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Re: HMS Cressy sunk 1914 - info pls
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 04 April 12 22:35 BST (UK) »
Hello Martin!  And yet more wonderful information!  ;D  Thank you!  Pat
ARCHIBALD/ARCHBALD: Tweedmouth, NBL; CHARLTON: Ponteland, NBL;
ERRINGTON: West Denton, NBL; 
FAIRLESS: Longbenton, NBL;
HARDING: Hollinside, Co. Durham;
KING: Newcastle-on-Tyne & Berwickshire;
LOCKEY: Ryton, Whickham, Co. Durham & YKS; NICHOLSON: Ponteland, Newburn, NBL; PAXTON: Norham, NBL;
PAULIN: Berwickshire; REAY, Ponteland, NBL;
SCOTT: Norham, NBL; SELBY: Tweedmouth, NBL;
SLIGH: Berwickshire; SPOOR: Whickham & Ryton;
WIDDRINGTON: NBL

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Re: HMS Cressy sunk 1914 - info pls
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 05 April 12 17:01 BST (UK) »
Hi

In 1900 he was serving on HMS Endymion as a Midshipman, and was with the Naval Brigade that under Admiral Seymour lifted the Siege of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. The following link will take you to the page in the London Gazette where he is mentioned, but if you go to the first page of the dispatch from Seymour, you will get a better understanding of what he was actually involved in.

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27235/pages/6099


For this service he would have received the 1900 China Medal.

Martin

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« Reply #11 on: Thursday 05 April 12 17:12 BST (UK) »
Hello again Martin!   Really quite impressive.  THANKS!   Pat
ARCHIBALD/ARCHBALD: Tweedmouth, NBL; CHARLTON: Ponteland, NBL;
ERRINGTON: West Denton, NBL; 
FAIRLESS: Longbenton, NBL;
HARDING: Hollinside, Co. Durham;
KING: Newcastle-on-Tyne & Berwickshire;
LOCKEY: Ryton, Whickham, Co. Durham & YKS; NICHOLSON: Ponteland, Newburn, NBL; PAXTON: Norham, NBL;
PAULIN: Berwickshire; REAY, Ponteland, NBL;
SCOTT: Norham, NBL; SELBY: Tweedmouth, NBL;
SLIGH: Berwickshire; SPOOR: Whickham & Ryton;
WIDDRINGTON: NBL
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