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(Listing continued from ADM 137/205/7). Folios 465-470: Volume IV, Appendix I (continued):...

Catalogue reference: ADM 137/205/8

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ADM 137/205/8
Date
1914-1917
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(Listing continued from ADM 137/205/7).

Folios 465-470: Volume IV, Appendix I (continued): Despatch dated 26 June 1916 by Captain Wilfrid Nunn, Senior Naval Officer, Mesopotamia, to the DA and QMG IEF 'D', Basra, of officers and men mentioned in despatches deserving of recognition for good or distinguished services from 9 April 1915 to 30 April 1916. For the Euphrates blockade, (folio 466), Commander Cathcart Romer Wason, RN; Lieutenant Commander Arthur George Seymour, DSO, RN; Lieutenant Cecil G Hallett, Royal Indian Marine; Lieutenant Commander Edgar Cookson, VC, DSO, RN, (since killed); Lieutenant Francis W Lyte, DSC, RNR; Chief Petty Officer W J Toye, ON 147586. For the Amara operations, (folio 466), Commander Colin Mackenzie, DSO, RN; Lieutenant George E Harden, RN; Lieutenant in Command Mark Singleton, DSO, RN; Lieutenant in Command Irving M Palmer, DSC, RN; Lieutenant in Command William V H Harris, DSC, RN; Sub Lieutenant Reginald H Lilley, DSC, RN; Chief Petty Officer A J Roberts; Leading Seaman W H Rowe; Petty Officer John K Mackay, ON 195819; Signalman John B Murray, ON J8870; Corporal Thomas Bax, Royal West Kent Regiment; Private Robert Pannel, Royal West Kent Regiment serving on board HMS Comet at this time; Paymaster Sydney J Wrigh, RN. For the Nasiriyah operations, July to August 1915, (folios 466-467), Lieutenant Commander Arthur George Seymour, DSO, RN; Lieutenant Hugh F Curry, DSC, RN; Lieutenant W V H Harris, DSC, RN; Lieutenant Cuthbert H Heath-Caldwell, DSC, RN; Lieutenant Commander Charles Cowley, RNVR (since killed); Lieutenant W King, RNR; Lieutenant Oswald Szulezewski, RNVR; Sub Lieutenant Ernest S Waters, RNVR; Sub Lieutenant Ernest T Grimett, RNVR; Sub Lieutenant Robert Cowley, RNVR; Petty Officer Alfred Turner, ON 163870; Petty Officer Frederick S Maunder, ON 236360; Petty Officer Thomas C Wormleighton, ON 237768; Leading Seaman Harold R Hearn, ON 236078; Able Seaman Robert W Pawling, ON 223000; Stoker Petty Officer Bernard Green, ON 293726; Stoker Edward J Ewington, ON 108337; Petty Officer Thomas D Coleman, ON 179687; Acting Chief Yeoman of the Signals John G Brown, ON 192858; Corporal Joseph Edward Edwin, RMLI PO/G/15639; Stoker D Pead, ON V575; Petty Officer George Smith, ON 194836; Leading Seaman A S Pym, ON 39688 RNR. For Kut-al-Amara operations, 28 September 1915, (folio 467), Lieutenant Commander Edgar Cookson, VC, DSO, RN, who was killed while gallantly attempting single handed to cut the wire connecting the obstruction across the Tigris; Major Gordon, DSO, RMLI (Wing Commander, RNAS); Lieutenant M Singleton, DSO, RN; Lieutenant W V H Harris, DSC, RN; Lieutenant Lionel C P Tudway DSC, RN; Flight Lieutenant Vivian G Blackburn, DSC, RNAS; Surgeon Dermot Loughlin, DSC, RN; James H Brown, DSC; 2nd Officer SS Medjidieh, Private Arthur G May, RMLI, Ch13960; Leading Seaman Ernest Sparks ON J2627; Leading Signalman Gilbert Wallis, ON 222726; Leading Seaman William N Slade, ON 204953; Petty Officer John O Traill, ON M213051; Able Seaman Alan Burrows, ON 219730; Leading Seaman Thomas H Thompson, ON 183542; Leading Seaman Philip Leonard Gunn, ON 310901; Leading Seaman George Whitfield, ON 182706; Lieutenant M A B Johnson RN, in command of naval 4.7 inch guns; Private H Morris, 2nd Dorset Regiment on board Sumana; Private C R Johnson, 2nd Dorset Regiment on board Sumana; Private E Mallon, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry on board Shaitan; Private F Dean, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry on board Shaitan.

Folio 471 : Volume IV, Appendix I (continued): Despatch dated 10 July 1916 from Captain Wilfrid Nunn, Senior Naval Officer Mesopotamia, HMS Proserpine to the Commander in Chief, H.M. Ships and Vessels, East Indies and Egypt Station.

Folios 472-473: Volume IV, Appendix I (continued): Despatch dated 2 August 1916 from Captain Wilfid Nunn. Casualties on HMS Greenfly listed as: Sub-Lieutenant Calude Denman, RNVR, very slightly wounded in back; Walter Butcher Able Seaman, dangerous gunshot wound in chest; Albert Victor Cook Able Seaman, wounded in face.

Folios 474-488: Volume IV, Appendix II- military intelligence.

Folios 474-475: Volume IV, Appendix I (continued): List of Turkish units dated 10 January 1916.

Folio 476: Volume IV, Appendix I (continued): Estimate of Turkish forces, Tigris Line dated 3 April 1916.

Folios 477-482: Volume IV, Appendix I (continued): Summary of Intelligence dated 28 February 1916, including structure of Turkish Forces (folio 482).

Folios 483-488: Volume IV, Appendix I (continued): Summary of Intelligence dated 19 March 1916.

Listing continued in ADM 137/205/9.

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