreadful news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through. However the launch itself revealed significant challenges in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be addressed. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.

 

Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway. Internal fitting out continued in a somewhat desultory manner over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778. Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.

 

Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m....Nelson...came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead...when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" - Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail - Log."

 

On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort. Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.

 

Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships. They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.

 

The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant. Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.

 

After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean. The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hrs and the order was given to form line of battle. On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept. Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid. At 0600 hrs, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards. At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine. He died at half past four. Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship. Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.

 

Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs. Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

 

In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.

 

In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.

 

Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation – a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".

 

HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die HMS Victory (engl.: Sieg) von 1765 ist das älteste im britischen Marinedienst befindliche Schiff. Bekanntheit erlangte die Victory als Flaggschiff von Vizeadmiral Nelson in der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar. Sie ist heute ein Museumsschiff in Portsmouth, dient aber auch dem Ersten Seelord für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die heute noch existierende Victory ist das sechste Schiff der Royal Navy, das diesen Namen trug.

 

1758 riefen die Minister König Georgs II. ein ehrgeiziges Projekt zum Bau von zwölf neuen Linienschiffen ins Leben. An der Spitze der Liste befand sich ein Schiff – zum damaligen Zeitpunkt noch ohne jeden Namen – vom 1. Rang mit über 100 Kanonen, das in Chatham zu bauen sei. Bereits für das folgende Jahr rechnete man mit der Kiellegung.

 

Das Jahr 1759 war das „Jahr der Siege“ für Großbritannien. Gemessen an militärischen Erfolgen war es der Höhepunkt des Siebenjährigen Krieges. Auf dem Land triumphierten britische Truppen und ihre Verbündeten in Surat (Indien), Minden und Québec. Zur See verzeichnete man die gewonnenen Schlachten bei Lagos und Quiberon. Aus der Euphorie um die Siege gab man dem Schiff den Namen Victory (englisch für Sieg). Der Entwurf der Victory stammte von Sir Thomas Slade. Er basierte auf dem der Royal George von 1756.

 

Die Victory wurde am 14. Juli 1759 in Auftrag gegeben und noch im selben Jahr, am 23. Juli 1759, legte man in einem Trockendock der Marinewerft in Chatham den Kiel, gefertigt aus Ulmenstämmen von bis zu 50,8 cm Durchmesser. Auf diesem wurden die Spanten errichtet und sowohl innen als auch außen beplankt, so dass ein „Dreischichtenrumpf“ (englisch „three-ply hull“) entstand. Für den Bau verantwortlich war John Lock, Schiffbaumeister auf der Marinewerft. Als dieser im Jahre 1762 starb, wurde Edward Allin sein Nachfolger. Am 30. Oktober 1760 wurde das Schiff als Victory in die Schiffsliste der britischen Royal Navy eingetragen.

 

Am 21. Oktober 1805 nahm die Victory unter Vizeadmiral Lord Nelson und Kapitän Thomas Masterman Hardy an der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar teil und fungierte hier als Flaggschiff. Dank des bis 1803 erfolgten Umbaus hatte das Schiff zu diesem Zeitpunkt 104 Kanonen an Bord.

 

Die Victory hatte dabei einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf die Schlacht.

 

Erfüllt von Geschichte und Marinetradition, wurde der Victory von Philip Watts der Titel „The Westminster Abbey of the Royal Navy“ verliehen. Sie dient auch heute noch dem Commander in Chief der Royal Navy für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die Victory kann man nach wie vor in Portsmouth besichtigen. Sie befindet sich in den Historic Dockyards in einem Trockendock und ist komplett vom Kielschwein bis zum Oberdeck begehbar – lediglich Admiralitätsmesse und Kapitänskajüte sind nur durch einen kleinen Durchgang zu besichtigen. In der Admiralitätsmesse ist eine originalgetreue Nachbildung der Uniform von Lord Nelson ausgestellt (das Original findet sich im Marinemuseum in Greenwich). Nur wenige der Geschütze an Bord sind echte Kanonen aus der damaligen Zeit (ca. 8 Stück, davon drei 32-Pfünder des unteren Kanonendecks). Der Rest wurde durch Geschützattrappen (z. B. auf dem Außendeck) ersetzt, um das Museumsschiff optisch aufzuwerten und um den Eindruck eines voll bestückten Kriegsschiffes zu gewährleisten. Die Verwendung von Attrappen hat aber auch statische Gründe, da durch die Trockenlegung die Tragkraft des Holzes nachgelassen hat. Würde das volle Gewicht der alten Kanonenzahl auf den Decks lasten, könnte es zu Schäden kommen. Die Takelage ist ebenfalls nicht vollständig. Nur die unteren Masten bis zum Eselshaupt sind aufgeriggt.

 

(Wikipedia)

Wächter ----- Die Emder Gans wird häufig auch Emdener Gans genannt.Sie ist Deutschlands älteste und größte Gänserasse.Die Zucht der Emder Gans ist bis zurück ins 13. Jahrhundert nachweisbar. Der Ursprung aller Hausgansrassen ist dieGraugans. Einer der Meilensteine, der zur Herausbildung der Gans führte, stellte die in den Niederlanden (Westfriesland) und Ostfriesland (Emden) sowie Bremen gehaltene große Landgans dar. Im Rassenamen lautet das Attribut in Emden selbst zwar Emder, dennoch ist auch die Bezeichnung Emdener Gans in Zuchtkreisen mittlerweile stark verbreitet. ------------

The Emden Goose is a breed of domestic goose. The origins of this breed are thought to be from the North Sea region, in the Netherlands and Germany. The eminent author Lewis Wright wrote around 1900 that he was of the opinion that they originated from the town of Emden in Lower Saxony, Germany, although Edward Brown in his 1906 Races of Domestic Poultry believed that the breed was created by crossing the German White with the English White and then, by a process of careful selections, creating the goose as it is today. Others suggest that the English Emden's great weight and size was produced by selective breeding with the Toulouse breed, which was then bred out leaving the large size of this breed. In any case, the continental stock used in breeding the modern birds is most likely descended from the great white landrace of Frisia, which has been attested as early as the 13th century. In German the breed is known as Emder Gans or Emdener Gans; the latter is actually a hypercorrection. --------------- More info and other languages available at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emden_goose

British postcard by Memory Card, no. 671. Photo: James Marsden as Cyclops in X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000).

 

American actor James Marsden (1973) gained prominence with his portrayal of Scott Summers / Cyclops in the X-Men film series (2000–2014). He also starred in such box office hits as Superman Returns (2006), Hairspray (2007), and 27 Dresses (2008).

 

James Paul Marsden was born in 1973 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the son of Kathleen (née Scholtz), a nutritionist, and James Luther Marsden, a food safety advisor to LexiGene Industries. His parents divorced when he was nine years old. He attended Hefner Middle School and Putnam City North High School, in Oklahoma City. Later he went on to attend Oklahoma State University, where he studied broadcast journalism. Marsden left after one and a half years and moved to Los Angeles in order to pursue his acting career. He got his first job in a series of episodes of The Nanny as Eddie, Margaret Sheffield's boyfriend. He guest-starred on television shows such as Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1993), Party of Five (1995), and Ally McBeal (2001-2002). Marsden starred in the films Disturbing Behavior (David Nutter, 1998) opposite Katie Holmes and Gossip (Davis Guggenheim, 2000) opposite Kate Hudson. That same year, Marsden was cast as Cyclops in X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000). He also appeared in the sequel, X2 (Bryan Singer, 2003). In 2004, Marsden co-starred with Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, James Garner, and Gena Rowlands in the romantic drama The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004) as Lon Hammond, Jr., the second man Allie Hamilton (McAdams) falls in love with. Marsden also appeared in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006), featuring Brandon Routh. Singer had dropped out of the third X-Men film to direct Superman and Marsden was cast as Lois Lane's (Kate Bosworth) fiancé, Richard White. Due to schedule conflicts, Marsden's screen time in X-Men: The Last Stand/X3 (Brett Ratner, 2006) was reduced, stirring controversy from fans of the comics. Marsden's portrayal of Cyclops in the films was well received and garnered him a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2007, Marsden played Corny Collins in the critically acclaimed musical Hairspray (Adam Shankman, 2007), the film adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the 1988 John Waters film. Marsden sang two songs, 'The Nicest Kids In Town' and '(It's) Hairspray'. His next role was with Amy Adams in the Disney hybrid animated/live-action film Enchanted (Kevin Lima, 2007), playing Prince Edward. Enchanted was well-received critically and proved to be a commercial success, earning more than $340 million worldwide at the box office. Following these successes, Marsden played the male lead in the romantic comedy 27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher, 2008) opposite star Katherine Heigl, which grossed $160 million worldwide. He also starred in the teen comedy Sex Drive (Sean Anders, 2008). Though the film was a moderate success, Marsden's performance was heavily praised. In 2009, Marsden also played the male lead in the psychological thriller The Box (Richard Kelly, 2009), based on the 1970 short story 'Button, Button' by Richard Matheson, which was earlier made into an episode of The Twilight Zone. He starred opposite Cameron Diaz and Frank Langella. Then, Marsden was cast in the comedy Death at a Funeral (Neil LaBute, 2010), a remake of the 2007 British film of the same name, along with Chris Rock and Luke Wilson.

 

James Marsden made an appearance on Modern Family (2011), playing a squatter. He appeared as the male (live-action) lead in Hop (Tim Hill, 2010), an Easter-themed comedy co-starring Russell Brand as the Easter Bunny. Although the film grossed over $100 million at the U.S. box office, Hop generally received negative reviews. Then, Marsden played the lead in Straw Dogs (Rod Lurie, 2011), a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film; Marsden portrayed the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the original. The film received mixed reviews and ended up being a box office flop. In 2012 and 2013, Marsden appeared in a recurring role in the sixth and seventh seasons of 30 Rock, playing Criss Chros, the boyfriend (and later husband) of the series' main character Liz Lemon. He also appeared in several independent films, including Small Apartments (Jonas Åkerlund, 2012), the comedy Bachelorette (Leslye Headland, 2012) with Kirsten Dunst, and the comedy-drama As Cool as I Am (Max Mayer, 2013) with Claire Danes. In 2013, he co-starred with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg in the action film 2 Guns (Baltasar Kormákur, 2013). Soon after, he played President John F. Kenned in Lee Daniels' historical drama The Butler (2013). The film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African-American who is a witness of notable political and social events of the 20th century during his 34-year tenure serving as a White House butler. Marsden played Jack Lime, a rival reporter to Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy, in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Adam McKay, 2013). The following year, he reprised his role as Cyclops/Scott Summers for the first time in eight years in X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer, 2014) in a cameo, as did other actors from the first film including Anna Paquin and Famke Janssen. He would also star in his second Nicholas Sparks film titled The Best of Me (Michael Hoffman, 2014), replacing Paul Walker in the lead role. In the TV series Westworld (2016-2018), Marsden played the character of sentient android Teddy Flood. Other TV series he played in are the dark comedy series Dead to M (2019-2020), the miniseries The Stand (2020), and the miniseries Mrs. America (2020). In 2020, he also starred with Jim Carrey in the film Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler, 2020), based on the Sonic video game franchise. The film grossed over $310 million worldwide. James Marsden married Mary Elizabeth "Lisa" Linde in 2000. The couple has two children: a son born in 2001 and a daughter born in 2005. They divorced in 2011, with Linde citing irreconcilable differences. He also has a son, born in 2012, with his former girlfriend Rose Costa.

 

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Vintage card.

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio turned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

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HMS Victory

 

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

 

She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.

 

In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.

 

In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become HMS Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.

 

A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame. Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae. The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings. Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevit. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was launched on 7 May 1765, having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings, the equivalent of £7.92 million today

 

On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least ​9 1⁄2 inches too narrow. He told the dreadful news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through. However the launch itself revealed significant challenges in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be addressed. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.

 

Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway. Internal fitting out continued in a somewhat desultory manner over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778. Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.

 

Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m....Nelson...came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead...when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" - Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail - Log."

 

On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort. Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.

 

Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships. They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.

 

The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant. Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.

 

After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean. The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hrs and the order was given to form line of battle. On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept. Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid. At 0600 hrs, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards. At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine. He died at half past four. Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship. Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.

 

Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs. Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

 

In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.

 

In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.

 

Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation – a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".

 

HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die HMS Victory (engl.: Sieg) von 1765 ist das älteste im britischen Marinedienst befindliche Schiff. Bekanntheit erlangte die Victory als Flaggschiff von Vizeadmiral Nelson in der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar. Sie ist heute ein Museumsschiff in Portsmouth, dient aber auch dem Ersten Seelord für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die heute noch existierende Victory ist das sechste Schiff der Royal Navy, das diesen Namen trug.

 

1758 riefen die Minister König Georgs II. ein ehrgeiziges Projekt zum Bau von zwölf neuen Linienschiffen ins Leben. An der Spitze der Liste befand sich ein Schiff – zum damaligen Zeitpunkt noch ohne jeden Namen – vom 1. Rang mit über 100 Kanonen, das in Chatham zu bauen sei. Bereits für das folgende Jahr rechnete man mit der Kiellegung.

 

Das Jahr 1759 war das „Jahr der Siege“ für Großbritannien. Gemessen an militärischen Erfolgen war es der Höhepunkt des Siebenjährigen Krieges. Auf dem Land triumphierten britische Truppen und ihre Verbündeten in Surat (Indien), Minden und Québec. Zur See verzeichnete man die gewonnenen Schlachten bei Lagos und Quiberon. Aus der Euphorie um die Siege gab man dem Schiff den Namen Victory (englisch für Sieg). Der Entwurf der Victory stammte von Sir Thomas Slade. Er basierte auf dem der Royal George von 1756.

 

Die Victory wurde am 14. Juli 1759 in Auftrag gegeben und noch im selben Jahr, am 23. Juli 1759, legte man in einem Trockendock der Marinewerft in Chatham den Kiel, gefertigt aus Ulmenstämmen von bis zu 50,8 cm Durchmesser. Auf diesem wurden die Spanten errichtet und sowohl innen als auch außen beplankt, so dass ein „Dreischichtenrumpf“ (englisch „three-ply hull“) entstand. Für den Bau verantwortlich war John Lock, Schiffbaumeister auf der Marinewerft. Als dieser im Jahre 1762 starb, wurde Edward Allin sein Nachfolger. Am 30. Oktober 1760 wurde das Schiff als Victory in die Schiffsliste der britischen Royal Navy eingetragen.

 

Am 21. Oktober 1805 nahm die Victory unter Vizeadmiral Lord Nelson und Kapitän Thomas Masterman Hardy an der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar teil und fungierte hier als Flaggschiff. Dank des bis 1803 erfolgten Umbaus hatte das Schiff zu diesem Zeitpunkt 104 Kanonen an Bord.

 

Die Victory hatte dabei einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf die Schlacht.

 

Erfüllt von Geschichte und Marinetradition, wurde der Victory von Philip Watts der Titel „The Westminster Abbey of the Royal Navy“ verliehen. Sie dient auch heute noch dem Commander in Chief der Royal Navy für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die Victory kann man nach wie vor in Portsmouth besichtigen. Sie befindet sich in den Historic Dockyards in einem Trockendock und ist komplett vom Kielschwein bis zum Oberdeck begehbar – lediglich Admiralitätsmesse und Kapitänskajüte sind nur durch einen kleinen Durchgang zu besichtigen. In der Admiralitätsmesse ist eine originalgetreue Nachbildung der Uniform von Lord Nelson ausgestellt (das Original findet sich im Marinemuseum in Greenwich). Nur wenige der Geschütze an Bord sind echte Kanonen aus der damaligen Zeit (ca. 8 Stück, davon drei 32-Pfünder des unteren Kanonendecks). Der Rest wurde durch Geschützattrappen (z. B. auf dem Außendeck) ersetzt, um das Museumsschiff optisch aufzuwerten und um den Eindruck eines voll bestückten Kriegsschiffes zu gewährleisten. Die Verwendung von Attrappen hat aber auch statische Gründe, da durch die Trockenlegung die Tragkraft des Holzes nachgelassen hat. Würde das volle Gewicht der alten Kanonenzahl auf den Decks lasten, könnte es zu Schäden kommen. Die Takelage ist ebenfalls nicht vollständig. Nur die unteren Masten bis zum Eselshaupt sind aufgeriggt.

 

(Wikipedia)

These plaques list just 16 of the 675 names of former pupils of Cheltenham College who died during the Great War. The names of all 675 are commemorated in the school's chapel.

 

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At 4pm on the 4th August 1914, the British Government gave orders for the mobilization of the Army.

The Foreign Office issued this statement at 12.15am on the 5th August:

Owing to the summary rejection by the German Government of the request made by His Majesty's Government for assurances that the neutrality of Belguim will be respected, His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin has received his passports and His Majesty's Government have declared to the German Government that a state of war exists between Great Britain and Germany as from 11pm on the 4th August.

 

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The Battle of Mons: 23rd August 1914

  

The Retreat from Mons: 24th August to 5th September

 

Captain Robert Yardley Sidebottom

26.08.14 La Ferte-sous-Jouarre (killed at Ligny)

2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, 12th Brigade, 4th Division

An account of the action on August 26th (Regt QM Sgt Frank King / Paul Nettleton)

 

Colonel Frank Ridley Farrer Boileau

28.08.14 Wimille (wounded at Ham, on the River Somme, France on 27th Aug)

Royal Engineers (attached as GSO1, Chief Staff Officer, 3rd Division General Staff)

 

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"Affair of Nery"

 

Lieut Claude Norman Champion de Crespigny

01.09.14 Hatfield, Hertfordshire (killed, probably at Néry, nr Compiègne, France)

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), 1st Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Division

The Queen's Bays were fighting with 'L' Battery, RHA (see below) on the morning of September 1st. "They too had been caught by the German artillery and many of their horses had been killed under them but dismounted they played the part of gallant infantrymen"

 

"The brigade was hotly engaged and on the Bays fell the brunt of the fighting on Sept 1. Norman, with a few men, was holding an important tactical point and he held it until everyman was killed or wounded. No man could have done more, few would have done as much" Maj-Gen E. H. Allenby writing to Norman's mother (The Times 11th Sept 1914)

 

A blog by Mary Evans Picture Library

(Luci Gosling) explains how Lieut Champion de Crespigny came to be reburied in Hatfield.

 

Lieut John Davies Campbell

01.09.14 Néry, nr Compiègne

'L' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, Cavalry Division

"... Lieut Campbell , who had been helping with the ammunition took (the gunner's) seat and kept the firing up without the loss of a second of time. But he had not fired more than a couple of rounds when a shell burst under the shield. The explosion was awful, and the brave young officer was hurled about six yards away from the seat ... He lived only a few minutes"

 

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Lieut Lynton Woolmer White

3.09.14 Senlis (died of wounds)

1st (King's) Dragoon Guards (attached to 2nd Dragoon Guards (The Queen's Bays)

The Memorial gives the date of death as 10th September. Norfolk County Council gives the date as 4th September. CWGC states 3rd September.

Joined the army in 1905.

Check WO 339/7112.

 

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The Advance to the Aisne 6th September to 1st October

  

The Battle of the Marne: 6th to 10th September

 

2nd Lieut Edward James Vibart Collingwood-Thompson

10.09.14 Chateau of Perreuse, Signy Pereuse (died of wounds)

2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 19th Brigade

(Age 20 - only child)

Gazetted 12th September 1913 as 2nd Lieut (on probation)in 3rd Bn, RWF

 

Lieut Geoffrey Steward Augustus White

10.09.14 La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial (killed at Le Cateau(?))

2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regt, 7th Brigade, 3rd Division

 

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The Beginning of the Period known as The Race to the Sea

  

The Battle of the Aisne: 12th to 15th September

 

2nd Lieut Eric Vickers Tindall

12.09.14 Vailly (Died as a result of shrapnel wounds received at Priez on 11th September, during the Battle of the Marne)

4th Battalion, but attached to 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division

Age 21 - born 13th September 1892.

First saw service with the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Leicestershire Regt., joining on Sept 1911, and was promoted to Lieutenant the following year.

Joined the KRRC as a 2nd Lieutenant in June 1914.

 

Lieut Archibald John Denroche-Smith

13.09.14 La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial killed near Vendresse

18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars, 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Division

 

2nd Lieut Norman Moore Owen

13.09.14 La Ferte-Sour-Jouarre Memorial

49th Battery, Royal Field Artillery (40th Brigade, 3rd Division)

(Age 20)

 

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Lieut Horatio John Vicat

13.09.14 La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial

1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regt), 13th Brigade, 5th Division

(See the entry for H. J. Vicat on kentfallen website)

Cheltenham College memorial gives his date as 18th Sept. Need to check Service Record at Kew

 

Joined Royal West Kents in 1905. Made Lieutenant in 1908.

Employed on West Africa Frontier Force 1910 - 1912.

 

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Captain Cecil Howard Ker

15.09.14 Vendresse

1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regt, 13th Brigade, 5th Division

Only son of Mr and Mrs G. D. Ker of Tavistock

Gazetted to Bedfordshire Regt in 1903. Made Captain in 1912.

 

Captain George A Furse

16.09.14 Vendresse died of wounds received at the Battle of the Aisne

44th Battery, Royal Field Artillery

 

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Lieut-Colonel Dawson Warren

17.09.14 Paissy

1st Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt)

Mess photo taken in August 1914 (Regimental Museum website)

 

Joined Royal West Surrey Regt in 1885. Made Captain in 1895 and Major in 1903. Promoted to Lieut-Colonel in 1913.

 

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2nd Lieut Cosmo George Gordon

17.09.14 Vailly died of wounds nr Craonee

1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regt

(Age 20)

 

2nd Lieut Paul Chancourt Girardot

17.09.14 Soupir-sur-Aisne

2nd Battalion, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

(Age 18: Only son: joined army in February 1914)

 

2nd Lieut Charles E. Crane

18.09.14 Vailly-sur-Aisne (died of wounds, incurred at the Battle of the Aisne, at Mont de Soisson Hospital)

1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

(Age 22)

Gentleman Cadet, Royal Military College to 2nd Lieutenant in DCLI, effective 4th Sept 1912 (London Gazette)

 

Major William Stopford Sarsfield

20.09.14 Vailly-sur-Aisne (died of wounds)

2nd Battalion, Connaught Rangers

 

Lieut Geoffrey R. Fenton

20.09.14 La Ferte-sous-Juarre Memorial

2nd Battalion, Connaught Rangers

Joined the army in 1909

 

2nd Lieut Colin L. Mackenzie

20.09.14 Vendresse-Beaulne

2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry

(Age 22)

Gazetted to the HLI from the Special Reserve in 1913

 

2nd Lieut Charles Martin Stanuell

20.09.14 La Fert-sous-Jouarre Memorial

2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry

(Age 20)

Gazetted to the DLI at the start of 1914

 

Lieut John Cadwallader Coker (Mention in Despatches)

26.09.14 Vendresse-Beaulne (died of wounds)

1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers

Joined the SWB in 1908

 

2nd Lieut John Dundas Manley

26.9.14 Vendress (killed nearby)

Special Reserve, Royal Engineers

(Age 22)

 

Captain Arthur M. Ker

04.10.14 Vieille-Chapelle, nr Bethune

2nd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders

 

Only son. Joined army in 1901 and served in South Africa.

Promoted to Lieutenant in 1906, and Captain in 1911.

 

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Battle of La Bassee: 10th October to 2nd November

 

2nd Lieut Gordon Thomas Harcourt Morse

12.10.14 Vieille-Chapelle (killed nr La Bassee)

4th Battalion, Middlesex Regt

(Age 20 years & 10 months: A notice in The Times gives the date of his death as being between 12th and 14th October)

 

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Capt Cecil Glendower Percival Gilliat

14.10.14 Hazebrouck (died of wounds at Meteren)

1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regt

 

SEE ALSO: Captain Reginald H. C. Gilliat

06.04.15 Lavantie

5th Battalion, Leinster Regt, attached 1st (formerly 2nd) Battalion, Connaught Rangers

 

Twin brothers, and only sons of Mr and Mrs Cecil Gilliat of Cheltenham

 

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Capt Charles George Lyall

18.10.14 Touret Memorial (killed nr Illies)

1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regt

 

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First Battle of Ypres:

 

Langemark: 21st to 24th October

 

Lieut Cyril Egremont Gaitskill

19.10.14 Armentieres (died of wounds)

2nd Battalion, Leinster Regt

(Age 21)

 

Lieut Richard Terrick Stainforth

19.10.14 Ypres (died of wounds nr Ypres)

2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regt

(Age 20)

 

Lieut Leopold Grantley Norton

20.10.14 Ploegsteert Memorial (died of wounds nr Lille)

2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry

 

Lieut Archdale Maurice Stratford Tandy

20.10.14 Le Touret Memorial (killed nr Le Pilly)

2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regt

 

2nd Lt Philip Lloyd Elliott

21.10.14 Cuinchy (killed nr Lorgies)

1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

(Age 18)

WO 372/6/189611

 

Lieut Charles R. Ripley Mentioned in Despatches

22.10.14 Ploegsteert Memorial killed nr Lille

2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regt

 

Captain Edward Frederick Maltby Urquhart

23.10.14 Boezinge killed at Pilkem

1st Battalion, Black Watch (Highlanders)

 

Lieut Francis Lennox Holmes

23.10.14 Menin Gate Memorial killed nr Zonnebeke

1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regt

 

Lieut Gerard Ferrers Nixon Mentioned in Despatches

24.10.14 Lavantie killed at Neuve Chapelle

129th Battery, Royal Field Artillery

 

2nd Lieut Robert Craig Cowan

24.10.14 Le Touret Memorial killed at La Plinche

3rd Battalion (attached to 2nd Battalion), Royal Scots Guards

 

Lieut William Gordon Tollemache Hope-Johnstone

25.10.14 Le Touret Memorial killed at Neuve Chapelle

4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

 

2nd Lieut George Baird Bayley Mentioned in Despatches

26.10.14 Menin Gate Memorial killed at Ypres

2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

(Age 20)

KOSB T2/1

 

2nd Lieut Jack Maynard Harding

26.10.14 Le Touret Memorial killed at Ypres

1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regt)

(Age 20)

WO 339/11118

 

Capt (& Adjutant) George Bruce Legard (Twice Mentioned in Despatches)

27.10.14 Souchez (killed nr Neuve Chapelle)

1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regt)

WO 339/5986

 

Lieut John Haughton Rohde

28.10.14 Le Touret Memorial (killed nr Neuve Chapelle)

attd. 21st Coy. 3rd Sappers and Miners, Royal Engineers

 

Gheluvelt

 

Capt Alfred James Woodhouse

30.10.14 Menin Gate Memorial (killed nr Ypres)

35th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

 

Lieut Graham Eardley Dunsterville

30.10.14 Le Touret Memorial (killed nr Festubert)

1st Battalion, Devonshire Regt

WO 339/5984

 

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Capt Mervyn Crawshay

31.10.14 Langemark (killed nr Messines)

5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)

A webpage about the Crawshay family in the Great War states that he died on 14th November 1914, and was originally recorded as Missing in Action, and recorded as such on the Menin Gate Memorial.

 

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Pte 2853 William Eric McKay

01.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial (killed nr Messines)

1/14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish)

(Age 24, son of Mr and Mrs William W. McKay of Overbury, Watford)

 

The London Scottish at Messines (Blog)

 

It was a little surprised to find a Private soldier amongst all the Officers named on the College Memorial plaques, but I believe that, in August 1914, there were so many young men trying to enlist as officers that there were just not enough vacancies to meet the demand. I assume that Pte McKay was not a serving soldier on the day war was declared.

86 men of the London Scottish died on 1st November 1914. Browsing through their names on the CWGC Roll of Honour, it seems likely that the regiment had a higher than usual number of 'officer candidates' in the ranks.

 

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Capt George Clayhills D.S.O.

02.11.14 Ploegsteert (killed nr Armentieres - )

1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regt

See Anglo Boer War website for more information

 

London Gazette 17th January 1902 (p374)

List of Officers brought to attention in connection with operations ...

Lieut G. Clayhills "For good leading in capture of laager on Dec 3rd 1901"

 

London Gazette 31st October 1902 (p 6902)

The King has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following appointments ...

To be made Companion of the Distinguished Service Order

Lieutenant George Clayhills

 

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Lieut Edward Arthur Lousada

02.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial (killed nr Ypres)

2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regt

 

Lieut Geoffrey Dyett Abbott

02.11.14 Lavantie

1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers

 

Capt George Millais James (Mentioned in Despatches)

03.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial

1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regt), attached as Brigade Major, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division.

 

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Lieut Norman Ramsay

03.11.14 Dranouter, nr Ypres (Died of Wounds incurred nr Messines )

4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish)

Memorial records his death as 3rd November. Another sources gives 4th November.

The CWGC Roll states 13th November. Since there's a short obituary in The Times on 11th November, I shall stick to the 3rd as the date he died.

Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in January 1900. Promoted to Lieutenant in April 1901. Mentioned in Despatches while serving in the Anglo Boer War. Resigned his commission in 1903 but rejoined from the Reserve of Officers in 1914, going to France on 18th October.

(Possible) Service Record: WO 339/39038 + Medal Card: WO 372/16/140800

 

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Lieut Kenward Wallace Elmslie

04.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial

4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish)

 

Captain Kenneth Forbes-Robertson

07.11.14 Ploegsteert Memorial (killled at Ploegsteert Wood)

1st Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders

 

Capt James Randolph Geoghegan

07.11.14 Ploegsteert Wood

2nd Battalion, Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers

 

Major William Griffith Baynes Phibbs

08.11.14 Llangefni. Died in London after serving in the trenches (CWGC has date of death as 5th Nov)

1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers

 

Colonel Robert Burton Page

11.11.14 Le Havre (accidentaly killed at Le Havre)

Lancashire Fusiliers, attached No. 7 Gen. Base Depot

Age 57. Promoted to Brevet Colonel in 1906.

WO 372/15/90504

 

Nonne Boschen: 11th November

 

Major Alfred Herbert Tyler

11.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial

(from 10th November, C. O. of) 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers

His nephew, Lieut Albert Tyler, R. E. died the following day in exactly the same location.

 

Capt Boyce Anthony Combe (Lieutenant on CWGC Roll of Honour)

11.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial

6th Battalion (attached to 4th Battalion), Royal Fusiliers

Promoted to acting captain a few days before his death.

One of 64 men from 4th Battalion who died that day. Most have no known grave.

 

Captain Henry Marshall McKay

13.11.14 Lavantie (died at Sailly-sur-Lys)

Royal Engineers

 

Captain Hugh Vincent Corbett Turnbull

13.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial

2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

 

Captain George Raleigh Kerr Evatt

14.11.14 Fleurbaix, nr Armentières (died at Le Boutillerie)

'A' Company, 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regt

 

2nd Lieut Harold Rolleston Stables

15.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial

5th Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regt

 

Major George Baillie

18.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial

46th Battery, 39th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

 

Major Reginald William Sidney Elliott

23.11.14 Bethune

7th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army

 

Lieut Ralph Alec Reilly

23.11.14 Bethune (died at La Bassee)

31st Punjabis, attached to 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army

 

Captain Herbert Connell Whipple

24.11.14 Bailleul (Died of Wounds incurred at Messines)

1st Battalion, Devonshire Regt

 

Lieut Ralph Ivan Meynell Davidson

24.11.14 La Gorgue (Died of Wounds incurred at Festubert)

1st Battalion Manchester Regt

WO 339/7376

 

Lieut (possibly Acting Capt) Edward Durham

26.11.14 Le Touret Memorial (Died at Fauquissart)

2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade

 

Major William Richard Norton Annesley D.S.O.

29.11.14 St. Andrews, Scotland (Died in London)

Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) attached to General Staff

 

Capt Clive Guise Moores Mentioned in Despatches

30.11.14 Bailleul (Died of Wounds nr Kemmel)

Royal Engineers

 

Capt Hubert A. Stansfield

08.12.14 London (Died in Bournemouth)

Reserve of Officers, Yorkshire Regt#

 

Capt Hubert Charlton Rome

18.12.14 Beuvry (Died at Givenchy)

20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis), Indian Army

attached to 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis

 

Lieut Hubert Raynsford Gordon Kerr

19.12.14 Le Touret Memorial (Died at Givenchy)

1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry

 

Capt Harry Norman Lee Mentioned in Despatches

19.12.14 Neuve Chapelle Memorial (Died at La Bassee)

59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army

 

2nd Lieut Gerard Ribton Gore

19.12.14 Merville (Died of Wounds at Armentieres)

1st Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

(Age 21 - Gazetted 2nd Lieut on 8th December 1914)

 

Capt Jestyn Llewelyn Mansel (also ppears on the Caerleon memorial)

20.12.14 Le Touret Memorial

7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's)

 

Capt Oswald Pemberton

21.12.14 Le Touret Memorial (Died at Festubert)

1st Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers

 

2nd Lieut Edward Charles Walters

22.12.14 Festubert

3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

(Age 24)

 

Lieut Stuart Sheridan Norman

23.12.14 Le Touret Memorial (Died at Givenchy)

1st Battalion, Manchester Regt

 

Major John O'Hara Moore

28.12.14 Wimereux (Died of Wounds)

55th Field Company, Royal Engineers

 

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There must have been a book produced by the college in the ealy 1920's listing all those who served, and including obituaries of all those who died. I'm sure it would make fascinating reading.

 

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There's an interesting book by John Lewis-Stempel on the sacrifice of the young officers who left school or university to go to war ...

"As young lieutenants and captains in the front line of the 1914-18 war, they were the first to scramble over the top of their trenches into the rain of bullets from the well-defended German lines, setting an example to their men to follow.

The average life expectancy was just six weeks. In the first year one in seven of them were killed and one in five were wounded - by far the highest casualty rate in the war. About 33,000 officers were left disabled at the war’s end."

  

HMS Victory

 

Tools of the ship's doctor...

 

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

 

She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.

 

In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.

 

In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become HMS Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.

 

A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame. Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae. The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings. Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevit. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was launched on 7 May 1765, having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings, the equivalent of £7.92 million today

 

On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least ​9 1⁄2 inches too narrow. He told the dreadful news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through. However the launch itself revealed significant challenges in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be addressed. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.

 

Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway. Internal fitting out continued in a somewhat desultory manner over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778. Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.

 

Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m....Nelson...came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead...when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" - Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail - Log."

 

On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort. Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.

 

Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships. They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.

 

The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant. Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.

 

After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean. The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hrs and the order was given to form line of battle. On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept. Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid. At 0600 hrs, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards. At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine. He died at half past four. Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship. Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.

 

Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs. Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

 

In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.

 

In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.

 

Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation – a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".

 

HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die HMS Victory (engl.: Sieg) von 1765 ist das älteste im britischen Marinedienst befindliche Schiff. Bekanntheit erlangte die Victory als Flaggschiff von Vizeadmiral Nelson in der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar. Sie ist heute ein Museumsschiff in Portsmouth, dient aber auch dem Ersten Seelord für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die heute noch existierende Victory ist das sechste Schiff der Royal Navy, das diesen Namen trug.

 

1758 riefen die Minister König Georgs II. ein ehrgeiziges Projekt zum Bau von zwölf neuen Linienschiffen ins Leben. An der Spitze der Liste befand sich ein Schiff – zum damaligen Zeitpunkt noch ohne jeden Namen – vom 1. Rang mit über 100 Kanonen, das in Chatham zu bauen sei. Bereits für das folgende Jahr rechnete man mit der Kiellegung.

 

Das Jahr 1759 war das „Jahr der Siege“ für Großbritannien. Gemessen an militärischen Erfolgen war es der Höhepunkt des Siebenjährigen Krieges. Auf dem Land triumphierten britische Truppen und ihre Verbündeten in Surat (Indien), Minden und Québec. Zur See verzeichnete man die gewonnenen Schlachten bei Lagos und Quiberon. Aus der Euphorie um die Siege gab man dem Schiff den Namen Victory (englisch für Sieg). Der Entwurf der Victory stammte von Sir Thomas Slade. Er basierte auf dem der Royal George von 1756.

 

Die Victory wurde am 14. Juli 1759 in Auftrag gegeben und noch im selben Jahr, am 23. Juli 1759, legte man in einem Trockendock der Marinewerft in Chatham den Kiel, gefertigt aus Ulmenstämmen von bis zu 50,8 cm Durchmesser. Auf diesem wurden die Spanten errichtet und sowohl innen als auch außen beplankt, so dass ein „Dreischichtenrumpf“ (englisch „three-ply hull“) entstand. Für den Bau verantwortlich war John Lock, Schiffbaumeister auf der Marinewerft. Als dieser im Jahre 1762 starb, wurde Edward Allin sein Nachfolger. Am 30. Oktober 1760 wurde das Schiff als Victory in die Schiffsliste der britischen Royal Navy eingetragen.

 

Am 21. Oktober 1805 nahm die Victory unter Vizeadmiral Lord Nelson und Kapitän Thomas Masterman Hardy an der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar teil und fungierte hier als Flaggschiff. Dank des bis 1803 erfolgten Umbaus hatte das Schiff zu diesem Zeitpunkt 104 Kanonen an Bord.

 

Die Victory hatte dabei einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf die Schlacht.

 

Erfüllt von Geschichte und Marinetradition, wurde der Victory von Philip Watts der Titel „The Westminster Abbey of the Royal Navy“ verliehen. Sie dient auch heute noch dem Commander in Chief der Royal Navy für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die Victory kann man nach wie vor in Portsmouth besichtigen. Sie befindet sich in den Historic Dockyards in einem Trockendock und ist komplett vom Kielschwein bis zum Oberdeck begehbar – lediglich Admiralitätsmesse und Kapitänskajüte sind nur durch einen kleinen Durchgang zu besichtigen. In der Admiralitätsmesse ist eine originalgetreue Nachbildung der Uniform von Lord Nelson ausgestellt (das Original findet sich im Marinemuseum in Greenwich). Nur wenige der Geschütze an Bord sind echte Kanonen aus der damaligen Zeit (ca. 8 Stück, davon drei 32-Pfünder des unteren Kanonendecks). Der Rest wurde durch Geschützattrappen (z. B. auf dem Außendeck) ersetzt, um das Museumsschiff optisch aufzuwerten und um den Eindruck eines voll bestückten Kriegsschiffes zu gewährleisten. Die Verwendung von Attrappen hat aber auch statische Gründe, da durch die Trockenlegung die Tragkraft des Holzes nachgelassen hat. Würde das volle Gewicht der alten Kanonenzahl auf den Decks lasten, könnte es zu Schäden kommen. Die Takelage ist ebenfalls nicht vollständig. Nur die unteren Masten bis zum Eselshaupt sind aufgeriggt.

 

(Wikipedia)

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American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio tuned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

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HMS Victory

 

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

 

She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.

 

In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.

 

In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become HMS Victory. During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed. The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy. She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction. The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760. In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.

 

A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame. Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae. The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings. Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevit. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was launched on 7 May 1765, having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings, the equivalent of £7.92 million today

 

On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least ​9 1⁄2 inches too narrow. He told the dreadful news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through. However the launch itself revealed significant challenges in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be addressed. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.

 

Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway. Internal fitting out continued in a somewhat desultory manner over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778. Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.

 

Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m....Nelson...came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead...when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" - Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail - Log."

 

On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort. Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.

 

Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet. On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships. They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.

 

The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant. Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.

 

After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean. The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hrs and the order was given to form line of battle. On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept. Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid. At 0600 hrs, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards. At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine. He died at half past four. Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship. Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.

 

Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs. Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

 

In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.

 

In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.

 

Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation – a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".

 

HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Die HMS Victory (engl.: Sieg) von 1765 ist das älteste im britischen Marinedienst befindliche Schiff. Bekanntheit erlangte die Victory als Flaggschiff von Vizeadmiral Nelson in der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar. Sie ist heute ein Museumsschiff in Portsmouth, dient aber auch dem Ersten Seelord für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die heute noch existierende Victory ist das sechste Schiff der Royal Navy, das diesen Namen trug.

 

1758 riefen die Minister König Georgs II. ein ehrgeiziges Projekt zum Bau von zwölf neuen Linienschiffen ins Leben. An der Spitze der Liste befand sich ein Schiff – zum damaligen Zeitpunkt noch ohne jeden Namen – vom 1. Rang mit über 100 Kanonen, das in Chatham zu bauen sei. Bereits für das folgende Jahr rechnete man mit der Kiellegung.

 

Das Jahr 1759 war das „Jahr der Siege“ für Großbritannien. Gemessen an militärischen Erfolgen war es der Höhepunkt des Siebenjährigen Krieges. Auf dem Land triumphierten britische Truppen und ihre Verbündeten in Surat (Indien), Minden und Québec. Zur See verzeichnete man die gewonnenen Schlachten bei Lagos und Quiberon. Aus der Euphorie um die Siege gab man dem Schiff den Namen Victory (englisch für Sieg). Der Entwurf der Victory stammte von Sir Thomas Slade. Er basierte auf dem der Royal George von 1756.

 

Die Victory wurde am 14. Juli 1759 in Auftrag gegeben und noch im selben Jahr, am 23. Juli 1759, legte man in einem Trockendock der Marinewerft in Chatham den Kiel, gefertigt aus Ulmenstämmen von bis zu 50,8 cm Durchmesser. Auf diesem wurden die Spanten errichtet und sowohl innen als auch außen beplankt, so dass ein „Dreischichtenrumpf“ (englisch „three-ply hull“) entstand. Für den Bau verantwortlich war John Lock, Schiffbaumeister auf der Marinewerft. Als dieser im Jahre 1762 starb, wurde Edward Allin sein Nachfolger. Am 30. Oktober 1760 wurde das Schiff als Victory in die Schiffsliste der britischen Royal Navy eingetragen.

 

Am 21. Oktober 1805 nahm die Victory unter Vizeadmiral Lord Nelson und Kapitän Thomas Masterman Hardy an der Seeschlacht von Trafalgar teil und fungierte hier als Flaggschiff. Dank des bis 1803 erfolgten Umbaus hatte das Schiff zu diesem Zeitpunkt 104 Kanonen an Bord.

 

Die Victory hatte dabei einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf die Schlacht.

 

Erfüllt von Geschichte und Marinetradition, wurde der Victory von Philip Watts der Titel „The Westminster Abbey of the Royal Navy“ verliehen. Sie dient auch heute noch dem Commander in Chief der Royal Navy für offizielle Empfänge und Veranstaltungen.

 

Die Victory kann man nach wie vor in Portsmouth besichtigen. Sie befindet sich in den Historic Dockyards in einem Trockendock und ist komplett vom Kielschwein bis zum Oberdeck begehbar – lediglich Admiralitätsmesse und Kapitänskajüte sind nur durch einen kleinen Durchgang zu besichtigen. In der Admiralitätsmesse ist eine originalgetreue Nachbildung der Uniform von Lord Nelson ausgestellt (das Original findet sich im Marinemuseum in Greenwich). Nur wenige der Geschütze an Bord sind echte Kanonen aus der damaligen Zeit (ca. 8 Stück, davon drei 32-Pfünder des unteren Kanonendecks). Der Rest wurde durch Geschützattrappen (z. B. auf dem Außendeck) ersetzt, um das Museumsschiff optisch aufzuwerten und um den Eindruck eines voll bestückten Kriegsschiffes zu gewährleisten. Die Verwendung von Attrappen hat aber auch statische Gründe, da durch die Trockenlegung die Tragkraft des Holzes nachgelassen hat. Würde das volle Gewicht der alten Kanonenzahl auf den Decks lasten, könnte es zu Schäden kommen. Die Takelage ist ebenfalls nicht vollständig. Nur die unteren Masten bis zum Eselshaupt sind aufgeriggt.

 

(Wikipedia)

British postcard by Heroes Publishing Ltd., London, no SFC 3025.

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio turned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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Vintage postcard. Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996).

 

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics and period films. His role in the blockbuster Titanic (1998) cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. He became one of the biggest movie stars thanks to his films with the directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant (2015) as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

 

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, in 1974. He is the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix writer, publisher, and distributor of comic books. His parents separated when he was a year old. When his older stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, fascinated with this, decided to become an actor. At age 14, he began his career by appearing in television commercials such as for Matchbox cars by Mattel, which he considered his first role. In 1989, he played the role of Glen in two episodes of the television show The New Lassie. Leo played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood (1990-1991) based on the successful comedy film of the same name. He made his film debut as the stepson of an evil landlord in the low-budget horror direct-to-video film Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991). He was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones, 1993) with De Niro as his stepfather, and Ellen Barkin as his mother. In 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the intellectually disabled brother of Johnny Depp's character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993), a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family. The film became a critical success, earning DiCaprio a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. His next films were the Western film The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Sharon Stone, the biopic The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995) in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer, and the erotic drama Total Eclipse (Agnieszka Holland, 1995), a fictionalised account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernisation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. The project grossed $147 million worldwide and earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. DiCaprio then achieved international fame as a star in the epic romance Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), opposite Kate Winslet. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, eventually grossing more than $2.1 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. DiCaprio turned into a superstar, resulting in intense adoration among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania"

 

Leonardo DiCaprio played a self-mocking role in a small appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The film received mixed to negative response, but became a box office success, grossing $180 million internationally. DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Leonardo starred in two successful features in 2002. The first was the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002), based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who before his 19th birthday committed check fraud to make millions in the 1960s. The film received favourable reviews and was an international success, becoming DiCaprio's highest-grossing release since Titanic with a total of $351 million worldwide. The second was the historical drama Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) with Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. It marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Gangs of New York earned a total of $193 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews. DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), which DiCaprio also co-produced. In 2005, he was named the commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. DiCaprio was a mercenary in the political thriller Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006). He received acclaim for his role opposite Jack Nicholson in the crime drama The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006). Budgeted at $90 million, the film grossed $291 million and emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date. He reunited with Kate Winslet in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008). DiCaprio is the founder of Appian Way Productions—a production company that has produced some of his films and the documentary series Greensburg (2008–2010)—and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio continued to collaborate with Martin Scorsese in the psychological thriller film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was a commercial success, grossing $294 million worldwide. DiCaprio starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), in which he enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. DiCaprio earned $50 million from the film, becoming his highest payday yet. He was an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North (George Clooney, 2011) with Ryan Gosling. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, Django Unchained (2012). DiCaprio's next role was as the millionaire Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. That year he also starred in the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for securities fraud and money laundering. The film earned him a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture. DiCaprio was an executive producer on Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014), a British documentary film about four people fighting to protect the world's last mountain gorillas from war and poaching. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2015, DiCaprio produced and played fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant. Built on a budget of $135 million, the well-received film earned $533 million worldwide. The film earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor. For the next three years, DiCaprio narrated documentaries and served as a producer for films. DiCaprio returned to acting following a break of four years in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), opposite Brad Pitt. He received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film earned a total of $374 million against its $90-million budget. DiCaprio's personal life is the subject of widespread media attention. He rarely gives interviews and is reluctant to discuss his private life. Among his former girlfriends are Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, and German model Toni Garrn.

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

A calm spring afternoon and the Wood Duck is taking a bath. Apparently he had to wait until the Mallard was done with his bath. He really has the water drops flying!

 

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All apologies to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, but it actually is a dark and stormy night, with bouts of heavy rain still falling as what's left of Hurricane Sandy continues its march north. Even got a few big bursts of lightning around the house, although I was unfortunately never in a position to try and shoot it (happened mostly on my ride home, and it was mostly over before I got to a good vantage point.) We rode the storm out just fine: all the trees in the yard still standing, no water in the basement, and the closest we came to losing power was a few brief sessions of our lights flickering yesterday afternoon. Certainly nothing like the scenes that have been coming out of New York and New Jersey, and a lot less impact in my immediate area than from Irene last summer. I hope all my Flickr contacts in the path of the storm fared as well and stayed safe.

 

Admittedly, my selection of Tipsy Tuesday cocktail was driven more by the name than by my taste in drinks, not that I mind the occasional rum drink. This is a Dark N' Stormy, ginger beer and Gosling's Black Seal Rum on ice, with a slice of lime. I've always found this drink to be a bit curious, since the Gosling's folks hold a trademark on the name and hunt down people selling them but not using their rum. So far as I'm aware that isn't a common tactic in the world of mixed drinks.

 

Nikon D7000 w/Nikkor ƒ/1.8 50mm lens, 1/250s @ ƒ/4, ISO100. One SB-700 camera right and slightly behind, 85mm zoom, 1/8 power, firing through white umbrella. Second SB-700 camera left, 85mm zoom, 1/13 power, firing through white umbrella. Color processing in Aperture.

This Mallard kept talking to me as he swam across the pond.

 

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Sony Alpha α99 II

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This memorial has been compiled with additional information by kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and from Ancestry.co.uk

 

Winchcombe War Memorial, Gloucestershire.

To the glorious memory of the men from the parish of Winchcombe and Sudeley who fell in the Great War

 

BALLINGER Frederick Victor. Company Sergeant Major 13030, 9th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 25th April 1917. Born at Winchombe Gloucestershire, enlisted at Cheltenham and was killed at Serbia. His sister Lydia R was granted a war gratuity on the 15th November 1917, revised on the 20th October 1919. He was born in 1887 to ThomasFrederick and Elia Jane Lockyer, nee Reaford who in were living at Winey Street, Winchombe, Gloucestershire, in 1891 to 1911. Frederick, now called Victor in 1911 was a house painter and living with his brother, Thomas and his wife at The Lodge, Chipstead Place, Kent. Commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece.

 

BIRD Francis Clifford. 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd King's Shropshire Light Infantry, killed in action near St Eloi, Flanders 2nd March 1915 aged 19. Elder son of Francis and Mary of Cotswold, Winchombe, in the parish. Commemorated on a memorial tablet in St Michael and All Saints Church, Broadway, Worcestershire and is at rest in Voormezeele Enclosure No 3, Belgium.

 

BLANDFORD Thomas. Private 4511, 3/5th Gloucestershire Regiment, later private 202927, 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment. Born in 1898 at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, son of Thomas and Emma. He died in 17th December 1919 aged 21 at 9 Council Cottages, Winchcombe.

Some notes from what remains of his army record.

He joined up aged 17 and 2 months on the 15th August 1915 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire and posted into the army reserve the same day. He was living with his parents Thomas and Emma at Irely Road Green, Winchcombe. On the 1st September 1916 he was sent to the Depot of the 3/5th Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Force. On the 1st September 1916 he was posted again (to where, not recorded) He was sent to France on the 30th June 1917 and on the 20th July 1917 he was posted again possibly to join the 2/5th with a new army number 202927. While in action at the front he was reported missing between 21st and 31st March 1918. He was later found that he was alive but a prisoner of war with the Germans. He was wounded in his left eye on the 25th March 1918 before his capture, he lost the eye. After his repatriation, date not known he was medically discharged from the army with a permanent disability on the 5th April 1919 to his home at 9 Station Road, Winchombe.

 

BOLTON A. Not been able to find the correct record held by the CWGC (Boulton also checked)

 

BROWN Harry Horace Charles. Private 14907, D Coy, 1st Hampshire Regiment killed in action 22nd December 1916 aged 24. Son of George Thomas (Tom) and Emma Maria Brown, of Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His mother was granted a war gratuity on the 19th April 1917, revised on the 6th October 1919. At rest in Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

BUTLER Frank. Lance Corporal 11152, 8th Service Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 18th November 1916. Born at Winchcombe , enlisted at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Son of Ernest and Lilian of 27 Hailes Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His occupation in 1911 aged 13 was a gardener. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 30th March 1917, revised on the 7th October 1919. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

BUTCHER Arthur Lewis. Private 203075, 2/5th (Territorial) Gloucestershire Regiment died 21st March 1918. He was the son of George and Sarah Maria of (1911) Greet, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Occupation aged 13, working on a fruit plantation. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 31st May 1919. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

 

CARE Arthur. (Military Medal) Private 11206, 8th Gloucestershire Regiment died 11th April 1918 aged 28. Son of Charles and Julia Care, of 11, Gloucester Street., Winchcombe, Gloucestershire Regiment. At rest in Harlebeke New British Cemetery, Belgium.

 

CLEGG Arthur Wincel. Private 17170, 9th (Service Battalion) Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action at Salonika 3rd October 1916 aged 21. Son of Louisa Clegg, of Corner Cupboard, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He was born on the 3rd September 1895, to Louisa Clegg, single woman, baptised on the 21st February 1895 at Sudley Church, Gloucestershire. His mother was living at the Union Workhouse, Sudley she was also granted a war gratuity on the 11th January 1917, revised on the 14th October 1919. At rest in Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece.

 

CLEMENTS Arthur. Private 7460, 1st Gloucestershire Regiment died 4th November 1914 aged 26. Son of John and Emma of Vineyard Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, husband of Elizabeth Clements, of 262, High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

COMFORT Arthur Edward. Acting Leading Stoker K/7574, H.M.S. Dublin, Royal Navy died 8th January 1916 aged 23 of pneumonia. Born on the 21st February 1892 to Elijah and Louisa of 5 Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. When he was baptised on the 21st May 1892 at St Luke's Church, Cheltenham his parents were living at Naunton Terrace, Cheltenham, his father was working as a porter. He enlisted on the 22nd July 1910 for a period of 12 years, occupation gardener. His first ship was H.M.S Vivid II, last ship was H.M.S Dublin.

At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

CONN Reginald William. Sergeant 29725, 1st Worcestershire Regiment died 14th October 1918 aged 19. Son of William and Martha Conn, of North St., Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. At rest in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.

 

CURTIS Norman Debuffe killed in action 25th October 1918 aged 34. Son of Edith Jane and William Decuffe Curtis. Commemorated on his parents memorial in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire

 

DAVIS (Memorial has DAVIES) Frederick. Private 21499, 4th Worcestershire Regiment killed in action 6th August 1915 at Gallipoli.

Husband of Frances Annie Watford (formerly Davis, nee Hart), of 19, Wain Fach Street., Caerphilly, Cardiff. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Belgium.

 

DAVIES Lloyd. Private 16568, 2nd Field Company, Royal Engineers killed in action 10th March 1915. He was born on the 19 March 1887 at Winchcombe to Lydia Ballinger Davies, single woman living at Winchcombe. He was baptised on the 24th April 1887 at Winchcombe Church. He was living with his mother at his grandparents home in 1901, William Edward and Mary Davies, Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. 1911 he was a boarder at 2 Riland Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire the home of William Henry Higgs and his wife. His occupation, an electrician. Husband of Margaret Davies, of 6, Museum Road, Oxford. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France

Some notes from what remains of his army records.

He joined the Royal Engineers on the 13th June 1907 aged 20 and 3 months and given the rank of private 16568. He was living at Winchcombe and his occupation, carpenter and joiner. He had previously served with the 1st Glosters Royal Engineers Volunteers. On the 13th June 1910 he was transferred to the army reserve. His period of engagement had expired. He got married on the 14th January 1913 to Marguerite Collins at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire.

On the 7th August 1914 he was mobilized and posted to the Royal Engineers Depot at Chatham, as Sapper 16568. After he had finished his training he was posted to France on the 6th November 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chappelle on the 10th March 1915. His wife lived at The Three Gables, Winchcombe and 9 Coleshill Street, Sutton Coldfield. His next of kin were given as father, William Edward, mother Mary, and his correct mother Lydia and her siblings.

 

DEAKIN Robert Hartley. Lieutenant 10th Jats, (Indian Infantry Regiment) attached to 45th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps died 22nd July 1917 aged 22. Born in India in 1895 to William Robert and Mary Jane Deakin, of Norton Hall, Worcester. Gazetted to Indian Army from Sandhurst. Scholar of Cheltenham Grammar School. Captain of his house. Undergraduate at Jesus College, Oxford. Commemorated on the Arras Flying Service Memorial, France.

www.deakin.broadwaymanor.co.uk/deakin/robert-hartley-deak...

 

DOUGHTY Harry Cecil. Sapper 203107, 2/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment died of wounds 1st September 1917 aged 30. Son of John William and Emily Curtis, nee Gardner of (1901) Didbrook, Gloucestershire. In 1911 he was living with his wife Bertha, nee Nash at Gretton, near Winchcombe, occupation, general labourer. At rest in

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium

 

DYDE Alfred . Guardsman 15877 Grenadier Guards died 28th December 1918 aged 24 at the Cottage Hospital, Winchcombe. He was the son of Charles William and Harriett Matilda of Gretton Road, Winchcombe. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 19th May 1920. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire.

 

DYDE Charles. Lance Sergeant 15240, Royal Berkshire Regiment died of wounds 14th April 1918 in France. Born at Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire. His widow, Lily, was granted a war gratuity on the 20th June 1918, revised on the 20th December 1919.

 

EVANS Frederick James. Lance Corporal 8573, 2nd Worcestershire Regiment killed in action 24th October 1914. Born at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, lived at Manchester, enlisted at Worcester. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

EVANS R C (may be the following) Charles Robert, Private 15319, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action 8th October 1917. Born at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, enlisted at Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

Son of William who was granted a war gratuity on the 25th February 1918, revised on the 13th November 1919. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

FISHER W It may be William Ernest. Private 203547, 1/4th Wiltshire Regiment, formerly 290423 Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action in Egypt, 10th May 1918. Born , lived in Cheltenham, enlisted at Horfield, Bristol.

 

FRY Albert George. Killed in the Dardanelles 8 August 1915, 32. Son of William and Elizabeth. Commemorated on his parents memorial in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire. Check, Edward James, s, 7 February 1919, 37

 

FRY W. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC

 

GARNER Charles. Killed in action October 1918 aged 22. Son of Charles and Annie. Commemorated on his parents memorial in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire

 

GILES Arthur. Sapper 138612, 118th Railway Company, Royal Engineers, killed in action 21st July 1916. Born at Kingham, Oxford, enlisted at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Son of Thomas and Maria Giles, of Daylesford, near Chipping Norton, Oxford. His widow, Edith Mary was granted a war gratuity on the 6th October 1916, revised on the 19th September 1919. In 1909 he was married to Edith Mary Stephens at Winchcombe. In 1911 he was living with his wife and daughter and mother in law, Emma Stephens at Greet, Winchcombe, occupation, railway porter. At rest in Calais Southern Cemetery, France

 

GOODALL F. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC .

There was a Fred Goodall, born in 1898 at Winchcombe, to Frank and Mary living with his parents at Hailes Street, Winchcombe, in 1901 and 1911. No H.M.Forces connection could be made.

 

GREENING Arthur. Quartermaster Sergeant, Farrier,

Royal Horse Artillery. Served with honour, and was disabled in the Great War 1914, Died 15 Aug 1922, 42. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

 

GREENING Leonard George. Private PLY/1258(S) 2nd Royal Marine Light Infantry died 28th April 1917 aged 19. Son of Thomas and Edith Greening, of Bull Lane, Winchcombe, Glos.

 

HACKMAN Clifford. 2nd Lieutenant, 92 Squadron Royal Air Force died 7th April 1918 aged 20. Son of Edwin F. and Mary Hackman, of 73A, Hythe Road, Swindon, Wiltshire. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

HALL E. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC

 

HALL Frank Leslie. Corporal 96636, 156th Field Coy, Royal Engineers died 4th March 1917 aged 20. Son of Alfred Lee and Elizabeth Hall, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He had a brother, Edgar Lee, but he was not in the army he died on the 31st October 1918, occupation, bank agent. At rest in Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

HENNEY Charles died on service In Ireland as Corporal Mechanic 247684, R.A.F. 14 August 1921 aged 21 Born on the 1st June 1900 to Joseph and Dorcas Eliza nee Kettel and grandson of Charles Townshend Henney and Lucy of Postlip Mill. In 1901 he was living with his parents at Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, In 1911 he was living with his parents at Postlip Cottages, Winchcombe. On the 24th January 1918 he joined the Royal Navy as ?? F47684 for a period of 4 years. His first ship was HMS President II, Shore Base, next and last ship was H.M.S. Tregantle RNAS training base. His occupation on enlistment was a motor mechanic. He is commemorated on his grandparents memorial in Winchombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire and is at rest in Bohermore New Cemetery, Galway

 

HOLDER Sidney Charles. Private 15254, 16th Lancashire Fusiliers killed in action 10th March 1916 aged 26. Son of George Jeans and Annie Elizabeth Holder, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His sister, Elsie Kate was granted a war gratuity on the 12th May 1916, revised on the 28th August 1919. At rest in Authuile Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

HOLMES Alwyn Robert. Private 240363, 1/5th Gloucestershire Regiment died 6th August 1917 aged 21. Born at Winchombe to John and Florence Kate. Holmes, of Raymeadow Cottages, Dumbleton, Evesham, Worcestershire, formerly of Gretton Road, Winchcombe. At rest in New British Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

 

HUMPHRIES A. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC

 

JACKSON Richard. Sergeant 8391, 1st Worcestershire Regiment died 14th March 1915. Son of George and Jane Jackson, of Castle Street., Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.

 

JEFFRIES George Henry . Private 241627,2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 22nd August 1917. Born 17th March 1888 in Winchcombe, enlisted at Cheltenham, both in Gloucestershire. Son of William and Emma Jane, of Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

JONES Ernest James. Lance Corporal 139636, 12th Field Coy, Royal Engineers died 21st April 1918 aged 33. Husband of Mrs. E. Johnston (formerly Jones), of Gretton Rd., Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. At rest in Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Belgium.

 

KING T (May be this person) Thomas. Private G24660, 7th West Kent Regiment, formerly Private 25230, Somerset Light Infantry killed in action 13th July 1917. Born and enlisted in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He was the son of John and Emily of Leckhampton, Gloucestershire He was married on the 10th May 1910 at St James Church, Cheltenham , to Ethel Maud Onion aged 19, labourer of 17 Commercial Street, Cheltenham. She was aged 20 and living at the same adddress. Her father was called George Henry. In 1911 he was living with his wife and daughter, Violet aged 3 months at 10 Exmouth Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, occupation, brick maker. At rest in China Wall , Perth Cemetery, Belgium.

 

LAFFORD F (Only one L Lafford listed with the CWGC) Private 27801 Frederick Charles LAFFORD. 16th Royal Warwickshire Regiment , formerly 24767 Shropshire Light Infantry died of wounds 10th April 1917 aged 25. He was born in 1894 at Ross Hereford to Charles and Elizabeth . In 1901 he was living with his parents at 52 Over Ross Street, Ross, Herefordshire. His mother remarried and was

Elizabeth Bishop, formerly Lafford. of 10, Brookend Street., Ross, Herefordshire. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

OR this person) Private 2096, John Lafford, 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 25th September 1916. Born at Quenington, enlisted at Winchcombe, both in Gloucestershire. Son of Sarah J who was granted a war gratuity on the 12th May 1917, revised on the 15th October 1919. He is at rest in Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France.

 

LAUNCHBURY James Frederick. Private G/24624, 7th Royal West Kent Regiment, formerly 4591, Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 8th August 1917. His widow, Ellen, was granted a war gratuity on the 10th January 1918, revised on the 20th February 1920, Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

LANE Henry Frederick. Private 25741, 14th Worcestershire Regiment died at home on the 29th June 1917. Born and lived in Winchcombe, enlisted at Tewkesbury, all in Gloucestershire.

 

MAJOR Arthur. Private 11386, 7th Gloucestershire Regiment died 8th August 1915 aged 22. He was born at Winchcombe on the 3rd February 1893 to Charles and Sarah Ann Major, of 94, Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, Glos. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli)

 

MAJOR Edwin John. Corporal 11199, 7th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds 11th August 1915 aged 22. Son of John and Emma Major, of 68, Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His mother was granted a war gratuity on the 24th November 1916, revised on the 21st August 1919. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli)

 

MARTIN A. It may be Alfred Henry, Gunner 17932 Royal Field Artillery, 159 Brigade died of wounds at 3rd General Hospital, France, 6th July 1918.

Son of Henry Edward and Harriek Martin, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Husband of Florence who was granted a war gratuity on the 25th September 1918, revised on the 11th October 1918 and 24th December 1919. At rest in Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France

 

MINCHIN Thomas Henry. Private 23289, 1/4th formerly the 10th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds on the 24th July 1916. Born in Winchcombe, enlisted at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Born on the 16th December 1886 to Thomas and Annie. In 1911 he was living with his parents at Hailes Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, occupation, farm labourer. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 21st November 1916, revised on the 10th September 1919. At rest in Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France

 

OAKEY Walter George. Private, PLY/1256(S) 2nd Royal Marine Light Infantry died 28th April 1917 aged 22. Born on the 27th October 1893 at Winchcombe to William Thomas and Louisa Jane Oakey, of 52, Hailes Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

 

PARKER W It may be the following. William James Maisey. Private 10302, 7th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action at Gallipoli 26th July 1915 aged 23. Son william Masey and Laura Parker, (nee King), of 118, High Street, Tewkesbury, husband of Rosaline Parker, of 48, Waterloo Street, Cheltenham. His wife was granted a war gratuity on the 27th October 1915, revised on the 12th July 1919 now called Mrs Rosaline Craynor. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli)

 

PEACEY Howard George. Sergeant 2100, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry. killed in action 23rd April 1916. Born in 1889 at Charlton Kings Gloucestershire to Frederick John and Kate of (1911) Manor Farm, Greet, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Occupation aged 22, assistant farmer to his father. Commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

 

PEARCE C H. It may be the following. Private 111116, Charles Henry Willy PEARCE. 7th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action at Mesopotamia on the 10th February 1917. Son of Joseph Walter and Salbrah Edith Pearce, of Cheltenham. His sister Salinah Shelton Pearce was granted a war gratuity on the 5th July 1917. At rest in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

 

PRICE George. Private 240391 Gloucestershire Regiment died 21st October 1920 aged 23. Son of Charles Henry and Annie Elizabeth, ne Ballinger l of 64, Gloucester Street., Winchcombe. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

RACHAEL Albert Victor. Private 3rd Wiltshire Regiment died 25th February 1919. Son of Philip and Georgina Maria West. In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at Wyck Hill, near Bourton -on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

Also his brother (not on the memorial)

Lance Corporal 14441 Ernest Edward RACHAEL 10th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died of wounds, 3 July 1916, 24. Son of Philip and Georgina Maria West. In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at Wyck Hill, near Bourton -on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

Commemorated on his brother's memorial in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire, also on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

RESTALL Sidney Edward. Private 16416, 12th Gloucestershire Regiment died 3rd September 1916 aged 23. Son of William and Mary Ann of Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. Husband of Annie Restall, of 50, Hailes Street, Winchcombe, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

RICHINGS Tom. Private 26042, 10th Durham Light Infantry, formerly 15359, Hussars killed in action 7th April 1916. Born on the 3rd December 1892 at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire to Tom and Mary Ann of Footbridge, Winchcombe. In 1911 he was living with his parents at Bull Lane, Winchcombe, occupation, factory hand. He was married on the 20th December 1914 to Annie Jeffries at Winchcombe Parish Church, Gloucestershire. He was aged 21, soldier, living at Winchcombe. Annie was aged 26, daughter of James Jeffries, deceased at the time of the wedding. His wife also lived at Bull Lane, Winchcombe. He is at rest in Agny Military Cemetery, France.

 

SEABRIGHT John Franklin. Sergeant 7409, 10th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds 1st October 1915. He was born on the 22nd April 1886 to William and Elisabeth of Winchcombe. In 1911 he was serving with 1st Gloucestershire Regiment at Cambridge Barracks, Portsmouth. At rest in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.

 

SHILLUM Edwin Thomas . Private 17313, 9th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 27th October 1918. Born in 1899 to Edwin Frank and Annie of Stanway Grounds Stanway, Gloucestershire. In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at Wineyard Street, Winchcombe. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 20th March 1919, revised on the 11th December 1919. At rest in Le Cateau Military Cemetery, France.

 

SMITH Alfred Thomas. Private 8/106 Otago Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force died between 6 and 7th August 1915 aged 28. Son of Thomas and Sarah Smith, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the New Zealand Memorial, Chunuk Bair, Turkey (including Gallipoli)

Some notes from his army records.

He joined up on the 13th August 1914 aged 27, occupation Mental Hospital attendant at Seacliff, New Zealand. He had previously served 5 years with the 5th Gloucestershire Territorials, discharged to go to New Zealand. His next of kin was his brother George E Smith of Lower Guiting, North, Gloucestershire, formerly of 20 Vauxhall Street, Gloucester City. He embarked from New Zealand on the 15th October 1914, disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt on the 3rd December 1914. Presumed killed in action at the Dardanelles between the 6th and 7th August 1916. He had a brother Harry was serving as Sergeant 67707, 127th Field Coy, Royal Engineers, 22nd Division, B.E.F.

 

SPRINGFIELD Thomas Osborn. Corporal 1927, 1/1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars died 14th May 1916. Born in 1892 Peckham, London lived at Winchcombe. Son of Thomas Osborne and Alice Eliza of(1911) 113 Landseer Avenue, Manor Park, West Ham, Essex. At rest in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

 

STEPHENS Edgar William. Sergeant 13631, 10th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 20th April 1916 aged 24, born at Hailes, Gloucestershire to Mrs. Ellen Maria Stephens, (nee James) of 4, Horsefair Street, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire. Born at Gretton, Gloucestershire. In 1901 he was living with his parents William Job and Ellen Maria and siblings at Winchcombe. In 1911 he was boarder at the home of James and Elizabeth Ruck, Newtown, Toddington, near Winchcombe, occupation, railway porter. At rest in St Patrick's Cemetery, Loos, France. His brother, Job, also fell, in 1917.

 

STEPHENS Job. Private 25742, 14th Worcestershire Regiment killed in action 3rd September 1917. In 1901 he was living with his parents William Job and Ellen Maria and siblings at Winchcombe. In 1911 he was living with his brother, Jesse, at Gretton Field, Winchcombe. He was a grocers errand boy, aged 13. At the time or near to his death his mother was now living at 4, Providence Place, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, his father was deceased. His brother Thomas also fell, in 1916.

 

STEWART Ernest Henry. Private 13496, 10th Gloucestershire Regiment, killed in action 13th October 1915. Born on the 26th May 1885 to Charles and Mary Ann, (nee Newitt) at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. In 1901 he was living with his parents and siblings at Cheltenham Road, Winchcombe. 1911 he was now a boarder at the home of John and Annie Waterhouse of 33 Grange Road, Frindsbury, Rochester, Strood, Kent. Working for the government in a magazine department. He was married on the 27th February 1915 to Hilda Mary Hopkins at St John's Church, Cheltenham. He was aged 29, private with the 5th Glosters, home address Lansdown Crescent Cheltenham. She was aged 23, spinster, living at Sydenham Road, Cheltenham, daughter of Alfred John Hopkins. His widow was granted a war gratuity on the 23rd October 1916, revised on the 15th September 1919, now Mrs Hilda Mary Wilko. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

STYLES W. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC. (Stiles also checked)

 

TAYLOR George William. Gunner 82301,177th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery killed in action 11th October 1916. Born at Holt, Worcestershire, lived at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Husband of Alice Gertrude Taylor, (nee Hawker), of Old Road, Hartpury, Gloucestershire. His widow was granted a war gratuity on the 16th April 1917, revised on the 20th September 1919. At rest in Bienvillers Military Cemetery, France.

 

TOWNSEND Edward James. Private 201999, 1/4th (City of Bristol Battalion) Gloucestershire Regiment died 13th April 1917. Born in 1881 to James and Matilda A Townsend, (nee Williams of Chapel Lane, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. In 1911 he was employed as a groom. His mother was granted a war gratuity on the 25th October 1917, revised on the 27th November 1919. At rest in Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

TOWNSEND C It may be, Charles Sidney. Lance Corporal WR/253954, 119th Railway Company, Royal Engineers died 25th October 1918. At rest in Tincourt New British Cemetery, Somme, France

Some notes from what remains of his army records

Son of James and Mary Eliza of Hereford House, Leckhampton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He was married to Glady Eve Grubb on the 25th December 1915 at St Philips Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Joined up on the 19th January 1916 aged 23 and 11 months at Railway Troops Depot, Royal Engineers, Longmoor , occupation, carpenter. later posted to the His wife was his next of kin of Hereford House, Suffolk Street, Leckhampton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He embarked for the British Expeditionary Force, France on the 30th May 1916 and posted to the 119th Railway Coy, Royal Engineers . He was promoted to Lance Corporal in the field on the 11th August 1917. On the 25th October 1918 he died at the 58th Casualty Clearing Station, France from Broncho Pneumonia

 

TRIPP Hubert Charles. Sergeant 17260, 8th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds 14th June 1918 aged 21. Born at Bibury, Gloucestershire to George William and Rachel Tripp, of Culls Meadow, Toddington, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, France.

 

TUSTIN George. Able Seaman R/584, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Navy, reported missing, body found and exhumed. He was identified by a cap badge and two numerals. Presumed died 16th July 1917 aged 29. Born on the 26th April 1886 to John Tustin and Lucy of (1891) Gloucester Street, Winchcombe.

Husband of Annie Elizabeth Tustin,(nee Barrett) of Chandos Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He enlisted up on the 15th April 1917, joined Hood Battalion on the 5th June 1917. Son of John Tustin and Lucy nee Tustin of (1891) Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. His next of kin was his wife, Annie Elizabeth of Bull Lane, Winchcombe, occupation timber haulier. At rest in Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-En-Gohelle, France.

 

WASLEY Tom. Private 24454, 1st Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 28th April 1916 aged 16. He was born on the 31st January 1900 at Winchcombe to Charles Henry and Ellen Wasley, (nee Smith). Baptised on the 27th May 1900 at Winchcombe Church. In 1901 - 1911 they were all living at Gretton Road, Winchcombe. At rest in St Patrick's Cemetery, Loos, France

 

WHITTINGHAM Albert Edward. Private 13404, 8th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action on the 3rd July 1916. Son of Elizabeth who was granted a war gratuity on the 18th January 1917, revised on the 1st September 1919, now Mrs Elizabeth Follett Born at Plymouth, Devon, enlisted at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He was granted a war gratuity on the 24th March 1915 on the death of his brother Frederick. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

 

WHITTINGHAM Frederick. Drummer L/8356 Royal West Surrey Regiment killed in action 1st November 1914 aged 23. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Follett, (formerly Whittingham) of Sidney Lodge, Overton Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Born at Plymouth, Devon, lived in Cheltenham, He enlisted at Plymouth on the 8th April 1905, occupation, messanger. His mother, brother's William and Albert Edward (he fell in 1916) sisters, Elizabeth and Kate, were all granted a war gratuity on the 24th March 1915. Only his mother had her gratuity revised on the 23th July 1919, Now Mrs Elizabeth Tollett, wife of Walter James Follett Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

WHITE Walter James. Private 9970, 4th Worcestershire Regiment killed in action at Gallipoli on the 6th August 1915. Born at Aston Magna, Worcestershire, lived at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire and enlisted at Evesham, Worcestershire. Son of John and Sarah of (1901) Ridon Lane, Charlton, Worcestershire. In 1911 he was serving with the 4th Worcestershire Regiment stationed in India. On the 6th September 1913 he was married to Fanny Broad Gosling at Winchcombe Church, Gloucestershire. He was aged 26, occupation, labourer and he was living at Syde near Cheltenham. She was aged 30, spinster, domestic servant, living at Langley Cottage, Winchcombe, father, James. His widow, Fanny Broad, nee Gosling was granted a war gratuity on the 2nd June 1916, revised on the 18th August 1919. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli).

 

WILLETT William John. Rifleman 47608, 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, formerly T4/035788 Army Service Corps died 24th March 1918 aged 24. Son of Joseph Thomas and Hannah E. Willett, of 11, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

 

WOODWARD Hubert Grove. Corporal 19985, 25th Machine Gun Corps, (Infantry), formerly 11986, Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 23rd October 1918 aged 27. Born in 1892 at Barton Regis, Bristol, Gloucestershire to Hubert Densham and Louisa Woodward , Nee Grove of (1901) North Street, Winchcombe.Husband of May Woodward, nee Balmond of John Street, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.

(Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at Catherine Villas, 21 Beach Road, Bedminster, Bristol. Corporal with the Machine Gun Corps died 23rd October 1918. His effects went to his wife. At rest in Pommereuil British Cemetery, France

 

YIEND James Henry Edward. Private 241291, 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds 3rd June 1918, 25.Son of Albert Andrew and Margaret Yiend of (1891) Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. In 1911 his mother was now a widow and still living in Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. Later at 7, Seagrave Place, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. James was living with his aunt and uncle, Henry Frederick and Emma Elizabeth Yiend at 24 Albert Street, St Pauls, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, occupation aged 18, commercial clerk. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

  

To the glorious memory of those who fell in the Second World War

1939 - 1945 whose names are inscribed below.

 

BARTLETT William. Sapper 5186073, 6th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers died 28th October 1942 aged 27. Son of Rose Bartlett, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, He was married in 1935 at Winchcombe Methodist Chapel, to Dorothy Beryl Davis. of Winchcombe. At rest in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.

 

CARTER A (It may be the following. Arthur Kitchener. Private 6096614 4th The Buffs, Est Kent Regiment died between 23rd and 24th October 1943 aged 28. Son of Arthur and Annie Carter, nee Colston of Gloucester. Commemorated on the Athens Memorial, Greece,

 

COOPER Geoffrey Edmund. Flight Sergeant 613902, 228 Squadron, Royal Air Force died 25th April 1941 aged 21. Born in 1919 at Winchcombe, to George and Annie Priscilla Cooper, nee Durham of Kingham, Oxfordshire. Commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt.

 

COOPER Samuel George. Pilot Officer, Pilot 42301, 80 Squadron, Royal Air Force died 19th December 1940 aged 24. Born 1916 at Winchcombe, to George and Annie Priscilla Cooper, nee Durham of Nether Westcote, Kingham, Oxfordshire. At rest in Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece.

 

EVANS F J. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC.

 

EVANS R C. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC.

 

FORTY Mowbray Ronald. Sergeant Wireless Operator 927159, 12th Squadron, Royal Air Force died 22nd October 1941 aged 23. Son of Charles and Edith Ellen, nee Neale. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

MARSH Arthur. Lance Corporal 7364329, Royal Army Medical Corps died 16th March 1946 aged 27. Husband of Barbara Mary Marsh, of Winchcombe. (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at 8 Cheltenham Road, Winchcombe and died at the City General Hospital, Gloucester City. His effects went to his wife. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

MASON Robert Edward. Pilot Officer, Air Bomber, 100 Squadron, Royal Air Force (VR) died 16th December 1943 aged 21. Son of Edward Parr Mason and Ruth Mason, of Winchcombe. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

MUIR Ian Kay. Lieutenant 69084, 10th Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, died on Monday 27th May 1940 aged 23. Born in 1916 at Marylebone, London to Mathew William and Clara Gardner Muir. (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at Lynes House, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire. His effects went Gillian Rachel Williams, wife of Evan Morgan Williams. At rest in Hodeng-Au-Bosc Communal Cemetery, France.

www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org/Servicemen/Detail/23222

 

NOLAN William. Sergeant 3766982, 5th Liverpool Regiment died 12th February 1941 aged 24. Son of John and Mary Nolan, of Dublin, Irish Republic, husband of Mary Nolan, of Dublin. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. (IRISH SITE)

 

PUMPHREY Maurice John. Leading Aircraftman, Pilot, under training, Royal Air Force (VR) died 29th September 1940 aged 21 as the result of and accident. Son of George and Alice May Pumphrey, of Winchcombe. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

 

ROGERS P H There are only two P.H.Rogers listed with the CWGC, neither with an obvious connection to Winchcombe and surrounds and Gloucestershire.

Pilot Officer, Observer 107914, Patrick Heron Thorold Rogers. 86 squadron, Royal Air Force (VR) died 12th March 1942 aged 31. He was born and lived in London.

 

Trooper 7948809, Peter Henry Gordon Rogers. 3rd Carabiniers, (Dragoon Guards) died 6th May 1945 aged 22. Son of Martin G. Rogers and Gladys Florence Rogers, of Ilford, Essex. At rest in Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma.

 

SMITH Cyril Woodyear. Leading Aircraftman 1394906, Royal Air Force (VR) died 9th April 1943 aged 28. Son of Arthur Victor Woodyear Smith and Aileen Smith, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. At rest in Red Deer Cemetery, Alberta, Canada.

 

SLATTER Dudley Malins. Pilot Officer 44597, 141 Squadron, Royal Air Force died 19th July 1940 aged 26. He was born in 1914 in Gloucester to Wilfred Thomas Slatter, and of Valletta Matilda Slatter, (nee Brinkworth) of Southsea, Hampshire. His parents were married at St Michael's Church, Gloucester City in 1910. His father died on the 30th November 1949, home address was 52 Festing Grove Southsea. (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at 38 High Street, Emsworth, Hampshire. His effects went to Ronald Arthur Orchard, solicitor. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey

 

SODEN G S. No J S listed with the CWGC . It is the following

Frank Graham SODEN , Lieutenant, Army in Burma Reserve of Officers died in Burma 18th May 1942. Born in 1915 at Pancras, London to Wilfred Scovil Soden and Dorothy Maud Soden, nee Graham. (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He was living/serving at Bhamo, Burma and died 18th May 1942 on war service. His effects went to his mother, widow.

At rest in Imphal War Cemetery, India

 

SODEN Ivan Scovil. D.S.O. Flight Lieutenant, Pilot 33289, 56 Squadron, Royal Air Force died 18th May 1940 aged 23. Son of Wilfred Scovil Soden and Dorothy Maud Soden, of Combe Down, Bath, Somerset. Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at Irwell Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His effects went to his mother, Dorothy Maud Soden, nee Graham. His father served as Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in Egypt 7th February 1917. Retired from the army on the 25th June 1921, his medals were sent to him at Tudor House, Winchcombe.

At rest in Biache-St Vaast Communal Cemetery, France.

 

SODEN J S. No J S listed with the CWGC It is the following.

Flight Lieutenant 42903, John Flewelling Soden, Royal Air Force. Died 12th September 1942. Born in 1921 at Winchcombe to Wilfred Scovil Soden and Dorothy Maud Soden, nee Graham. Commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt.

Short extract from the book. Men of the Battle of Britain

He joined the RAF as pupil pilot on the 14th August 1939. He was killed at sea on the 16th September 1942 while on troop ship SS Laconia which was sunk by U-Boat U.156.

www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Soden.htm

 

STRATFORD Henry James. Private 4919937, Pioneer Corps, died 29th May 1943 aged 27.Born in 1916 at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire to James Pittman Stratford and Rose Elizabeth Stratford, (nee Hall, of Coventry. At rest in Moascar War Cemetery, Egypt.

 

THOMAS E It may be the following. Private 14757680, Eric Thomas, 1/5th Welch Regiment died 14th April 1945 aged 18. Son of Wallace Ivor and Matilda Frances Thomas, of Upton, St. Leonards, Gloucestershire. At rest in Becklinghem War Cemetery, Germany.

 

WASLEY Edward Thomas George. Lance Corporal 11254950, 1st East Surrey Regiment died 20th April 1945 aged 23. Son of Edward and Ethel May Wasley, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. At rest in Argenta Gap War Cemetery, Italy

 

WEBBER Hubert Edward. Sergeant 7891890, A Squadron, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps died 8th Augusy 1944 aged 24. Son of Joseph Marshall Webber and Gertrude Maud Webber, of Winchcombe. Gloucestershire. At rest in Bayeux War Cemetery, France.

 

WIGGETT John. Gunner 14303415, 91st Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, attached to 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders died 26th November 1944 aged 20. He may have been the son of Harold Jim and Grace Elizabeth, nee Oakey of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. There is a John Wiggett born in 1924 at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. At rest in Mierlo War Cemetery, Netherlands.

 

SINCE 1945

 

LANCHBURY John Edward. Private 22988102, Gloucestershire Regiment. Born 27th December 1933, died 9th May 1955 Died in the Mau Mau Uprising , Kenya. Son of Alfred Edward Lanchbury and Norah Alice nee Seabright of Winchcombe. His father died 2nd March 1956. He was living at 65, Abbotts Leys Road, Winchcombe

 

Army Death, Northern Ireland

Lance Corporal 24078868 Ian Roy BRAMLEY 1st Gloucestershire Regiment, 28th 61st of Foot, killed by a sniper at the barrier on the 1 February 1972, 25 at Hastings Street, Belfast At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire.

 

BRIDGES Oliver Alfred Maynard. Stoker Mechanic, SKX 832096 Royal Navy on H.M.Submarine Affray. Born 26th May 1929 died 19th April 1951 aged 21. Born in Edmonton, Middlesex to Alfred Henry and Dorothy Sarah H Maynard of Edmonton.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Affray_(P421)

 

CLEMENT-HUNT Roger Timothy P. Sergeant 24686779, Royal Logistic Corps . Born 21st July 1968 died 8th March 2001 aged 32. at rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe

  

I have never figured out how a little Wood Duck female can have so many goslings. Here mamma is taking raising eight goslings and she will have a full time job for the next several weeks. Come fall and if these guys survive nature's danger they will be on their own. One thing about a Wood Duck family is they are fast to cover when someone approaches.

 

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found at the foot of the church tower (all that's left of the church) in the centre of the town.

 

Haven't found anything much about this memorial (or the old church) yet.

 

Why the need for a new memorial?

Where was the old one?

 

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‘In perpetual remembrance of those citizens of Coleford and District who served their country in time of war and who made the “Supreme Sacrifice”

 

The Great War 1914-1918’

 

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R. I. P.

 

Fitter Corp 149164 Frederick Percy Adams (possible match)

25.03.18 Arras Memorial

1/1st 'K' Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

(previously Pte 16186 Gloucester Regiment)

 

Pte PO/2071 (S)William Ebborn Ambury (probable match)

14.07.18 Valenciennes

1st Royal Marine Battalion, R.N. Division, R.M. Light Infantry

See Ancestry - Source: Ian Watkins for William Ambury, son of Albert Ambury and Jane Ebborn. W. Ambury said to have died of disease while a Prisoner of War.

 

Pte 34799 Thomas Henry Aston (possible match)

11.04.18 Harlebeke

10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regt

 

James Barnett

 

William Edmund Barnett

 

Colin Eric Baumgarte

 

George Baynham

 

Arthur Stanley Bayton

 

Sapper 387396 Harry Benfield

20.02.19 Coleford

Royal Monmouthsire, Royal Engineers

 

Pte 37972 Roy Benfield

17.04.18 Loos Memorial

1/5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

 

George Rowland Bennett

 

Joseph Biggs

 

Sgt 8440 Thomas George Birch M.M.

11.11.17 Dozinghem, nr Poperinge

‘C’ Company, 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

George Blanch

 

Sydney F. Bond

 

Trooper 2465 Ernest James (Laddie) Brouard

09.01.17 Kantara Memorial, Egypt

1/1st Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars

 

Charles Terrett Brown

 

Pte 26547 Thomas Henry Brown

09.09.16 Thiepval

‘C’ Company, 10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Pte 20498 Sidney Burrows

08.01.16 Helles Memorial

7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Victor Butler

 

Pte PLY/2366 (S) Albert Joseph Capel

26.03.18 Puchevillers, nr Amiens

1st Royal Marine Battalion, R.N. Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry

 

Pte 14672 Oliver Charles

27.09.15 Loos Memorial

1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers

 

Herbert George Clifford

 

Corp 242131 Frederick John James Collet

28.08.17 nr Ypres

2/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regt

 

Arthur Constant

 

Thomas Cooper

 

Pte PLY/852 (S) Daniel William Davies

03.02.16 English Bicknor

2nd Royal Marine Battalion, R.N. Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry

 

Pte 18089 Harry Dibbin (probable match)

26.03.18 Harbonnieres, nr Villers-Bretonneux

13th Battalion, Gloucester Regt

 

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/118123/DICKSON,%20JAMES Gunner 687477 James Dickson

05.04.18 Betrancourt, nr Arras

‘A’ Battery, 110th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

 

Ernest Doane

 

2nd Lieut Kenneth Curling Doddrell

19.09.18 Ramleh, Palestine

2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regt

(attached to 1/4th Battalion)

 

Thomas Dolloway

 

Pte 7743Alfred Doward (probable match)

30.11.16 Thiepval Memorial

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Pte 27898 William Wysom Dowle

22.09.18 Loos Memorial

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

(formerly with 2nd Battalion)

 

Pte 5355 Arthur William Eagles

23.07.16 Thiepval Memorial

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Pte 1079 Alfred John Edmunds

13.11.14 Menin Gate Memorial

2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment

 

L/Cpl 1516 Charles Edwards

05.05.15 Menin Gate Memorial

2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regt

 

Claude Vincent Evans

 

Edgar J. Evans

 

Pte 7218 Martin Thomas Evans (probable match)

01.11.14 Harlebeke, nr Ypres

2nd Battalion, Welsh Regt

 

Pte 24890 Augustus Vivian Evans

18.08.18 Newland (All Saints)

10th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

 

Pte 24205 Thomas Flannery

28.08.19 Forest of Dean (Christ Church)

Lancashire Fusiliers

Transferred to (584202) 410th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps

 

L/Cpl 9210 William Ewart Fox

04.11.18 Fontain-au-Bois, nr Le Cateau

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Pte 924 George Frowen

03.02.15 Cuinchy, nr Bethune

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Pte 13786Percy Frowen

23.08.18 Becourt, nr Arras

7th Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regt)

 

Pte 265187 Charles Elton Gaulder

26.05.17 Duisans, nr Arras

1/2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regt

 

2nd Lieut Frederick Horace Gosling

07.06.17 nr Ypres

32nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

WO 339/67565

 

Wiliam Walter Gilbert Griffith

 

L/Cpl 15508 Harry Michael Gunter

14.10.18 Maurois, nr Le Cateau

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Pte 446443 Frederick Gwilliam

15.09.16 Vimy Memorial

31st Battalion, Canadian Infantry

 

L/Cpl 260289 Herbert (Bert) Gwilliam

04.10.17 Tyne Cot, nr Ypres

12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

(Enlisted in Royal Gloucestershire Hussars)

 

L/Cpl 4066 Richard Haines

15.05.15 Le Touret Memorial

1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

 

George Alfred Hall

 

Pte 266055 Harry Hall

01.07.17 Ypres

1/2nd Battalion, Monmouthsire Regt

 

Pte 15292 Frederick Harris

22.03.16 St Sever, Rouen

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

(Son of Albert & Elizabeth Harris of Joyford Hill, Coleford)

 

Pte 12978 James Harris

09.05.17 Doiran Memorial, Greece

'D' Company, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

(Son of Albert & Elizabeth Harris of Joyford Hill, Coleford)

 

Corp 6333 Milson Harris

13.09.16 Mericourt-l'Abbe, nr Albert (Location of 36th, 38th and 2/2nd London CCS's)

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Gunner 150307 Roy Harris (possible match)

14.05.18 Franvillers, nr Albert

'D' Battery, 150th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

 

Eric Howard Harvey M.C. (King’s School & Minsterworth)

 

John Harvey

 

William Ewart Hawkins

 

Pte 340057 Arthur Edward Highley

15.04.18 Ploegsteert Memorial, nr Ypres

1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regt

 

Leslie Maynard Hinton

 

George Hoare

 

James William Hoare D.C.M.

 

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2948122/HOLLAND,%20G Pte 21999 George Holland

17.04.18 Lillers, nr Bethune

2/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt

 

Alfred Humphreys

 

George Arthur James

 

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/442134/JAMES,%20S%20A Gunner 8889 Sidney Adam James

11.07.17 Dickebusch, nr Ypres

249th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

 

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/357405/JENKINS,%20FRA... Pte 27116 Francis George Jenkins

05.07.17 Southend-on-Sea

Gloucestershire Regt

 

Frederick Jennings

 

Alfred William Stephen Jones

 

Ernest Alfred Jones

 

Pte 43888 Frederick Sidney Jones

23.08.18

Essex Regt

 

Pte 86177 Harold Elton Jones

04.11.20

Northumberland Fusiliers

 

Ivor Victor Jones

 

Pte 43657 Reginald John Jones

23.05.18

Bedfordshire Regt

 

Pte 42324 William George Jones

15.04.18

Suffolk Regt

 

Pte 12225 William James Jones

27.04.16

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

 

Pte 266901 Frank Gilbert Kear

12.08.18

Gloucestershire Regt

 

Thomas Reginald Kernick

 

Ernest Kilby

 

Gunner 13307 Sydney Kilby

06.08.16

Royal Field Artillery

 

Sgt 162026 Alfred Ernest Lane

20.09.17

Royal Engineers

 

Arthur James Latham

 

Pte 24680 Frederick Latham

13.07.16

Gloucestershire Regt

 

Herbert Thomas Lawrence

 

Percy Booth Lees

 

Pte PO/10347 Percy Edwin Cutter Levett

19.03.18

Royal Marine Light Infantry

 

Pte 13199 Arthur Lewis

30.08.16

Gloucestershire Regt

 

David Lewis

 

Corp 37326 Wilfred George Lewis

22.03.18

South Lancashire Regt

 

Moses Philip Manfield M.M.

 

Charles Urban Mantle

 

John Marshall

 

Albert George Martin

 

Hubert Matthews

 

Walter Merritt

 

Pte 1457 George Merry

26.04.15

Monmouthshire Regt

 

Tom Merry

 

Charles Morgan

 

Frederick Morgan

 

James George Morgan

 

Pte 29425 Ernest Edward Morris

09.05.17

Gloucestershire Regt

 

Ernest Sidney Nash

 

Frederick Nelmes

 

Albert Nicholls

 

Pte 52987 Frederick Oliver

07.11.18

Gloucestershire Regt

 

George Oliver

 

L/Cpl 760955 Edward Ducarel Palmer

30.10.17

London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles)

 

William Robert Panting

 

James Richard Phipps

 

Albert Harry Poole

 

Pte 760955 Herbert James Powell

08.05.17

Gloucestershire Regt

 

Pte 16185 Martin Powell

25.02.17

Gloucestershire Regt

 

W. Powell

 

William Powell

 

Lewis J. Pratt

 

Pte 1656 Albert Preece

22.11.16

Monmouthshire Regt

 

Pte 17016 Frederick John Preece

10.08.15 Helles Memorial

9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regt

 

Pte 1210 Arthur Prichard (Probable match: Pritchard on Memorial)

07.05.15

Monmouthshire Regt

 

Sapper 2079 David Thomas Prichard (Probable match: Pritchard on Memorial)

15.05.16

Royal Engineers

 

Pte 23146 Joseph Prichard

08.02.17

The King’s (Liverpool Regt)

 

Pte 15450 Thomas Pritchard (Probable match: Prichard on memorial)

08.10.15

Gloucestershire Regt

 

Pte 266051 Alfred Roberts

23.04.17

Monmouthshire Regt

 

Sapper 82342 Edward Roberts

15.03.17

Royal Engineers

 

Harold Freeman Roberts

 

Bertie Walter Rogers

 

Charles Rooke

 

Pte 15483 Thomas Russell

20.08.16

Gloucestershire Regt

 

2nd Lieut John Sayes

31.10.18

Devonshire Regt

 

A/S KW/108 Samuel Sayes

27.06.15

RNVR

 

Abendigo Selby

 

Ernest Selwyn

 

Thomas Short

 

Charles Smith

 

Harry Smith

 

Sgt 18028 Milsom John Smith

08.09.16

Gloucestershire Regt

 

Richard Smith

 

Pte 114419 Christopher J. Staite

28.01.19

Army Service Corps

 

Reginald John Stevens

 

Ernest Reginald Taylor M.C.

 

William Henry Taylor

 

L/Cpl 2256 Edgar Stanley Teague

20.09.16

Devonshire Regt

 

Wilfred Thomas Edward Teague

 

Pte 4305 Reginald Amos James Terry

04.12.16

Gloucestershire Regt

 

George Thomas

 

Alfred Tillings

 

Pte 18658 William S. Tippins

30.06.16

Gloucestershire Regt

 

William George Tomsett

 

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/359041/TOOBY,%20F%20M Forewoman Cook 12988 Frances Mary Tooby

14.11.18 English Bicknor

Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps

 

Harold Townsend

 

Charles T. Tyler

 

Thomas Waite

 

Charles Walker

 

Harry Wasley

 

Sgt 86865 Albert Watkins

31.07.17

Royal Engineers

 

Pte 3/7969 Charles Watkins

06.06.15

Somerset Light Infantry

 

James Watkins

 

John Watkins

 

Edwin Webb

 

Pte 1449 Benjamin White

15.01.16

Monmouthshire Regt

 

William White

 

William Edward Whittington

 

Albert Henry Williams

 

Bert Williams M.M.

 

Walter James Williams

 

Frederick Wilson

 

George Winn

 

Charles Edward Worgan

 

Edward Worgan

 

William Elton Worgan

 

Sydney Worgan

 

Pte 165200 Harold Cray Wyatt

22.10.17

Monmouthshire Regt

 

Ralph Yarworth

 

Pte 24572 Frank Young

07.10.17

Gloucestershire Regt

 

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This Mallard hen and her goslings have been taking a rest in this little island over the last few days. There are two goslings in there but only one is visible. This place is a little dangerous for these goslings as the pond is full of snapping turtles. This mom has done a good job getting these two youngsters to this stage.

 

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Located on Parade Way in a small triangular shaped lawn under a magnolia tree.

 

This list is as yet incomplete, but still will help to show what the plaque that the ashes of those buried here looks like.

 

W. H. Tongue Ash Vault

 

Neville Howard Addyman

Selana Daphne Aekins

Richard Stephen Airey

Oswald Thomas Allan

James Allen

Hilde Wilma Altman

Otto Altman

Patricia Jean Anderson

Vera May Anderson

George Leslie Ansell

Walter Norman Ansell

Winifred Louisa Arkell

John Augustus Armstrong

Lavinia Chandler Armstrong

George Ashe

Stanley Clarence Asquith

Winifred Mary Astley

Amherst Alfred Auger

Rolf Cecil Bach

Rose Winifred Baillie

Neil Cuthbert Bannatyne

Charlotte Barker

Alice Barlow

Henry Barnaby

Amy Frances Barnes

Shaun Gerrard Barnes

Leslie Ernest Barratt

Norma Alice Barrett

Royden Frank Barry

Frederick Barton

Elfreda Frances Bayly

Florence Bayly

Helena Paul Beattie

Amelia Bebb

Minnie Alice Bechter

Robert Alfred Beck

Nora Mary Benjamin

Douglas George Betchley

Muriel Isabella Bethune

Ernest Binns

Gertrude Binns

Harry Alex Bird

Frank James Bishop

Jane Bishop

Annie Louise Black

Ethel Mary Bluck

Annie Maude Bockett

Elon Bond

Evelyn Weir Bond

Ian Bryce Bond

Hannah Sophia Bonnet

Kenneth Bottomley

Mildred Maud Bowie

Joanna Watt Boyd

Albert Edward Boyes

Evelyn Boyle

Daniel Bradley

Thomas Bradley

Helen Janet Brasell

Robert Marshall Bray

Albert Brazzi

Sarah Anne Brazzi

Owen Victor Brewer

Joseph Ramon Brodie

Frederick Brooks

Stanley Brooks

Ethel Mary Brown

Constance Isabel Browne

Muriel Rita Brumby

Charles Buchan

Thomas McCarthey Buchanan

Alma Catherine Buckton

Roland Buckton

Jack Budd

Gertrude May Bunker

Charlotte Helen Burnett

Paul Selwyn Burrett (baby)

Eliza Bush

Frederick Henry Bush

William Arthur Faulkner Bush

Doreen Beatrice Byrne

William John Byrne

Agnes Caisley

Kathleen Nellie Callagher

Margaret Campbell

Evelyn Anne Carde

Kate Carr

Robert Thomas Carson

Ernest David Carswell

Lewis Charles Carter

Karyl Isabel Cartier

Norman Frederick Cato

George Thomas Chambers

Lilian Church

Hilda Clanfield

Elizabeth Clark

Foster Jobling Clark

Grace Thomasine Clark

Jackson Clark

Lizzie Ann Clark

Louis Alfred Clark

Owen Ralph Clark

Violet Masterton Clark

Edwin Joseph Clarke

George William Albert Clarke

Margaret Theresa Clarke

Winifred Elsie Clarke

Gwendoline Close

Minnie Colbeck

Phillip Eklektis Cole

Myra Lewis Colledge

Clandette Collins Collins (sic)

Stanley William Max Collis

Joseph Allen Connon

Arthur Norman Conway

Brian Allen John Cooke

Joseph Sammel(sic) Cooper

Edwin Corfield

Charles Horace Cornish

Elsie Cornish

Janet Mud Cornish

Joy Muriel Cosgrave

Edward James Cox

William Tai Coxon

Stewart Coyle

Allen Norman Sinclair Croad

Christine Crowhurst

William John Crutchley

Marjorie Cumberland

Oswald Henry Currie

Audrey Ruth Curry

Josephine Ivy Curry

William John Cuthbertson

Joan Cutten

Isabella Davis

Charles Archibald Dawson

Mabel Harriet Dawson

Mary Elizabeth Dawson

Edith Louise De Luen

Royce Holland De Luen

Helen Fairlie Dickison

James Fairfield Dickson

Dorothy Louisa Dimery

Laurence Walter Dixon

Phyllis Constance Douglas

Leonard Mervyn Doull

Robert Edward Dowding

Evelyn Violet Downer

Archibald Dunning

Charlena Dunning

Anne Elizabeth Dunningham

Jack Richard Dunningham

Margaret Eadie

William Ernest Eriksen

Edward Victor Evans

John Henry Evans

William Thornhill Evans

Joseph Everitt

Matilda Fair

Laurence Harold Farley

James Allan Fearnley

Maurice James Findlay

Leonard Vincent Fisher

Westley Fleming

Ivy Winifred Foote

Addilet Forrest

Frances Elizabeth Forth

May Madeline Foster

Blanch May Fox

Francis Daniel Fox

Rona Isabel Frame

Thomas Albert Fulljames

Herbert George Gadsby (memorial Cremation Lawn Old, Row A2, Plot 8?)

Minnie Emeral Gallie

Alexander Edward Garmonsway

Alfred John Gibson

William Gill

Albert John Gillard

Margery Rosina Gillespie

Colin Gillies

F. W. Gooch

Beverly Gosling

Eric William Graham

Florence Graham

Robert James Graham

Robert Grant

Shirley Gaynor Grayson

Annie Lillian Green

Cecil John William Green

Mary Fanny Greenbank

Eleanor Augusta Greenfield

Isabel Inez Greenwood

John Birdsall Greenwood

Norman Greenwood

Winifred Greenwood

Elizabeth Griffiths

Alfred George Gurney

John Hans

Charles Harley

Florence Harris

Barry Edward Hartley

Caroline Harvie

Thomas David Haughey

John Wallis Haylock

Amy Maria Haynes

Herbert Albertobe Haynes

William Alexander Hayr

Gilbert Borland Heley

Alfred William Hemsley

Arnold Peter Hendry

Gladys Mary Herbert

Houlahan Hugh Herbert

Rosa Herberts

James Henry Hewitson

Laurek (sic) Margaret Hickey

Nancy Elizabeth Eileen Hill

Perry Gordon Hill

Melchior Charles Hirtzel

William Edwin Hodgson

Sarah Jane Hollingsworth

Fred Ersic Homann

Louis Hong

David Smith Hood

Irene Josephine Hood

Charlotte Mary Hooper

Valmai Irene Hooton

Kathleen Nora Hopkins

Norman Phelps Hopkins

Alfred Andrew Horspool

Douglas David Horton

George Hosking

Georgina Maud Houghton

Emma Howden

Gladys Hoyte

Herbert Hughes

Ann Elizabeth Hulme

Joseph Ernest Hulme

Hilda Maureen Hulmes

Margaret Alice Jane Hunger

Douglas Hunns

Frances Vernon Hunter

Mabar Marion Dutie Hunter

Ronald MacGregor Hutton-Potts

Lilly Louise Impey

Frederick James Ingram

Ruby May James

Ruth Hope Jenkins

Horace Augusta Jensen or Jenson

Charles Edward Johnson

Dinah Johnston

Ethel Frances Johnston

Gladys Victoria Jones

William Henry Jones

Leonard Hugh Joyes

William Edwin Judkins

Frederick Ernest Kearsey

Elwyn Patrick Keegan

Lionel Martin Kelly

Mabel Elizabeth Kelly

Nicholas Kelly

Gertrude Offley Kendon

Thomas Kerr

George Cornelius Kewish

George Daniel Kewish

Edna May Kingdon

Arthur Milton Killeen

Jessen Charles Lake

Lulu Agnes Lake

William James Lang

Seymour George Lawler

Margaret Rowland Lawson 1961

Trevor James Lawson

William Maitland John Lee

Queen Leitch

Dorothy Mildred Lethbridge

Bertram Lewis

John Norton Lewis

Winifred Grace Lovatt

Ray Lowe

David Lumsden

Henry Charles Luscombe

Sophia Harriet Anne MacDonald

Mary MacKenzie

Helen Montgomery MacLean

Judith Lloyd Macky

lfo Leonara Magill

William Fairchild Marsh

Lavina Mason

Ida Masterson

Ida Adrienne Masterton

Martin Bruce Matthews

Keith Thomson McCallum

Gertrude Emily McConachy

Alexander McCulloch

John Anthony McCullough (baby)

Charles Frederick McDonald

Denis McDonald

Katrina McDonald

John Leslie McGovern

Harriett Jane McGowatt

Daisy McGowen

Janeta McGregor

Margaret McIntyre

David McKay

Elizabeth McKay

Wesby Bernard McKelly

Eveline McKerrow

Allen McLean

Selina McLeigh

Ruby Rose McLuckie

Jean Campbell McMahon

Landa McMahon

Thomas McMahon

Alexander Cecil McMillian

Beryl Elsa McMullen

Margerita Jenny McMullen

Mildred Bartlett McMullen

William Henry McMullen

Forest Jefferson Russell Meads

Hylton Gordon Medhurst

Hugh Douglas Meikle

Walter James Melhuish

Francis Isobel Mellsop

Thomas Edward Mickleson

Robert Allen Middleton

Louis Midgley

Harry Archibald Mildon

Annie Martha Miller

Molly Patricia Miller

William George Miller

William Keith Mintrom

Jane Osborne Moody

Walter Moselen

David Muir

Amie Rusha Muldoon

Clara Emily Munns

Delys Ruth Munt

Ethel Loxley Murdoch

Veronica Mynott

John Edward Nelson

Henry Newcombe

William Newsham

Ethel Margaret Nicholas

Lesie Nicolson

Florence Nield

Florence Nield

George Albert Nodder

Frederick George O'Hanlon

Henry E. O'Meara

Mary Jane Oates

John Clifford Oldbury

Lily Jessie Osborne

Beatrice Page

James Martin Patterson

Ethel Graham Pattinson

Robert Martin Pattinson

Millicent Ernestine Susan Paul

Hilda Lucina Perkins

Arthur Leonard Phelps

Michelle Tracey Phillips

William James Phillips

Edna Pithie

Laura Rangiho Postma

Walter Price

William Richard Provis

Warren Garth Pugh

Fanny Purtell

Ellen Agnes Ralph

David Elder Ramsay

Henry Thomas Read

Thomas Richard Read

Francis Stephen Reekie

John Redgwell

Ivy Muriel Rennie

Alma Agnes Ritter

Lavinia Annie Robinson

Jessie Whitter Rogers

Samuel Victor Rogers

William Henry Rogers

Gordon Charles Ross

Hylda Roxburgh

Jennifer Anne McKenzie Rule

John Lea Sage

William James Saussey

Anna Pestina Schollum

John Edward Scott

Ralph Gordon Lawrence Scott

James Leslie Sethertham

George Shand

Anna Pauline Sheath

Frederick George Shrimpton

Ralph Peter Simpson

John Douglas Sloman

Alice Edna Smith

Ann Emily Violet Smith

Anne May Smith

Hannah Laura Patterson Smith

Herbert John Smith

James Smith

Margaret Eleanor Smith

Mary Ann Smith

Sidney Mowat Smith

Warwick Webster Smith

Colquhoun Dalzell Somerville

Florence Jane Somerville

Lena Somerville

Ada Alice Spence

Gladys Eileine (sic) Spick

Clarence William Squire

Jessie Lavinia Stacey

George Leslie Stancliff

Isabella Morison Stancliff

Thomas Albert Stancliffe

Helen Florence Stanley

Elizabeth Fanny Stanton

Ralph Arundel Stedman

Helena Myrtle Stephens

Herbert Harris Stephens

Alexander McAllister Steven

John McKay Steven

Alfred Eastburn Stevens

Leonard James Stevens

Louisa Marion Stevens-Jordon

John Melville Stevenson

Richard Hampton Stevenson

John Melville Steward

Annie Stewart

Eslie Eveline Stewart

John Stewart

Elsie Elizabeth Ellen Stockham

Colin Jack Stodart

Edgar Donald Stotter

Alice Sullivan

Frederick Montague Sullivan

Herbert James Summer

Sarah Alice Summer

Rosemarie Christine Sutton

Lillian Swinscoe

Agnes Inez Doren Taylor

Michelle Evelyn Taylor (baby)

Reginald Veater Taylor

Wray Lawrence Taylor

Jesse Benjamin Thomas

Herbert Thompson

Isabella Mary Thompson

Margaret Adelaide Thompson

Florence Elsie Trenwith

Annie Anderson Troup

John Joseph Tullett

Catherine Olive Vail

John Walker

Robert Henry Walker

Felix Walter

John Ernery Walton

Joseph Raymond Ward

Walter Warren

Ada Waters

Kathleen Waters

Melville Humphrey Watkins

John Watterson

Walter Charles Wells

Alexander Wood West

Vincent Onslow West

Lee William

Dorothy Wheeler

Rita Dorothy Wheeler

Roger Allen Whishaw

Elsie Margaret Whitcombe

Geoffrey Middleton White

John Henry White

Harry Whitehead

Bessie May Whitehouse

Grace Darling Widdows

Henry Moore Wightman

Kathleen Wigmore

Ivy Myrtle Wilkinson

Nellie Wilkinson

Lee William

Ashley Iveson Williams

Guy Lewis Williams

William Augustus Williams

Charlotte Williamson

Dorothy Gwendoline Williamson

Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson

Lillian Phyllis Willis (Drake)

Mabel Linda Albert Wills

Allan Baxter Wilson

Charles Wilson

Edwin Frank Wilson

John Wilson

Mervyn Trimble Wilson

Rebecca Booth Wilson

Thomas Hans Vyvyan Wilson

Gwendoline Nora Winch

Alice Winterbottom

Graham Albert Wolf

Florence Mary Woodhead

Florence Minnie Woodhead

Florence May Woollams

Louise May Wright

William Wright

Edna Marie Wurlein

Jessie Yeats

Ging Shang Yee

Albert Edward Richard Yeoman

Olwyn Jean Yeoman

Albert Edward Young

Jack Stuart Young

All information is provided in good faith but, on occasions errors may occur. Should this be the case, if new information can be verified please supply it to the author and corrections will then be made.

 

This memorial has been compiled with additional information by kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and from Ancestry.co.uk

 

St Peter's Church, Winchcombe.

ROLL of HONOUR.

 

The names of the Men and Women of this parish (Winchcombe) who have given their lives for their country.

 

BALLINGER Frederick Victor. Company Sergeant Major 13030, 9th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 25th April 1917. Born at Winchombe Gloucestershire, enlisted at Cheltenham and was killed at Serbia. His sister Lydia R was granted a war gratuity on the 15th November 1917, revised on the 20th October 1919. He was born in 1887 to ThomasFrederick and Elia Jane Lockyer, nee Reaford who in were living at Winey Street, Winchombe, Gloucestershire, in 1891 to 1911. Frederick, now called Victor in 1911 was a house painter and living with his brother, Thomas and his wife at The Lodge, Chipstead Place, Kent. Commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece.

 

BIRD Francis Clifford. 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd King's Shropshire Light Infantry, killed in action near St Eloi, Flanders 2nd March 1915 aged 19. Elder son of Francis and Mary of Cotswold, Winchombe, in the parish. Commemorated on a memorial tablet in St Michael and All Saints Church, Broadway, Worcestershire and is at rest in Voormezeele Enclosure No 3, Belgium.

 

BLANDFORD Thomas. Private 4511, 3/5th Gloucestershire Regiment, later private 202927, 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment. Born in 1898 at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, son of Thomas and Emma. He died in 17th December 1919 aged 21 at 9 Council Cottages, Winchcombe.

Some notes from what remains of his army record.

He joined up aged 17 and 2 months on the 15th August 1915 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire and posted into the army reserve the same day. He was living with his parents Thomas and Emma at Irely Road Green, Winchcombe. On the 1st September 1916 he was sent to the Depot of the 3/5th Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Force. On the 1st September 1916 he was posted again (to where, not recorded) He was sent to France on the 30th June 1917 and on the 20th July 1917 he was posted again possibly to join the 2/5th with a new army number 202927. While in action at the front he was reported missing between 21st and 31st March 1918. He was later found that he was alive but a prisoner of war with the Germans. He was wounded in his left eye on the 25th March 1918 before his capture, he lost the eye. After his repatriation, date not known he was medically discharged from the army with a permanent disability on the 5th April 1919 to his home at 9 Station Road, Winchombe.

 

BOLTON A. Not been able to find the correct record held by the CWGC (Boulton also checked)

 

BROWN Harry Horace Charles. Private 14907, D Coy, 1st Hampshire Regiment killed in action 22nd December 1916 aged 24. Son of George Thomas (Tom) and Emma Maria Brown, of Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His mother was granted a war gratuity on the 19th April 1917, revised on the 6th October 1919. At rest in Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

BUTLER Frank. Lance Corporal 11152, 8th Service Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 18th November 1916. Born at Winchcombe , enlisted at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Son of Ernest and Lilian of 27 Hailes Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His occupation in 1911 aged 13 was a gardener. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 30th March 1917, revised on the 7th October 1919. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

BUTCHER Arthur Lewis. Private 203075, 2/5th (Territorial) Gloucestershire Regiment died 21st March 1918. He was the son of George and Sarah Maria of (1911) Greet, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Occupation aged 13, working on a fruit plantation. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 31st May 1919. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

 

CARE Arthur. (Military Medal) Private 11206, 8th Gloucestershire Regiment died 11th April 1918 aged 28. Son of Charles and Julia Care, of 11, Gloucester Street., Winchcombe, Gloucestershire Regiment. At rest in Harlebeke New British Cemetery, Belgium.

 

CLEGG Arthur Wincel. Private 17170, 9th (Service Battalion) Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action at Salonika 3rd October 1916 aged 21. Son of Louisa Clegg, of Corner Cupboard, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He was born on the 3rd September 1895, to Louisa Clegg, single woman, baptised on the 21st February 1895 at Sudley Church, Gloucestershire. His mother was living at the Union Workhouse, Sudley she was also granted a war gratuity on the 11th January 1917, revised on the 14th October 1919. At rest in Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece.

 

CLEMENTS Arthur. Private 7460, 1st Gloucestershire Regiment died 4th November 1914 aged 26. Son of John and Emma of Vineyard Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, husband of Elizabeth Clements, of 262, High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

COMFORT Arthur Edward. Acting Leading Stoker K/7574, H.M.S. Dublin, Royal Navy died 8th January 1916 aged 23 of pneumonia. Born on the 21st February 1892 to Elijah and Louisa of 5 Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. When he was baptised on the 21st May 1892 at St Luke's Church, Cheltenham his parents were living at Naunton Terrace, Cheltenham, his father was working as a porter. He enlisted on the 22nd July 1910 for a period of 12 years, occupation gardener. His first ship was H.M.S Vivid II, last ship was H.M.S Dublin.

At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

CONN Reginald William. Sergeant 29725, 1st Worcestershire Regiment died 14th October 1918 aged 19. Son of William and Martha Conn, of North St., Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. At rest in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.

 

CURTIS Norman Debuffe killed in action 25th October 1918 aged 34. Son of Edith Jane and William Decuffe Curtis. Commemorated on his parents memorial in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire

 

DAVIS (Memorial has DAVIES) Frederick. Private 21499, 4th Worcestershire Regiment killed in action 6th August 1915 at Gallipoli.

Husband of Frances Annie Watford (formerly Davis, nee Hart), of 19, Wain Fach Street., Caerphilly, Cardiff. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Belgium.

 

DAVIES Lloyd. Private 16568, 2nd Field Company, Royal Engineers killed in action 10th March 1915. He was born on the 19 March 1887 at Winchcombe to Lydia Ballinger Davies, single woman living at Winchcombe. He was baptised on the 24th April 1887 at Winchcombe Church. He was living with his mother at his grandparents home in 1901, William Edward and Mary Davies, Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. 1911 he was a boarder at 2 Riland Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire the home of William Henry Higgs and his wife. His occupation, an electrician. Husband of Margaret Davies, of 6, Museum Road, Oxford. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France

Some notes from what remains of his army records.

He joined the Royal Engineers on the 13th June 1907 aged 20 and 3 months and given the rank of private 16568. He was living at Winchcombe and his occupation, carpenter and joiner. He had previously served with the 1st Glosters Royal Engineers Volunteers. On the 13th June 1910 he was transferred to the army reserve. His period of engagement had expired. He got married on the 14th January 1913 to Marguerite Collins at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire.

On the 7th August 1914 he was mobilized and posted to the Royal Engineers Depot at Chatham, as Sapper 16568. After he had finished his training he was posted to France on the 6th November 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chappelle on the 10th March 1915. His wife lived at The Three Gables, Winchcombe and 9 Coleshill Street, Sutton Coldfield. His next of kin were given as father, William Edward, mother Mary, and his correct mother Lydia and her siblings.

 

DEAKIN Robert Hartley. Lieutenant 10th Jats, (Indian Infantry Regiment) attached to 45th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps died 22nd July 1917 aged 22. Born in India in 1895 to William Robert and Mary Jane Deakin, of Norton Hall, Worcester. Gazetted to Indian Army from Sandhurst. Scholar of Cheltenham Grammar School. Captain of his house. Undergraduate at Jesus College, Oxford. Commemorated on the Arras Flying Service Memorial, France.

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DOUGHTY Harry Cecil. Sapper 203107, 2/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment died of wounds 1st September 1917 aged 30. Son of John William and Emily Curtis, nee Gardner of (1901) Didbrook, Gloucestershire. In 1911 he was living with his wife Bertha, nee Nash at Gretton, near Winchcombe, occupation, general labourer. At rest in

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium

 

DYDE Alfred . Guardsman 15877 Grenadier Guards died 28th December 1918 aged 24 at the Cottage Hospital, Winchcombe. He was the son of Charles William and Harriett Matilda of Gretton Road, Winchcombe. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 19th May 1920. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire.

 

DYDE Charles. Lance Sergeant 15240, Royal Berkshire Regiment died of wounds 14th April 1918 in France. Born at Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire. His widow, Lily, was granted a war gratuity on the 20th June 1918, revised on the 20th December 1919.

 

EVANS Frederick James. Lance Corporal 8573, 2nd Worcestershire Regiment killed in action 24th October 1914. Born at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, lived at Manchester, enlisted at Worcester. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

EVANS R C (may be the following) Charles Robert, Private 15319, 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in action 8th October 1917. Born at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, enlisted at Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

Son of William who was granted a war gratuity on the 25th February 1918, revised on the 13th November 1919. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

FISHER W It may be William Ernest. Private 203547, 1/4th Wiltshire Regiment, formerly 290423 Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action in Egypt, 10th May 1918. Born , lived in Cheltenham, enlisted at Horfield, Bristol.

 

FRY Albert George. Killed in the Dardanelles 8 August 1915, 32. Son of William and Elizabeth. Commemorated on his parents memorial in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire. Check, Edward James, s, 7 February 1919, 37

 

FRY W. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC

 

GARNER Charles. Killed in action October 1918 aged 22. Son of Charles and Annie. Commemorated on his parents memorial in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire

 

GILES Arthur. Sapper 138612, 118th Railway Company, Royal Engineers, killed in action 21st July 1916. Born at Kingham, Oxford, enlisted at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Son of Thomas and Maria Giles, of Daylesford, near Chipping Norton, Oxford. His widow, Edith Mary was granted a war gratuity on the 6th October 1916, revised on the 19th September 1919. In 1909 he was married to Edith Mary Stephens at Winchcombe. In 1911 he was living with his wife and daughter and mother in law, Emma Stephens at Greet, Winchcombe, occupation, railway porter. At rest in Calais Southern Cemetery, France

 

GOODALL F. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC .

There was a Fred Goodall, born in 1898 at Winchcombe, to Frank and Mary living with his parents at Hailes Street, Winchcombe, in 1901 and 1911. No H.M.Forces connection could be made.

 

GREENING Arthur. Quartermaster Sergeant, Farrier,

Royal Horse Artillery. Served with honour, and was disabled in the Great War 1914, Died 15 Aug 1922, 42. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

 

GREENING Leonard George. Private PLY/1258(S) 2nd Royal Marine Light Infantry died 28th April 1917 aged 19. Son of Thomas and Edith Greening, of Bull Lane, Winchcombe, Glos.

 

HACKMAN Clifford. 2nd Lieutenant, 92 Squadron Royal Air Force died 7th April 1918 aged 20. Son of Edwin F. and Mary Hackman, of 73A, Hythe Road, Swindon, Wiltshire. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

HALL E. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC

 

HALL Frank Leslie. Corporal 96636, 156th Field Coy, Royal Engineers died 4th March 1917 aged 20. Son of Alfred Lee and Elizabeth Hall, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He had a brother, Edgar Lee, but he was not in the army he died on the 31st October 1918, occupation, bank agent. At rest in Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

HENNEY Charles died on service In Ireland as Corporal Mechanic 247684, R.A.F. 14 August 1921 aged 21 Born on the 1st June 1900 to Joseph and Dorcas Eliza nee Kettel and grandson of Charles Townshend Henney and Lucy of Postlip Mill. In 1901 he was living with his parents at Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, In 1911 he was living with his parents at Postlip Cottages, Winchcombe. On the 24th January 1918 he joined the Royal Navy as ?? F47684 for a period of 4 years. His first ship was HMS President II, Shore Base, next and last ship was H.M.S. Tregantle RNAS training base. His occupation on enlistment was a motor mechanic. He is commemorated on his grandparents memorial in Winchombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire and is at rest in Bohermore New Cemetery, Galway

 

HOLDER Sidney Charles. Private 15254, 16th Lancashire Fusiliers killed in action 10th March 1916 aged 26. Son of George Jeans and Annie Elizabeth Holder, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His sister, Elsie Kate was granted a war gratuity on the 12th May 1916, revised on the 28th August 1919. At rest in Authuile Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

HOLMES Alwyn Robert. Private 240363, 1/5th Gloucestershire Regiment died 6th August 1917 aged 21. Born at Winchombe to John and Florence Kate. Holmes, of Raymeadow Cottages, Dumbleton, Evesham, Worcestershire, formerly of Gretton Road, Winchcombe. At rest in New British Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

 

HUMPHRIES A. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC

 

JACKSON Richard. Sergeant 8391, 1st Worcestershire Regiment died 14th March 1915. Son of George and Jane Jackson, of Castle Street., Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.

 

JEFFRIES George Henry . Private 241627,2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 22nd August 1917. Born 17th March 1888 in Winchcombe, enlisted at Cheltenham, both in Gloucestershire. Son of William and Emma Jane, of Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

 

JONES Ernest James. Lance Corporal 139636, 12th Field Coy, Royal Engineers died 21st April 1918 aged 33. Husband of Mrs. E. Johnston (formerly Jones), of Gretton Rd., Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. At rest in Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Belgium.

 

KING T (May be this person) Thomas. Private G24660, 7th West Kent Regiment, formerly Private 25230, Somerset Light Infantry killed in action 13th July 1917. Born and enlisted in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He was the son of John and Emily of Leckhampton, Gloucestershire He was married on the 10th May 1910 at St James Church, Cheltenham , to Ethel Maud Onion aged 19, labourer of 17 Commercial Street, Cheltenham. She was aged 20 and living at the same adddress. Her father was called George Henry. In 1911 he was living with his wife and daughter, Violet aged 3 months at 10 Exmouth Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, occupation, brick maker. At rest in China Wall , Perth Cemetery, Belgium.

 

LAFFORD F (Only one L Lafford listed with the CWGC) Private 27801 Frederick Charles LAFFORD. 16th Royal Warwickshire Regiment , formerly 24767 Shropshire Light Infantry died of wounds 10th April 1917 aged 25. He was born in 1894 at Ross Hereford to Charles and Elizabeth . In 1901 he was living with his parents at 52 Over Ross Street, Ross, Herefordshire. His mother remarried and was

Elizabeth Bishop, formerly Lafford. of 10, Brookend Street., Ross, Herefordshire. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

OR this person) Private 2096, John Lafford, 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 25th September 1916. Born at Quenington, enlisted at Winchcombe, both in Gloucestershire. Son of Sarah J who was granted a war gratuity on the 12th May 1917, revised on the 15th October 1919. He is at rest in Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France.

 

LAUNCHBURY James Frederick. Private G/24624, 7th Royal West Kent Regiment, formerly 4591, Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 8th August 1917. His widow, Ellen, was granted a war gratuity on the 10th January 1918, revised on the 20th February 1920, Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

LANE Henry Frederick. Private 25741, 14th Worcestershire Regiment died at home on the 29th June 1917. Born and lived in Winchcombe, enlisted at Tewkesbury, all in Gloucestershire.

 

MAJOR Arthur. Private 11386, 7th Gloucestershire Regiment died 8th August 1915 aged 22. He was born at Winchcombe on the 3rd February 1893 to Charles and Sarah Ann Major, of 94, Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, Glos. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli)

 

MAJOR Edwin John. Corporal 11199, 7th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds 11th August 1915 aged 22. Son of John and Emma Major, of 68, Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His mother was granted a war gratuity on the 24th November 1916, revised on the 21st August 1919. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli)

 

MARTIN A. It may be Alfred Henry, Gunner 17932 Royal Field Artillery, 159 Brigade died of wounds at 3rd General Hospital, France, 6th July 1918.

Son of Henry Edward and Harriek Martin, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Husband of Florence who was granted a war gratuity on the 25th September 1918, revised on the 11th October 1918 and 24th December 1919. At rest in Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France

 

MINCHIN Thomas Henry. Private 23289, 1/4th formerly the 10th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds on the 24th July 1916. Born in Winchcombe, enlisted at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Born on the 16th December 1886 to Thomas and Annie. In 1911 he was living with his parents at Hailes Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, occupation, farm labourer. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 21st November 1916, revised on the 10th September 1919. At rest in Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France

 

OAKEY Walter George. Private, PLY/1256(S) 2nd Royal Marine Light Infantry died 28th April 1917 aged 22. Born on the 27th October 1893 at Winchcombe to William Thomas and Louisa Jane Oakey, of 52, Hailes Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

 

PARKER W It may be the following. William James Maisey. Private 10302, 7th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action at Gallipoli 26th July 1915 aged 23. Son william Masey and Laura Parker, (nee King), of 118, High Street, Tewkesbury, husband of Rosaline Parker, of 48, Waterloo Street, Cheltenham. His wife was granted a war gratuity on the 27th October 1915, revised on the 12th July 1919 now called Mrs Rosaline Craynor. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli)

 

PEACEY Howard George. Sergeant 2100, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry. killed in action 23rd April 1916. Born in 1889 at Charlton Kings Gloucestershire to Frederick John and Kate of (1911) Manor Farm, Greet, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Occupation aged 22, assistant farmer to his father. Commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

 

PEARCE C H. It may be the following. Private 111116, Charles Henry Willy PEARCE. 7th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action at Mesopotamia on the 10th February 1917. Son of Joseph Walter and Salbrah Edith Pearce, of Cheltenham. His sister Salinah Shelton Pearce was granted a war gratuity on the 5th July 1917. At rest in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

 

PRICE George. Private 240391 Gloucestershire Regiment died 21st October 1920 aged 23. Son of Charles Henry and Annie Elizabeth, ne Ballinger l of 64, Gloucester Street., Winchcombe. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

RACHAEL Albert Victor. Private 3rd Wiltshire Regiment died 25th February 1919. Son of Philip and Georgina Maria West. In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at Wyck Hill, near Bourton -on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

Also his brother (not on the memorial)

Lance Corporal 14441 Ernest Edward RACHAEL 10th Royal Warwickshire Regiment died of wounds, 3 July 1916, 24. Son of Philip and Georgina Maria West. In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at Wyck Hill, near Bourton -on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

Commemorated on his brother's memorial in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire, also on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

RESTALL Sidney Edward. Private 16416, 12th Gloucestershire Regiment died 3rd September 1916 aged 23. Son of William and Mary Ann of Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. Husband of Annie Restall, of 50, Hailes Street, Winchcombe, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

RICHINGS Tom. Private 26042, 10th Durham Light Infantry, formerly 15359, Hussars killed in action 7th April 1916. Born on the 3rd December 1892 at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire to Tom and Mary Ann of Footbridge, Winchcombe. In 1911 he was living with his parents at Bull Lane, Winchcombe, occupation, factory hand. He was married on the 20th December 1914 to Annie Jeffries at Winchcombe Parish Church, Gloucestershire. He was aged 21, soldier, living at Winchcombe. Annie was aged 26, daughter of James Jeffries, deceased at the time of the wedding. His wife also lived at Bull Lane, Winchcombe. He is at rest in Agny Military Cemetery, France.

 

SEABRIGHT John Franklin. Sergeant 7409, 10th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds 1st October 1915. He was born on the 22nd April 1886 to William and Elisabeth of Winchcombe. In 1911 he was serving with 1st Gloucestershire Regiment at Cambridge Barracks, Portsmouth. At rest in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.

 

SHILLUM Edwin Thomas . Private 17313, 9th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 27th October 1918. Born in 1899 to Edwin Frank and Annie of Stanway Grounds Stanway, Gloucestershire. In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at Wineyard Street, Winchcombe. His father was granted a war gratuity on the 20th March 1919, revised on the 11th December 1919. At rest in Le Cateau Military Cemetery, France.

 

SMITH Alfred Thomas. Private 8/106 Otago Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force died between 6 and 7th August 1915 aged 28. Son of Thomas and Sarah Smith, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the New Zealand Memorial, Chunuk Bair, Turkey (including Gallipoli)

Some notes from his army records.

He joined up on the 13th August 1914 aged 27, occupation Mental Hospital attendant at Seacliff, New Zealand. He had previously served 5 years with the 5th Gloucestershire Territorials, discharged to go to New Zealand. His next of kin was his brother George E Smith of Lower Guiting, North, Gloucestershire, formerly of 20 Vauxhall Street, Gloucester City. He embarked from New Zealand on the 15th October 1914, disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt on the 3rd December 1914. Presumed killed in action at the Dardanelles between the 6th and 7th August 1916. He had a brother Harry was serving as Sergeant 67707, 127th Field Coy, Royal Engineers, 22nd Division, B.E.F.

 

SPRINGFIELD Thomas Osborn. Corporal 1927, 1/1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars died 14th May 1916. Born in 1892 Peckham, London lived at Winchcombe. Son of Thomas Osborne and Alice Eliza of(1911) 113 Landseer Avenue, Manor Park, West Ham, Essex. At rest in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

 

STEPHENS Edgar William. Sergeant 13631, 10th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 20th April 1916 aged 24, born at Hailes, Gloucestershire to Mrs. Ellen Maria Stephens, (nee James) of 4, Horsefair Street, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire. Born at Gretton, Gloucestershire. In 1901 he was living with his parents William Job and Ellen Maria and siblings at Winchcombe. In 1911 he was boarder at the home of James and Elizabeth Ruck, Newtown, Toddington, near Winchcombe, occupation, railway porter. At rest in St Patrick's Cemetery, Loos, France. His brother, Job, also fell, in 1917.

 

STEPHENS Job. Private 25742, 14th Worcestershire Regiment killed in action 3rd September 1917. In 1901 he was living with his parents William Job and Ellen Maria and siblings at Winchcombe. In 1911 he was living with his brother, Jesse, at Gretton Field, Winchcombe. He was a grocers errand boy, aged 13. At the time or near to his death his mother was now living at 4, Providence Place, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, his father was deceased. His brother Thomas also fell, in 1916.

 

STEWART Ernest Henry. Private 13496, 10th Gloucestershire Regiment, killed in action 13th October 1915. Born on the 26th May 1885 to Charles and Mary Ann, (nee Newitt) at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. In 1901 he was living with his parents and siblings at Cheltenham Road, Winchcombe. 1911 he was now a boarder at the home of John and Annie Waterhouse of 33 Grange Road, Frindsbury, Rochester, Strood, Kent. Working for the government in a magazine department. He was married on the 27th February 1915 to Hilda Mary Hopkins at St John's Church, Cheltenham. He was aged 29, private with the 5th Glosters, home address Lansdown Crescent Cheltenham. She was aged 23, spinster, living at Sydenham Road, Cheltenham, daughter of Alfred John Hopkins. His widow was granted a war gratuity on the 23rd October 1916, revised on the 15th September 1919, now Mrs Hilda Mary Wilko. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

 

STYLES W. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC. (Stiles also checked)

 

TAYLOR George William. Gunner 82301,177th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery killed in action 11th October 1916. Born at Holt, Worcestershire, lived at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Husband of Alice Gertrude Taylor, (nee Hawker), of Old Road, Hartpury, Gloucestershire. His widow was granted a war gratuity on the 16th April 1917, revised on the 20th September 1919. At rest in Bienvillers Military Cemetery, France.

 

TOWNSEND Edward James. Private 201999, 1/4th (City of Bristol Battalion) Gloucestershire Regiment died 13th April 1917. Born in 1881 to James and Matilda A Townsend, (nee Williams of Chapel Lane, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. In 1911 he was employed as a groom. His mother was granted a war gratuity on the 25th October 1917, revised on the 27th November 1919. At rest in Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

TOWNSEND C It may be, Charles Sidney. Lance Corporal WR/253954, 119th Railway Company, Royal Engineers died 25th October 1918. At rest in Tincourt New British Cemetery, Somme, France

Some notes from what remains of his army records

Son of James and Mary Eliza of Hereford House, Leckhampton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He was married to Glady Eve Grubb on the 25th December 1915 at St Philips Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Joined up on the 19th January 1916 aged 23 and 11 months at Railway Troops Depot, Royal Engineers, Longmoor , occupation, carpenter. later posted to the His wife was his next of kin of Hereford House, Suffolk Street, Leckhampton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He embarked for the British Expeditionary Force, France on the 30th May 1916 and posted to the 119th Railway Coy, Royal Engineers . He was promoted to Lance Corporal in the field on the 11th August 1917. On the 25th October 1918 he died at the 58th Casualty Clearing Station, France from Broncho Pneumonia

 

TRIPP Hubert Charles. Sergeant 17260, 8th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds 14th June 1918 aged 21. Born at Bibury, Gloucestershire to George William and Rachel Tripp, of Culls Meadow, Toddington, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, France.

 

TUSTIN George. Able Seaman R/584, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Navy, reported missing, body found and exhumed. He was identified by a cap badge and two numerals. Presumed died 16th July 1917 aged 29. Born on the 26th April 1886 to John Tustin and Lucy of (1891) Gloucester Street, Winchcombe.

Husband of Annie Elizabeth Tustin,(nee Barrett) of Chandos Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He enlisted up on the 15th April 1917, joined Hood Battalion on the 5th June 1917. Son of John Tustin and Lucy nee Tustin of (1891) Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. His next of kin was his wife, Annie Elizabeth of Bull Lane, Winchcombe, occupation timber haulier. At rest in Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-En-Gohelle, France.

 

WASLEY Tom. Private 24454, 1st Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action 28th April 1916 aged 16. He was born on the 31st January 1900 at Winchcombe to Charles Henry and Ellen Wasley, (nee Smith). Baptised on the 27th May 1900 at Winchcombe Church. In 1901 - 1911 they were all living at Gretton Road, Winchcombe. At rest in St Patrick's Cemetery, Loos, France

 

WHITTINGHAM Albert Edward. Private 13404, 8th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in action on the 3rd July 1916. Son of Elizabeth who was granted a war gratuity on the 18th January 1917, revised on the 1st September 1919, now Mrs Elizabeth Follett Born at Plymouth, Devon, enlisted at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He was granted a war gratuity on the 24th March 1915 on the death of his brother Frederick. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

 

WHITTINGHAM Frederick. Drummer L/8356 Royal West Surrey Regiment killed in action 1st November 1914 aged 23. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Follett, (formerly Whittingham) of Sidney Lodge, Overton Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Born at Plymouth, Devon, lived in Cheltenham, He enlisted at Plymouth on the 8th April 1905, occupation, messanger. His mother, brother's William and Albert Edward (he fell in 1916) sisters, Elizabeth and Kate, were all granted a war gratuity on the 24th March 1915. Only his mother had her gratuity revised on the 23th July 1919, Now Mrs Elizabeth Tollett, wife of Walter James Follett Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 

WHITE Walter James. Private 9970, 4th Worcestershire Regiment killed in action at Gallipoli on the 6th August 1915. Born at Aston Magna, Worcestershire, lived at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire and enlisted at Evesham, Worcestershire. Son of John and Sarah of (1901) Ridon Lane, Charlton, Worcestershire. In 1911 he was serving with the 4th Worcestershire Regiment stationed in India. On the 6th September 1913 he was married to Fanny Broad Gosling at Winchcombe Church, Gloucestershire. He was aged 26, occupation, labourer and he was living at Syde near Cheltenham. She was aged 30, spinster, domestic servant, living at Langley Cottage, Winchcombe, father, James. His widow, Fanny Broad, nee Gosling was granted a war gratuity on the 2nd June 1916, revised on the 18th August 1919. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli).

 

WILLETT William John. Rifleman 47608, 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, formerly T4/035788 Army Service Corps died 24th March 1918 aged 24. Son of Joseph Thomas and Hannah E. Willett, of 11, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

 

WOODWARD Hubert Grove. Corporal 19985, 25th Machine Gun Corps, (Infantry), formerly 11986, Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 23rd October 1918 aged 27. Born in 1892 at Barton Regis, Bristol, Gloucestershire to Hubert Densham and Louisa Woodward , Nee Grove of (1901) North Street, Winchcombe.Husband of May Woodward, nee Balmond of John Street, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.

(Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at Catherine Villas, 21 Beach Road, Bedminster, Bristol. Corporal with the Machine Gun Corps died 23rd October 1918. His effects went to his wife. At rest in Pommereuil British Cemetery, France

 

YIEND James Henry Edward. Private 241291, 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds 3rd June 1918, 25.Son of Albert Andrew and Margaret Yiend of (1891) Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. In 1911 his mother was now a widow and still living in Gloucester Street, Winchcombe. Later at 7, Seagrave Place, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. James was living with his aunt and uncle, Henry Frederick and Emma Elizabeth Yiend at 24 Albert Street, St Pauls, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, occupation aged 18, commercial clerk. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

  

To the glorious memory of those who fell in the Second World War

1939 - 1945 whose names are inscribed below.

 

BARTLETT William. Sapper 5186073, 6th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers died 28th October 1942 aged 27. Son of Rose Bartlett, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, He was married in 1935 at Winchcombe Methodist Chapel, to Dorothy Beryl Davis. of Winchcombe. At rest in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.

 

CARTER A (It may be the following. Arthur Kitchener. Private 6096614 4th The Buffs, Est Kent Regiment died between 23rd and 24th October 1943 aged 28. Son of Arthur and Annie Carter, nee Colston of Gloucester. Commemorated on the Athens Memorial, Greece,

 

COOPER Geoffrey Edmund. Flight Sergeant 613902, 228 Squadron, Royal Air Force died 25th April 1941 aged 21. Born in 1919 at Winchcombe, to George and Annie Priscilla Cooper, nee Durham of Kingham, Oxfordshire. Commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt.

 

COOPER Samuel George. Pilot Officer, Pilot 42301, 80 Squadron, Royal Air Force died 19th December 1940 aged 24. Born 1916 at Winchcombe, to George and Annie Priscilla Cooper, nee Durham of Nether Westcote, Kingham, Oxfordshire. At rest in Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece.

 

EVANS F J. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC.

 

EVANS R C. Unable to find the correct record for this person held by the CWGC.

 

FORTY Mowbray Ronald. Sergeant Wireless Operator 927159, 12th Squadron, Royal Air Force died 22nd October 1941 aged 23. Son of Charles and Edith Ellen, nee Neale. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Greet Road, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

MARSH Arthur. Lance Corporal 7364329, Royal Army Medical Corps died 16th March 1946 aged 27. Husband of Barbara Mary Marsh, of Winchcombe. (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at 8 Cheltenham Road, Winchcombe and died at the City General Hospital, Gloucester City. His effects went to his wife. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

MASON Robert Edward. Pilot Officer, Air Bomber, 100 Squadron, Royal Air Force (VR) died 16th December 1943 aged 21. Son of Edward Parr Mason and Ruth Mason, of Winchcombe. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

 

MUIR Ian Kay. Lieutenant 69084, 10th Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, died on Monday 27th May 1940 aged 23. Born in 1916 at Marylebone, London to Mathew William and Clara Gardner Muir. (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at Lynes House, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire. His effects went Gillian Rachel Williams, wife of Evan Morgan Williams. At rest in Hodeng-Au-Bosc Communal Cemetery, France.

www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org/Servicemen/Detail/23222

 

NOLAN William. Sergeant 3766982, 5th Liverpool Regiment died 12th February 1941 aged 24. Son of John and Mary Nolan, of Dublin, Irish Republic, husband of Mary Nolan, of Dublin. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. (IRISH SITE)

 

PUMPHREY Maurice John. Leading Aircraftman, Pilot, under training, Royal Air Force (VR) died 29th September 1940 aged 21 as the result of and accident. Son of George and Alice May Pumphrey, of Winchcombe. At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

 

ROGERS P H There are only two P.H.Rogers listed with the CWGC, neither with an obvious connection to Winchcombe and surrounds and Gloucestershire.

Pilot Officer, Observer 107914, Patrick Heron Thorold Rogers. 86 squadron, Royal Air Force (VR) died 12th March 1942 aged 31. He was born and lived in London.

 

Trooper 7948809, Peter Henry Gordon Rogers. 3rd Carabiniers, (Dragoon Guards) died 6th May 1945 aged 22. Son of Martin G. Rogers and Gladys Florence Rogers, of Ilford, Essex. At rest in Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma.

 

SMITH Cyril Woodyear. Leading Aircraftman 1394906, Royal Air Force (VR) died 9th April 1943 aged 28. Son of Arthur Victor Woodyear Smith and Aileen Smith, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. At rest in Red Deer Cemetery, Alberta, Canada.

 

SLATTER Dudley Malins. Pilot Officer 44597, 141 Squadron, Royal Air Force died 19th July 1940 aged 26. He was born in 1914 in Gloucester to Wilfred Thomas Slatter, and of Valletta Matilda Slatter, (nee Brinkworth) of Southsea, Hampshire. His parents were married at St Michael's Church, Gloucester City in 1910. His father died on the 30th November 1949, home address was 52 Festing Grove Southsea. (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at 38 High Street, Emsworth, Hampshire. His effects went to Ronald Arthur Orchard, solicitor. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey

 

SODEN G S. No J S listed with the CWGC . It is the following

Frank Graham SODEN , Lieutenant, Army in Burma Reserve of Officers died in Burma 18th May 1942. Born in 1915 at Pancras, London to Wilfred Scovil Soden and Dorothy Maud Soden, nee Graham. (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He was living/serving at Bhamo, Burma and died 18th May 1942 on war service. His effects went to his mother, widow.

At rest in Imphal War Cemetery, India

 

SODEN Ivan Scovil. D.S.O. Flight Lieutenant, Pilot 33289, 56 Squadron, Royal Air Force died 18th May 1940 aged 23. Son of Wilfred Scovil Soden and Dorothy Maud Soden, of Combe Down, Bath, Somerset. Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at Irwell Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. His effects went to his mother, Dorothy Maud Soden, nee Graham. His father served as Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in Egypt 7th February 1917. Retired from the army on the 25th June 1921, his medals were sent to him at Tudor House, Winchcombe.

At rest in Biache-St Vaast Communal Cemetery, France.

 

SODEN J S. No J S listed with the CWGC It is the following.

Flight Lieutenant 42903, John Flewelling Soden, Royal Air Force. Died 12th September 1942. Born in 1921 at Winchcombe to Wilfred Scovil Soden and Dorothy Maud Soden, nee Graham. Commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt.

Short extract from the book. Men of the Battle of Britain

He joined the RAF as pupil pilot on the 14th August 1939. He was killed at sea on the 16th September 1942 while on troop ship SS Laconia which was sunk by U-Boat U.156.

www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Soden.htm

 

STRATFORD Henry James. Private 4919937, Pioneer Corps, died 29th May 1943 aged 27.Born in 1916 at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire to James Pittman Stratford and Rose Elizabeth Stratford, (nee Hall, of Coventry. At rest in Moascar War Cemetery, Egypt.

 

THOMAS E It may be the following. Private 14757680, Eric Thomas, 1/5th Welch Regiment died 14th April 1945 aged 18. Son of Wallace Ivor and Matilda Frances Thomas, of Upton, St. Leonards, Gloucestershire. At rest in Becklinghem War Cemetery, Germany.

 

WASLEY Edward Thomas George. Lance Corporal 11254950, 1st East Surrey Regiment died 20th April 1945 aged 23. Son of Edward and Ethel May Wasley, of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. At rest in Argenta Gap War Cemetery, Italy

 

WEBBER Hubert Edward. Sergeant 7891890, A Squadron, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps died 8th Augusy 1944 aged 24. Son of Joseph Marshall Webber and Gertrude Maud Webber, of Winchcombe. Gloucestershire. At rest in Bayeux War Cemetery, France.

 

WIGGETT John. Gunner 14303415, 91st Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, attached to 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders died 26th November 1944 aged 20. He may have been the son of Harold Jim and Grace Elizabeth, nee Oakey of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. There is a John Wiggett born in 1924 at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. At rest in Mierlo War Cemetery, Netherlands.

 

SINCE 1945

 

LANCHBURY John Edward. Private 22988102, Gloucestershire Regiment. Born 27th December 1933, died 9th May 1955 Died in the Mau Mau Uprising , Kenya. Son of Alfred Edward Lanchbury and Norah Alice nee Seabright of Winchcombe. His father died 2nd March 1956. He was living at 65, Abbotts Leys Road, Winchcombe

 

Army Death, Northern Ireland

Lance Corporal 24078868 Ian Roy BRAMLEY 1st Gloucestershire Regiment, 28th 61st of Foot, killed by a sniper at the barrier on the 1 February 1972, 25 at Hastings Street, Belfast At rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Gloucestershire.

 

BRIDGES Oliver Alfred Maynard. Stoker Mechanic, SKX 832096 Royal Navy on H.M.Submarine Affray. Born 26th May 1929 died 19th April 1951 aged 21. Born in Edmonton, Middlesex to Alfred Henry and Dorothy Sarah H Maynard of Edmonton.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Affray_(P421)

 

CLEMENT-HUNT Roger Timothy P. Sergeant 24686779, Royal Logistic Corps . Born 21st July 1968 died 8th March 2001 aged 32. at rest in Winchcombe Cemetery, Winchcombe

 

1891 Bournemouth postmark.

 

Guillaume & Sons: This solicitors firm was founded by Edward Guillaume in 1836. He carried on until 1889. His sons Frederick and Thomas became partners (1864-1920 and 1868-1923 respectively). Thomas's son Theodore served from 1898 to 1973. Guillaume and Sons by early 20th century were commissioners for oaths, and commissioners for the Supreme Court of South Africa. Frederick, Thomas, Theodore, John F and Reginald Guillaume were partners. Merged with Gosling and Wilkinson in 2007 to form Guillaumes.

 

London office: 14 George Street, Mansion House (1859-1860); 186 Fleet Street (1875); 9 Salisbury Square (1882-) later 1 Salisbury Square, Fleet Street (1928); moved 1950s to 56 Church Street, Weybridge, Surrey (1976); 50 Church Street (2012).

 

Bournemouth office: Yelverton Chambers, Yelverton Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire (1891); later Hampstead Chambers, Yelverton Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire.

E L West……………………………Captain

 

Name: WEST, EDWARD LYNN

Rank: Captain Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Age: 33 Date of Death: 01/08/1916

Additional information: Son of the late George and Margaret West, of Norwich; husband of Mabel West, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 1 C and 1 D. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=820470

  

There is a picture of a Captain E. L West on Norlink, and his cap badge looks like the Britannia of the Norfolk Regiment. On CWGC there is only one E L West of any rank listed as being killed in WW1. However, the Norlink notes state that he was from Wymondham,and the picture was taken in 1916.

norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...

 

However, there is no Captain West listed on the Wymondham War memorial.

www.flickr.com/photos/43688219@N00/2927477572/in/set-7215...

 

The 1901 Census has a 17 year old Edward West who had been born at Bungay but who was now living as a boarder at Church Street, Wymondham. His occupation is listed as Wholesale Stationer. Unfortunately this Edward does not appear on the 1891 Census.

 

However, the 1901 Census does list a 60 year old Margaret H.West, widow, living at Fair Lawns, Unthank Road, Eaton, Norwich. Margaret had been born at Greenwich in London. She lives at this address with her 28 year old daughter, Hellen L West who had been born at Bungay, and her five year old Grand-daughter, Margaret H West, also born Bungay as well as two live in Domestic servants.

 

Margaret also doesn’t appear on the 1891 census. However in 1871 she is to be found at Trinity Street, Bungay, and is the wife of George, who had been born in Leicester and who gave his occupation as “British School Master” They would appear to have a son Henry R, aged 4, James P, aged 2 and Arthur G, aged 1, although at the time of my enquiry the digital scan of the census page wasn’t available.

 

I can’t find a record of the 1st battalion being in the line on the 1st August, but they had taken heavy casualties in an action on the 28th which is documented in the diary of another unit taking part in the same attack, the 1st Bedfords. For now it remains a possibility that Captain West died of wounds received in that action.

 

“The Brigadier-General Commanding wishes to express to all ranks of the Brigade his great admiration at the magnificent manner in which they captured the Village of LONGUEVAL yesterday. To the 1st NORFOLK Regiment and the 1st BEDFORDSHIRE Regiment and some of the 16th ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE Regiment, who were able to get into the enemy with the bayonet, he offers his heartiest congratulations. He knows it is what they have been waiting and wishing for many months. The 1st CHESHIRE Regiment made a most gallant and determined effort to reach their objective and failed through no fault of their own. The way in which the Troops behaved under the subsequent heavy bombardment was worthy of the best traditions of the British Army The Brigade captured 4 Officers and 159 other ranks 28/7/1916 “

www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/1stbtn/1stbtn1916appendices.html

  

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A W White…………………………Private

 

Name: WHITE, ALEXANDER WILLOUGHBY

Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: "A" Coy. 1st Bn.

Age: 25 Date of Death: 04/09/1916 Service No: 23793

Additional information: Son of William and Alexandra W. White, of 57, Essex St., Norwich.

Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 1 C and 1 D. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=820831

 

There is a picture of Private White on Norlink, although his regiment is listed as the 4th Norfolks.

norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...

The accompanying notes read that he was born in Norwich in 1893, enlisted in 1915, and was killed in action in France on the 4th September 1916. (NB this date of bith would make Alexander 22/23 rather than the 25 shown on CWGC)

 

The 10 year old Alexander W White was living at 87 College Road, Norwich, at the time of the 1901 Census. This was the household of his parents, William, a 46 year old Post Office Sorting Clerk from Alpington, Norfolk, and Alexandra W, aged 37 and from Norwich. Also resident are Alexander’s brothers Cyril E, (aged 6), Harrold A, (aged 1), Louis V, (aged 3) and William J, (aged 11).

 

On the 1891 census, the four month old Alexander had been living at 108 Stafford Street with his parents and his widowed maternal grandmother, Elizabeth R Bond, age 82.

 

4/5th September 1916 Action at Falfemont Farm near Guillemont

 

The attack was held up and casualties were being caused by bombing and small arms fire before they eventually took the objective only to come under friendly artillery fire that caused serious casualties. According to the Regimental casualty book 56 all ranks were killed, 219 wounded and 94 missing, believed killed, a total of 369. The battalion was relieved the next day.

1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t...

 

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S S Wilkinson……………………………….Private

 

No obvious match on CWGC.

 

No match on Norlink.

 

1901 Census

 

Stanley u/164 Waddington Street

Stanley 731 Trinity Street, Parish of Eaton, born Manchester

Parents Edgar & Caroline, (he’s a professional photographer.)

Sydney C 99 Mount Pleasant, Parish of Eaton

Parents Harry & Kate

 

Checked again,but still no obvious match on CWGC.

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W Woodrow………………………..Lance Corporal

 

Name: WOODROW Initials: W

Rank: Lance Corporal Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: "B" Coy. 1st/4th Bn.

Age: 22 Date of Death: 15/12/1917 Service No: 200498

Additional information: Son of William and Sarah Jane Woodrow, of Eaton Lime Kiln, Newmarket Rd., Norwich.

Grave/Memorial Reference: G. 11. Cemetery: RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=653602

 

There is a picture on Norlink of Walter George Woodrow of the 1st/4th Norfolks.

norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...

The notes read that he was born in Eaton, Norwich on the 14th August 1895. He was educated at the Eaton and Crooks Place Schools in Norwich. On the 11th September 1914 he enlisted and he was killed in action in Palestine on the 15th December 1917.

 

The 1901 Census has the 5 year Walter G living at 13 Church Lane, Eaton. This is the household of his parents William, (aged 31 and a Lime Kiln Labourer from Attleborough) and Sarah T. (aged 29 and from Norwich). Also resident atr Walters siblings Alfred W. (aged 11), Alice M, (aged 10), Dora M, (aged 1), Elizabett T, (aged 9) and Thomas C, (aged 8).

 

Jerusalem had fallen a few days earlier to the allies, but sporadic fighting continued in the hills to the north of the city, which would eventually culminate in an unsuccessful counter-attack by the Turks on the 26th.

www.firstworldwar.com/battles/jerusalem.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jerusalem_(1917)

 

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M Woods………………………………......Private

 

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=737747

(Royal Scots Fusiliers)

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=573745

(Suffolk Regiment)

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1577590

(Canadian Infantry)

 

This last individual is shown as Merwin Lyonel Woods on the Canadian National Archive and has no apparent connection with Norwich.

collectionscanada.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.01-e.php?&a...

 

No match on Norlink

 

No obvious match on the 1901 Census.

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F S Youngman………………………………......Private

No obvious match on CWGC

 

No match on Norlink

 

No obvious match on the 1901 Census

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G W Youngman……………………………….......Private

 

Possibly

Name: YOUNGMAN Initials: G W

Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Royal Fusiliers Unit Text: 4th Bn.

Age: 20 Date of Death: 05/06/1918 Service No: 71952

Additional information: Son of Florence and the late F. S. Youngman, of The Cottage, Attleboro', Norfolk. Native of Wilby, Norfolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 9. Cemetery: SANDPITS BRITISH CEMETERY, FOUQUEREUIL

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=493206

 

No match on Norlink

 

No obvious match on the 1901 Census.

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Norman A Yull……………………………….Private

 

Name: YULL, NORMAN AUBREY

Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Northumberland Fusiliers Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.

Age: 21 Date of Death: 12/11/1916 Service No: 6591

Additional information: Son of Arthur and Anna Yull, of 31, Leopold Rd., Eaton, Norwich.

Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1556640

 

No match on Norlink

 

There appears to be no match for Norman, Arthur or Anna on the 1901 Census.

 

The 5th Northumberland’s were in the trenches on the Somme at this time.

www.fairmile.fsbusiness.co.uk/50th.htm

 

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E A Gosling………………………………..Driver

 

No obvious match on CWGC

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 1901 Census lists an 18 year old Ernest who was born at Norwich but who is now a Private in the Milita, stationed at Colchester. Otherwise there is no likely match. Ernest doesn’t seem to be on the 1891 Census, so it isn’t possible to establish which part of Norwich he has connections with.

 

The Postcard

 

A postally unused Colourmaster International postcard that was published in the mid-1960's by Photo Precision Ltd. of St. Ives, Huntingdon. The card, which has a divided back, was printed in Great Britain.

 

HMY Britannia

 

Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia, also known as the Royal Yacht Britannia, is the former royal yacht of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in service from 1954 until 1997.

 

She was the 83rd. such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893.

 

During her 43-year career, the yacht travelled more than a million nautical miles around the globe. Now retired from royal service, Britannia is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is a popular visitor attraction with over 300,000 visitors each year.

 

Construction of the Royal Yacht

 

HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd. in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on the 16th. April 1953.

 

The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top 20 feet (6.1 m) of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges.

 

Britannia was designed to be converted into a hospital ship in time of war, although this capability was never used. In the event of nuclear war, it was intended for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to take refuge aboard Britannia off the north-west coast of Scotland.

 

The Crew of the Royal Yacht

 

The crew of Royal Yachtsmen were volunteers from the general service of the Royal Navy.

 

Officers were appointed for up to two years, while the "yachtsmen" were volunteers, and after 365 days' service could be admitted to "The Permanent Royal Yacht Service" as Royal Yachtsmen.

 

They could then serve until they chose to leave the Royal Yacht Service or were dismissed for medical or disciplinary reasons. As a result, some served for 20 years or more.

 

The Royal Yacht also carried a troop of Royal Marines when members of the Royal Family were on board.

 

History of the Royal Yacht

 

Britannia sailed on her maiden voyage from Portsmouth to Grand Harbour, Malta in 1954. She carried Princess Anne and Prince Charles to Malta in order for them to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the end of the royal couple's Commonwealth Tour.

 

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh embarked on Britannia for the first time in Tobruk on the 1st. May 1954.

 

On the 20th. July 1959, Britannia sailed the newly-opened Saint Lawrence Seaway en route to Chicago, where she docked, making the Queen the first British monarch to visit the city.

 

US President Dwight D. Eisenhower was aboard Britannia for part of this cruise; Presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were welcomed aboard in later years.

 

Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, took their honeymoon cruise on Britannia in 1981.

 

The ship evacuated over 1,000 refugees from the civil war in Aden in 1986.

 

HMY Britannia, when on royal duties, was escorted by a Royal Navy warship. The yacht was a regular sight at Cowes Week in early August and, usually, for the remainder of the month, was home to the Queen and her family for an annual cruise around the islands off the west coast of Scotland (known as the "Western Isles Tour").

 

During her career as Royal Yacht, Britannia conveyed the Queen, other members of the Royal Family and various dignitaries on 696 foreign visits and 272 visits in British waters. In this time, Britannia steamed 1,087,623 nautical miles (2,014,278 km).

 

Decommissioning of the Royal Yacht

 

In 1994, the Conservative government announced the yacht's retirement. Viscount Cranborne, in a written answer, stated in the House of Lords on the 23rd. June 1994:

 

"The yacht last underwent a major refit in 1987.

A further refit at an estimated cost of some

£17 million would be necessary in 1996–97, but

would only prolong her life for a further five

years.

In view of her age, even after the refit she would

be difficult to maintain and expensive to run.

It has therefore been decided to decommission

"Britannia" in 1997.

The Government will now consider the question

of whether to replace "Britannia"."

 

In January 1997, the government committed itself to replacing the Royal Yacht if re-elected. The timing of the announcement, close to a general election, was controversial; The Guardian called it:

 

"Part of a populist appeal to wavering

Tory voters in the run-up to the general

election".

 

They went on to say that the Queen was "furious" that the Royal Family was dragged into the centre of the election campaign, just as it was fighting to restore its public image.

 

Sir Edward Heath publicly objected to the government's handling of the issue, stating that:

 

"The Conservative Party above all

must be an honourable party.

And I don't believe the actions that

have been taken are honourable

ones, and should never have been

taken in this way."

 

The government argued that the cost was justified by its role in foreign policy and promoting British interests abroad, particularly through conferences held by British Invisibles, formerly the Committee on Invisible Exports.

 

It was estimated by the Overseas Trade Board that events held on board the yacht helped raise £3 billion for HM Treasury between 1991 and 1995 alone.

 

The Labour opposition announced it would not commit the use of public funds for a replacement vessel for at least the first 2 years of any new Labour government.

 

After its election victory in May 1997, the new government considered multiple options for the future of a royal yacht, but concluded in October of that year that Britannia would not be replaced. George Robertson, Defence Secretary stated:

 

"We made clear that we would not

spend public money on a Royal Yacht

and I am keeping that promise.

We in the Ministry of Defence have to

justify every penny of the taxpayers'

money that we spend, and in this case

I could not do so, particularly - as the

Queen has made clear - since a Yacht

is not needed for Royal travel.

We considered in detail all private

finance options, but these would only

have been viable with a substantial

annual subsidy from public funds".

 

The Royal Yacht's final foreign mission was to convey the last Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, and the Prince of Wales back from Hong Kong after its handover to the People's Republic of China on the 1st. July 1997.

 

Britannia was decommissioned on the 11th. December 1997. The Queen, normally undemonstrative, is reported to have shed a tear at the decommissioning ceremony that was attended by most of the senior members of the Royal Family.

 

Proposals for the construction of a new royal yacht, perhaps financed through a loan or by the Queen's own funds, have made little headway. In December 2019 it was reported that the late Sir Donald Gosling has donated £50 million in his will to pay for it.

 

Retirement of the Royal Yacht

 

Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Britannia is a visitor attraction moored in the historic Port of Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is cared for by the Royal Yacht Britannia Trust, a registered charity.

 

There was some controversy over the siting of the ship, with some arguing that she would be better moored on the River Clyde, where she was built, than in Edinburgh, with which the yacht had few links.

 

Britannia is one of the UK's top events venues. On the 18th. May 2006, the Swiss-born Hollywood actress and first Bond girl, Ursula Andress, celebrated her 70th. birthday on board the former royal yacht.

 

On the 29th. July 2011, a drinks reception was held on board Britannia for Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips and her then fiancé, Mike Tindall, to celebrate their upcoming wedding.

 

An early Land Rover in much-restored shape is displayed in the on-board garage, while a retired Rolls-Royce Phantom V state car is parked on the wharf below the ship.

 

The tour of the five decks that are open to the public includes the Queen's Bedroom, which can be viewed behind a glass wall, and the State Dining and Drawing Rooms, which hosted grand receptions for kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers throughout the world.

 

The clocks on board are stopped at 3:01, the time that the Queen last disembarked. The Royal Deck Tea Room was added in 2009.

 

The 1936 racing yacht Bloodhound, once owned by the Queen and Prince Philip, is now berthed alongside Britannia. Bloodhound was one of the most successful ocean-racing yachts ever built, and was also the yacht on which both the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal learned to sail.

 

The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust bought Bloodhound in early 2010, and she is the centrepiece of an exhibition focusing on the Royal Family's passion for sailing. Visitors can view Bloodhound from a specially built pontoon when the racing yacht is in port.

 

During July and August, she is berthed in Oban Marina and is available for private charter, as she sails around the islands once visited by the Royal Family during their annual fortnight holiday in the Western Isles. During this period, Royal Yachtsmen (Yotties) from Britannia's original crew sail the yacht for the Britannia Trust.

 

Some Britannia Facts and Figures

 

Ordered: 5th. February 1952

Tonnage: 5,769 GT

Length: 412 ft (126 m)

Beam: 55 ft (17 m)

Height: 123 ft (37 m) to top of mainmast

Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m)

Propulsion: 2 Pametrada steam turbines, 12,000 hp (8,900 kW)

Speed: 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph)

Range: 2,400 nautical miles (4,400 km)

Capacity: 250 guests

Troops: 1 platoon of Royal Marines

Crew: 21 officers and 250 Royal Yachtsmen.

Identifications from the CWGC database:

 

Ordinary Seaman Albert Edward Ackerman (Service No: Bristol Z/2577), R.N. Depot, (Crystal Palace), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; died 3 November 1918, aged 18; buried in Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery (W5. 7714.); son of Edward H. Ackerman, of East Coker, Yeovil: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/367701/ACKERMAN,%20AL...

 

Probably: Gunner J. Baker (Service No: RMA/14289), Royal Marine Artillery (H.M.S. "Britannia"); died 10 September 1918; buried in Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery, Sierra Leone (1. E. 11.) [HMS Britannia was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the King Edward VII class; from 1917 she was mainly used on convoy escort duty, based in Sierra Leone; she was sunk off Cape Trafalgar on the 9 November 1918, the final RN vessel to be lost during the First World War]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/419626/BAKER,%20J

 

Private J. C. Boucher (Service No: 19899), 5th Bn., Grenadier Guards; died 13 April 1918, aged 24; buried in East Coker Cemetery, Somerset (B. 171.); son of Charles Boucher; husband of Elsie Louisa Bellamy (formerly Boucher), of 5 Willows Terrace, Harlesden, London.; born at East Coker: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/394677/BOUCHER,%20J%20C

 

Lance Serjeant Walter John English (Service No: 10383), 6th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; died 18 August 1916, aged 28; awards: Military Medal; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme (Pier and Face 2 A.); son of the late William and Charlotte English: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/753587/ENGLISH,%20WAL...

 

Private Henry Hames Farnham (Service No: 10605), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 21 August 1915, aged 22; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 136 to 139.); son of Frank and Jessie Farnham, of Sunny Banks, Chilthorne Domer, Yeovil: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/695908/FARNHAM,%20HEN...

 

Private R. Hartland (Service No: 20611), 6th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 23 August 1918; buried in Pozières British Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme (I. J. 21.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/588966/HARTLAND,%20R

 

Captain Maurice Howard Helyar, 4th Bn., Rifle Brigade; died 24 January 1915, aged 36; buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord (III. F. 63.); son of Francis and the Hon. Mrs. Helyar, of 11, Royal Crescent, Bath; husband of Mrs. V. R. Gosling (formerly Helyar), of Mailingford Hall, Norwich; served in the South African and Somaliland Campaigns: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/199845/HELYAR,%20MAUR...

 

Private Arthur Lambert (Service No: 3005A), 47th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.; died 5 April 1918, aged 26; name recorded on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, France; son of Sarah Lambert, of North Coker, Yeovil, England, and the late John Lambert; born at Leigh, Sherborne, Dorset, England: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1455526/LAMBERT,%20AR...

 

Probably Bartie Alfred Neville (Service No: 17241), 2nd Bn., Coldstream Guards; died 26 September 1916; buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, Somme (XL. M. 15.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/609493/NEVILLE,%20BAR...

 

Serjeant Ernest William Neville (Service No: 1978), 7th Bn., The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment); died 2 May 1916, aged 33; buried in Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery, Somme (II. G. 6.); son of Mrs. Ellen Baker, of Chapel Row, East Coker, Yeovil: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/260702/NEVILLE,%20ERN...

 

Private Sydney Ostler (Service No: 15284), 6th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; died 25 September 1915; name recorded on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 21.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1622964/OSTLER,%20SYDNEY

 

Second Lieutenant Archie Ernest Pragnell, 21st Bn. (E.E.F.)., London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles); died 30 December 1917, aged 32; buried in Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (B. 37.); son of Frederick and Ruth Pragnell, of Yeovil, Somerset; husband of Grace Pragnell, of "Pendennis," Westminster Drive, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/476976/PRAGNELL,%20AR...

 

Private Edgar Tom Pulman (Service No: 9947), 1st Bn., Middlesex Regiment; died 17 April 1917, aged 26; buried in Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, Pas-de-Calas (Henin-sur-Cojeul German Cemetery Mem. 17.); son of Tom and Mary Pulman, of Malvern House, Musbury, Axminster, Devon; native of North Coker, Yeovil, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/179323/PULMAN,%20EDGA...

 

Lance Corporal Alfred Joseph Rendell (Service No: 6938), 1st Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; died 2 May 1915; name recorded on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 21.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1625832/RENDELL,%20AL...

 

Lance Corporal Ralph Rendell [not possible to identify]

 

Sergeant Major George Rickets [not possible to identify]

 

Private Arthur Alexander Russell (Service No: 10400), 6th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; died 13 August 1915, aged 18; buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (III. D. 27A.); son of George and Annie Russell, of 4, Council House, East Coker, Yeovil: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/147343/RUSSELL,%20ART...

 

Private Frederick James Sandford (Service No: 10401), 6th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; died 16 September 1916; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 2 A.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/811163/SANDFORD,%20FR...

 

Private Charles Stevens (Service No: 17242), 3rd Bn., Coldstream Guards; died 12 September 1917, aged 26; name recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 9 to 10.); son of Robert and Annie Stevens, of East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3066188/STEVENS,%20CH...

 

Private H. Stevens (Service No: 10657), 8th Bn., Gordon Highlanders; died 19 October 1915, aged 17; buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (I. B. 24A.); son of William Anthony Stevens and Susan Stevens, of Burton Cross, East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/149615/STEVENS,%20H

 

Private Leonard C. Symes - The National Archives has a medal card record (WO/372/19) for a Leonard C. Symes (Service No: 132872), that seems to match: Private W. H. Symes (Service No: 132872), 21st. Bn., Machine Gun Corps (Infantry); died 12 April 1918; buried in Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, Nord, France (I. Q. 15.); son of James Symes, of 1, Chapel Row, Bathford, Bath; [Symes's Forces War Records entry says that he was born at East Coker and resident at Yeovil; Private Symes's name also appears on the Bathford war memorial]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/24239/SYMES,%20W%20H

 

Private Henry Ralph Squibb (Service No: 320490), 16th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment; died 7 January 1918, aged 39; buried in the Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (F. 3.); son of George and Annie Squibb; he was a farmer and joined voluntarily; native of Milton Clevedon, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/477190/SQUIBB,%20HENR...

Photo three.

 

Name: ILSLEY (CWGC) ILLSLEY (memorial), WILLIAM

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lance Corporal

Service No: 25733

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Date of Death: 04/10/1917

Age: 31

Regiment/Service: Devonshire Regiment, 1st Bn.

Panel Reference: Panel 38 to 40

Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Beagley, of Well Green, Winchfield, Hants; husband of Bessie Ilsley, of Mountsland, Ashburton, Devon.

 

Name: JUDD, EMILY M

No record at CWGC.

 

Name: KNIGHT, GEORGE

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.

Age: 18

Date of Death: 19/12/1915

Service No: 3071

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: O. 18

Cemetery: KUT WAR CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of Charles and Mary Knight, of Gas House Cottages, Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: LLEWELYN, ROBERT HARMAN

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Commander

Regiment/Service: Royal Navy

Unit Text: H.M.S. Queen Mary

Date of Death: 31/05/1916

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 10

Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

 

Name: LLOYD, ROBERT AUBREY HASTINGS

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force

Unit Text: 85th Sqdn.

Age: 18

Date of Death: 14/10/1918

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: XVII. C. 2

Cemetery: GREVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of E. Wynell M. and Eleanor E. Lloyd, of Hartford House, Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: LLOYD, WYNELL HASTINGS

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers

Unit Text: 123rd Field Coy.

Age: 23

Date of Death: 17/04/1918

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: II. F. 4

Cemetery: WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Additional information: Son of E. W. M. and Eleanor E. Lloyd, of Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: MART, BASIL GOODA

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Gunner

Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch)

Unit Text: 'A' Bn.

Age: 19

Date of Death: 17/01/1917

Service No: 40310

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: C. 18

Cemetery: ST. POL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Additional information: Son of Sidney and Eva Mart, of Hartley End, Winchfield, Hants.

 

Name: MASLEN, ARCHIBALD VICTOR

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class

Regiment/Service: Royal Navy

Unit Text: H.M.S. Conquest

Date of Death: 13/06/1918

Service No: M/3628

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: New ground

Cemetery: HARTLEY WINTNEY (ST. MARY) OLD CHURCHYARD

 

Name: MATTHEWS, ALFRED

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Unit Text: 8th Bn.

Age: 22

Date of Death: 09/09/1917

Service No: 10933

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: V. A. 14

Cemetery: THE HUTS CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of William Henry Matthews, of Tyeland, Befton, Midhurst, Sussex.

 

Name: MATTHEWS, ARTHUR FREDERICK

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Unit Text: 10th Bn.

Date of Death: 29/09/1918

Service No: G/30772

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 106 to 108

Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

 

Name: MILAM, FRANK

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lance Corporal

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 14th Bn.

Age: 21

Date of Death: 12/08/1916

Service No: 14846

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: VIII. B. 135

Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

 

Name: MONAGHAM, C

No record at CWGC.

 

Name: NEVILLE, OLIVER

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Date of Death: 01/07/1916

Service No: 14848

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Addenda Panel 5, Front Terrace

Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

 

Name: NEVILLE, WALTER EDWARD

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Able Seaman

Regiment/Service: Royal Navy

Unit Text: H.M.S. Black Prince

Age: 20

Date of Death: 31/05/1916

Service No: J/17134

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 13

Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of Frank and Kate Neville, of 'Rose View', Waterworks Lane, Farlington, Hants. Native of Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: NEVILLE, WILLIAM BRONTE

Initials: W R (memorial), W B (CWGC)

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Leading Seaman

Service No: 233249

Date of Death: 31/05/1916

Age: 29

Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. Black Prince

Panel Reference: 12

Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Additional Information: Husband of Emily Neville, of 40, Park Cottages, Lower Farnham Rd., Aldershot.

 

Name: NORTHWAY, C C

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lance Corporal

Regiment/Service: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Date of Death: 26/09/1915

Service No: L/10243

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: I. D. 126

Cemetery: CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY

 

Name: PEARCEY, E J R

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Sergeant

Regiment/Service: Royal Berkshire Regiment

Unit Text: 8th Bn.

Date of Death: 12/07/1916

Service No: 18932

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: III. A. 10

Cemetery: GORDON DUMP CEMETERY, OVILLERS-LA BOISSELLE

 

Name: PINK, ERNEST ARTHUR (CWGC), F (memorial)

Initials: E A or F

Rank: Boy 1st Class

Service No: J/60248

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Date of Death: 09/07/1917

Age: 16

Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. Vanguard

Panel Reference: 25.

Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Additional Information: Son of Arthur Henry and Alice Pink, of School Cottage, Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: PIPER, SIDNEY

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Corporal

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Date of Death: 13/08/1915

Service No: 10589

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 125-134 or 223-226 228-229 & 328

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

 

Name: POLING, CHARLES WILLIAM

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Bombardier

Regiment/Service: Royal Marine Artillery

Unit Text: (RMR/IC/32). H.M.S. Good Hope

Age: 32

Date of Death: 01/11/1914

Service No: RMA/8476

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 5

Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of C. A. and J. Poling of Jersey; Husband of Emily Poling, of 10, Duncan Rd., Southsea, Portsmouth.

 

Name: REDDING, THOMAS

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Age: 40

Date of Death: 06/08/1915

Service No: 3/5298

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 125-134 or 223-226 228-229 & 328

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

Additional information: Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Son of Mrs. Annie Redding; husband of Emma Redding, of 21, Council Houses, North Warnborough, Hampshire. Eighteen years' service (Somaliland, 1902-4).

 

Name: RICHARDSON, A

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Wiltshire Regiment

Unit Text: 5th Bn.

Age: 25

Date of Death: 22/01/1917

Service No: 23387

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: XVIII. E. 2

Cemetery: AMARA WAR CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of Jane Richardson, of Nursery Cottage, Hazeley Heath, Hartley Wintney, and the late Walter Richardson.

 

Name: RICHARDSON, E

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Date of Death: 09/08/1916

Service No: 14830

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: A. 27

Cemetery: POTIJZE CHATEAU WOOD CEMETERY

 

Name: RICHARDSON, THOMAS

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Age: 36

Date of Death: 06/08/1915

Service No: 14829

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 125-134 or 223-226 228-229 & 328

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of John and Susannah Richardson, of Ash Cottage, Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: RUSSELL, HAROLD PALMER

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Corporal

Regiment/Service: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

Unit Text: 11th Bn.

Date of Death: 20/09/1917

Service No: 25176

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 42 to 47 and 162

Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

 

Name: SILVER, BERTRAM

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Royal Fusiliers

Unit Text: 8th Bn.

Date of Death: 07/07/1916

Service No: 6056

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A

Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

 

Name: SILVER, BRIAN

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Pioneer

Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers

Unit Text: 5th Field Coy.

Age: 30

Date of Death: 30/03/1918

Service No: 87340

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 10 to 13

Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of Thomas and Anne Silver; husband of Alice Silver, of 48, Whatley Avenue, Merton Park, London.

 

Name: SILVER, CHARLES

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: East Surrey Regiment

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Date of Death: 12/03/1915

Service No: 2053

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 34

Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

 

Name: SMITH, FRANK

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 'E' Coy. 1st Bn.

Age: 29

Date of Death: 25/11/1914

Service No: 7092

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 14.

Cemetery: LANCASHIRE COTTAGE CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of Francis and Elizabeth Smith, of Basingstoke; husband of Alice Mary Smith, of 7, Bunkers Hill, West St., Brighton.

 

Name: STENT, GEORGE HAMILTON CAMP

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death: 21/01/1916

Service No: 2846

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 21 and 63

Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL

 

Name: STENT, WILLIAM

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.

Date of Death: 13/10/1918

Service No: 200773

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Face 6

Memorial: KIRKEE 1914-1918 MEMORIAL

 

Name: SUMNER, GEORGE

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lance Corporal

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Age: 23

Date of Death: 22/04/1918

Service No: 14847

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 73

Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of Frank and Louisa Sumner, of The Lake, Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: TAPLIN, GEORGE WILLIAM

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 14th Bn.

Age: 29

Date of Death: 02/08/1917

Service No: 14896

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 35

Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of George Taplin, of Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: TOCOCK, FRED

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lance Corporal

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 'C' Coy. 1st/4th Bn.

Age: 18

Date of Death: 21/01/1916

Service No: 2853

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 21 and 63

Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of George and Mary Tocock, of The Grove, Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: TOCOCK, H

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Age: 32

Date of Death: 10/07/1915

Service No: 14833

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Sp. Mem. C. 380

Cemetery: TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY

Additional information: Husband of Mrs. Edith Bone (formerly Tocock), of The Hut, Winchfield, Hampshire.

 

Name: TOCOCK, J

No record at CWGC.

 

Name: VILLIERS, HARRY LISTER

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lieutenant

Regiment/Service: Royal Flying Corps

Unit Text: 11th Sqdn.

Secondary Regiment: 6th Dragoons (Inniskilling)

Secondary Unit Text: attd.

Age: 19

Date of Death: 04/02/1917

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: III. T. 7

Cemetery: POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, OVILLERS-LA BOISSELLE

Additional information: Son of Thomas Lister Villiers and Evelyn Hope Villiers, of 46, Hans Mansions, Hans Rd., Chelsea, London.

 

Name: VYLES, JOHN

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Worcestershire Regiment

Unit Text: 10th Bn.

Age: 18

Date of Death: 18/06/1918

Service No: 44199

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Memorial: SOISSONS MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of Emily Vyles, of 7, Cedar Terrace, Phoenix Green, Hartley Wintney, and the late Charles Vyles.

 

Name: WAITE, ALBERT EDWARD

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Age: 25

Date of Death: 19/09/1918

Service No: 202889

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: F. 25

Cemetery: RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY

Additional information: Husband of Ellen Waite, of Lake Cottages, Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: WESTON, LESLIE JAMES

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Unit Text: 2nd/4th Bn.

Age: 21

Date of Death: 14/11/1917

Service No: 235014

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. D. 30

Cemetery: DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN

Additional information: Son of Arthur and Anne Weston, of 'Inholmes', Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: WOOTON, A C

No record at CWGC.

 

Name: GORE, GERALD

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Sergeant

Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Age: 20

Date of Death: 08/04/1945

Service No: 1851679

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot H. Row X. Grave 25.

Cemetery: HARTLEY WINTNEY (ST. MARY) OLD CHURCHYARD

Additional information: Son of John Henry and Winifred Maud Gore, of Phoenix Green, Hants.

 

Name: HARRIS, STANLEY RICHARD

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Age: 26

Date of Death: 13/06/1945

Service No: 5498319

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot H. Row X. Grave 27

Cemetery: HARTLEY WINTNEY (ST. MARY) OLD CHURCHYARD

Additional information: Son of Henry and Ellen Harris, of Phoenix Green. Hants.

 

Name: HARWOOD, EDWARD JAMES

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Ordinary Seaman

Regiment/Service: Royal Navy

Unit Text: H.M.S. Niger

Age: 21

Date of Death: 05/07/1942

Service No: D/JX 287701

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 67, Column 2

Memorial: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Additional information: Son of Horace Edwin and Minnie Harwood.

 

Name: HOOKER, JAMES W

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Able Seaman

Regiment/Service: Royal Navy

Unit Text: H.M.S. Tramp

Age: 28

Date of Death: 23/04/1945

Service No: P/SSX21736

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Brit. Sec. B. B. 15

Cemetery: YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of William and Minnie Hooker, of Phoenix Green, Hants.

 

Name: LONDON, JAMES

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Driver

Regiment/Service: Royal Corps of Signals

Unit Text: 7th Armd. Div. Sigs.

Age: 29

Date of Death: 23/07/1944

Service No: 5501549

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 2. G. 13

Cemetery: HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of Samuel Harry and Rosa Sarah London, of Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: MILNE, REGINALD GEORGE

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment

Unit Text: 2/4th Bn.

Age: 24

Date of Death: 19/03/1943

Service No: 5498355

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: II. K. 18

Cemetery: NAPLES WAR CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of George and Evelyne Dorothy Milne; husband of Gwendoline Milne, of Phoenix Green, Hants.

 

Name: RUSS, WILFRED CYRIL

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Marine

Regiment/Service: Royal Marines

Unit Text: H.M.S. Gosling.

Age: 18

Date of Death: 18/11/1942

Service No: PO/X 113705

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot G. Row U. Grave 13

Cemetery: HARTLEY WINTNEY (ST. MARY) OLD CHURCHYARD

Additional information: Son of William Albert and Olive Russ; grandson of Mrs. A. Russ, of Hartley Wintney.

 

Name: STOOP, A F

One uncertain entry at CWGC.

 

Name: SYDENHAM-CLARKE, MONTAGUE FELL

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Major

Regiment/Service: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Age: 33

Date of Death: 30/11/1941

Service No: 41780

Awards: M B E, M C

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 2. C. 16

Cemetery: KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA

Additional information: Son of Ernest Sydenham-Clarke and of Phoebe Sydenham-Clarke (née Fell), of Ootacamund, Nilgiri, India; husband of Averill Sydenham-Clarke, of Kotagiri, Nilgiri.

 

Name: WATTS, THOMAS BERNARD

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Lance Corporal

Regiment/Service: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Age: 22

Date of Death: 27/11/1942

Service No: 7636531

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 11. C. 22

Cemetery: TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY

Additional information: Son of Thomas and Ruth Watts, of Dipley, Hants.

1914 -1918

In Honoured Memory of

The Men of this Parish

Who Gave their lives in the Great War

 

William Henry Ager

Arthur Ames

Thomas Betts

James Burrell

Walter William Buxton

William Ernest Bygrave

Joseph Campbell

William Campbell

Arthur Frank Caston

George Henry Cocks

Benjamin Copper

Solomon Corder

Joseph Dunham

Edward Florence

Archie George Foster

Charles Foyster

George Gosling

John Hardy Senior

John Hardy Junior

Sydney John Hipperson

Robert Ernest Jarvis

Robert Lemmon

Sydney Walter Lincoln

Dennis Mann

Walter Palmer

Leonard Harry Pert

George Roxby

Horace Saunders

Gordon Snelling

George Leonard Tench

George Harold Thompson

Edward Robert Tooke

Arthur William Townshend

Percy Alfred Trower

George William Turner

 

May they rest in peace

 

When it comes to name discrepancies this has probably been the single worst memorial I’ve ever done research on. Hopefully I’ve identified the most likely individuals but as usual, all corrections \ additional information is most welcome.

 

For more on each name, see comments.

(SDGW - Soldiers Who Died in the Great War

CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Norlink - Norfolk County Picture Archive)

 

www.fleshonfirethemovie.com - Feature Documentary Film, with Actor Donnie Faught (aka River Faught) www.riverfaught.com

 

“Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream” is a feature documentary film that takes the viewer on an intimate roller coaster of pain and joy as actor Donnie Faught climbs his way out of the backwoods of Arkansas to success in the City of Angels. Along this journey, passionate (and volatile) relationships are ignited, but some are agonizingly sacrificed, all for the ultimate dream of making it on the big screen. Faught’s unwavering determination to succeed in an industry that swallows people whole and spits them out broken, is a testament to his burning passion that refuses to be extinguished.

 

A Film by: Benjamin Ironside Koppin.

 

Producer: Matthew Koppin.

See more about Matthew at www.ironside-productions.com

 

Purchase River Faught products at www.riverfaught.com and www.fleshonfirethemovie.com

With the 200 anniversary of The Royal Yacht Squadron over the weekend we had a few VIPs visit Portsmouth Harbour. The more eagle eyed among you will notice the Royal Standard of Prince Edward flying in this yacht.

 

Superyacht Leander G is owned by Sir Donald Gosling. The yacht was built in 2006 by Peenewerft. The yacht is a succesful charter yacht and can often be found in the Cote d'Azur. The has her home berth in Antibes.

 

Sir Donald Gosling is co-founder of the National Car Parks and is estimated to be worth GBP 500 million.

 

Momma decided it was time for a Mallard family swim. They need to be careful because the water is full of snapping turtles that are hungry. Best of luck Mom!

 

An image may be purchased at edward-peterson.pixels.com/featured/mallard-family-swim-e...

Naomi Watts est une actrice et productrice britannique.

 

Née en Grande-Bretagne en 1968, Naomi Watts passe son enfance en Australie, avant d'y entamer sa carrière d'actrice en 1986, avec For love alone, où elle côtoie Sam Neill et Hugo Weaving. Devenue amie avec Nicole Kidman, elle mettra cependant plus longtemps qu'elle à percer, puisque pendant que celle-ci creuse son trou à Hollywood, Naomi se contente d'un second rôle dans Tank girl de Rachel Talalay (1995), ou d'une voix additionnelle dans Babe, le cochon dans la ville de George Miller (1998). Patiente, la comédienne attend tranquillement son heure, et ne rate donc pas la chance que lui offre David Lynch en lui confiant l'un des rôles principaux de Mulholland Drive, en 2001 : son interprétation de l'ingénue Diane marque les esprits des spectateurs du monde entier, et lui vaut de nombreuses récompenses comme celles décernées par le National Board Review, la National Society of Film Critics, ou la Chicago Film Critics Association.

Succès public et critique, Mulholland Drive propulse Naomi tout en haut de l'affiche, à tel point que c'est son seul nom qui vend L'Ascenseur (niveau 2), tourné avant le film de David Lynch, mais qui débarqué sur les écrans français en janvier 2002. Cette même année, la comédienne reste dans le domaine de l'épouvante, et s'illustre dans Le Cercle - The Ring de Gore Verbinski, remake du long métrage d'Hideo Nakata... sous la direction duquel elle tournera la suite, succès oblige : Le Cercle - The Ring 2 (2004). Entre temps, Naomi Watts aura trouvé de quoi se rendre indispensable, en apparaissant aux génériques du Divorce de James Ivory (2003) ou J'adore Huckabees (2004), comédie existentielle de David O. Russell, où elle a pour partenaires Jude Law ou Jason Schwartzman.

Mais c'est dans 21 grammes, devant la caméra nerveuse du Mexicain Alejandro González Inárritu qu'elle livre l'une des ses performances les plus intenses, aux côtés de Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro et Charlotte Gainsbourg. Performance qui lui vaut d'attirer le regard de Peter Jackson, à la recherche de l'héroïne de son King Kong. C'est ainsi que Naomi se retrouve sur le toit de l'Empire State Building, perchée sur l'énorme main d'un gorille géant, pour sa première participation à un blockbuster, dont le succès lui donne un crédit et une marge de manoeuvre encore plus importants. On peut sinon la retrouver à l'affiche du thriller Stay de Marc Forster, avec Ewan McGregor et Ryan Gosling, ou encore dans le drame Le Voile des illusions, où elle donne la réplique à Edward Norton et Liev Schreiber.

Naomi Watts entame par la suite un sombre virage, en plongeant dans l'enfer de la mafia russe chez David Cronenberg (Les Promesses de l'ombre), avant d'être l'une des victimes des Funny Games mis en place par Michael Haneke, en plein exercice d'auto-remake, puis d'incarner une avocate enquêtant aux côtés de Clive Owen dans L'Enquête - The International. En 2010, elle revient à la comédie sans laisser le thriller, partageant l'affiche de Vous allez rencontrer un bel et sombre inconnu mis en scène par Woody Allen, avec Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin et Anthony Hopkins, puis retrouvant Sean Penn dans le Fair Game, de Doug Liman (La Mémoire dans la peau).

En 2011, elle touche à l'Histoire en incarnant la secrétaire personnelle d'Edgar Hoover sous la direction de Clint Eastwood dans J. Edgar, puis joue les voisines bienveillantes dans le très mal reçu thriller schizophrène Dream House. Le réalisateur espagnol Juan Antonio Bayona lui donne alors un rôle tremplin vers une seconde nomination à l'Oscar en adaptant l'histoire vraie d'une famille écartelée par le tsunami qui frappa la Thaïlande en 2004. Dans l'ambitieux film catastrophe The Impossible (2012), elle est vibrante de courage et de ténacité. On la retrouve l'année suivante devant la caméra d'Anne Fontaine pour Perfect Mothers, où elle partage l'affiche avec Robin Wright.

Après avoir incarné le rôle-titre de Diana, très mal reçu biopic consacré à la célèbre princesse morte en 1997, Naomi Watts rejoint la distribution de l'oscarisé Birdman et prend part à Divergente 2 et 3 via le personnage de Evelyn Johnson-Eaton. Femme du boxeur solide comme un rock Chuck Wepner dans Outsider et de Woddy Harrelson dans Le Château de verre, l'actrice est également présente à la télévision : elle retrouve ainsi David Lynch pour la troisième saison de Twin Peaks et incarne une thérapeute jouant à un jeu dangereux dans Gypsy.

 

Date et lieu de naissance : 28 septembre 1968, Shoreham, Royaume-Uni.

www.fleshonfirethemovie.com - Feature Documentary Film

 

“Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream” is a feature documentary film that takes the viewer on an intimate roller coaster of pain and joy as actor Donnie Faught climbs his way out of the backwoods of Arkansas to success in the City of Angels. Along this journey, passionate (and volatile) relationships are ignited, but some are agonizingly sacrificed, all for the ultimate dream of making it on the big screen. Faught’s unwavering determination to succeed in an industry that swallows people whole and spits them out broken, is a testament to his burning passion that refuses to be extinguished.

 

A Film by: Benjamin Ironside Koppin.

 

www.fleshonfirethemovie.com

 

Deborah Brister Bio:

 

Deborah Brister is the Promotional and Outreach Coordinator for Radical Humility Productions. This role entails reaching out to first tier or primary audiences for our current film, "Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream." Primary audiences include artists, such as actors, musicians and other creatives that give up everything to fulfill their need to express themselves through their art. Another primary audience includes people with family members who have been diagnosed with cancer. Both cancer patients and their loved ones can feel a sense of isolation and alienation, as well as a feeling of helplessness, especially if family and friends cannot be with their loved ones who are cancer patients. As Promotional and Outreach Coordinator, we want these audiences to see and feel that they are not alone. The film, while edgy in nature, is inspiring to many, with it's take home message (as Donnie Faught's daughter so eloquently said at the end of the film) "Stick with your dream. Follow through with it."

www.fleshonfirethemovie.com - Feature Documentary Film, with Actor Donnie Faught (aka River Faught) www.riverfaught.com

 

“Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream” is a feature documentary film that takes the viewer on an intimate roller coaster of pain and joy as actor Donnie Faught climbs his way out of the backwoods of Arkansas to success in the City of Angels. Along this journey, passionate (and volatile) relationships are ignited, but some are agonizingly sacrificed, all for the ultimate dream of making it on the big screen. Faught’s unwavering determination to succeed in an industry that swallows people whole and spits them out broken, is a testament to his burning passion that refuses to be extinguished.

 

A Film by: Benjamin Ironside Koppin.

 

Purchase River Faught products at www.riverfaught.com and www.fleshonfirethemovie.com

 

We are very excited to have worked with model/actor Keifer Grimm. Thanks Keifer for modeling our clothing for Flesh On Fire: Addicted To A Dream. You can check out Keifer's look at our film's store store.donniefaught.com/

www.fleshonfirethemovie.com - Feature Documentary Film, with Actor Donnie Faught (aka River Faught) www.riverfaught.com

 

“Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream” is a feature documentary film that takes the viewer on an intimate roller coaster of pain and joy as actor Donnie Faught climbs his way out of the backwoods of Arkansas to success in the City of Angels. Along this journey, passionate (and volatile) relationships are ignited, but some are agonizingly sacrificed, all for the ultimate dream of making it on the big screen. Faught’s unwavering determination to succeed in an industry that swallows people whole and spits them out broken, is a testament to his burning passion that refuses to be extinguished.

 

A Film by: Benjamin Ironside Koppin.

See more about Benjamin at www.ironside-productions.com

 

Purchase River Faught products at www.riverfaught.com and www.fleshonfirethemovie.com

www.fleshonfirethemovie.com - Feature Documentary Film, with Actor Donnie Faught (aka River Faught) www.riverfaught.com

 

“Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream” is a feature documentary film that takes the viewer on an intimate roller coaster of pain and joy as actor Donnie Faught climbs his way out of the backwoods of Arkansas to success in the City of Angels. Along this journey, passionate (and volatile) relationships are ignited, but some are agonizingly sacrificed, all for the ultimate dream of making it on the big screen. Faught’s unwavering determination to succeed in an industry that swallows people whole and spits them out broken, is a testament to his burning passion that refuses to be extinguished.

 

A Film by: Benjamin Ironside Koppin.

 

Producer: Kristin Koppin.

See more about Kristin at www.ironside-productions.com

  

Purchase River Faught products at www.riverfaught.com and www.fleshonfirethemovie.com

   

www.fleshonfirethemovie.com - Feature Documentary Film, with Actor Donnie Faught (aka River Faught) www.riverfaught.com

 

“Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream” is a feature documentary film that takes the viewer on an intimate roller coaster of pain and joy as actor Donnie Faught climbs his way out of the backwoods of Arkansas to success in the City of Angels. Along this journey, passionate (and volatile) relationships are ignited, but some are agonizingly sacrificed, all for the ultimate dream of making it on the big screen. Faught’s unwavering determination to succeed in an industry that swallows people whole and spits them out broken, is a testament to his burning passion that refuses to be extinguished.

 

A Film by: Benjamin Ironside Koppin.

 

Purchase River Faught products at www.riverfaught.com and www.fleshonfirethemovie.com