MISCELLANEOUS

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Item 1: Photocopied Certificate of Discharge for William Skelton, Royal Marines.


Item 2: Farewell Entertainment programme (16 June 1916) for HMS Prince of Wales to the Lena Ashwell Concert Party.


Item 3: Programme for the "Cheer Up" Minstrels of the United States Navy, Nov 1918, original with photocopy.


Item 4: Photocopied Menu "Orders for Night Attack", HMS Blake 1909; Donor J Hellens; see RN Correspondence File.


Item 5: Photographs of a New Year card from the Royal Naval Division.


Item 6: Photocopied extract from the Macclesfield Grammar School Magazine showing telegraphic summary of events leading to the destruction of the German raider "Emden"; Donor Mather and DC Curphey.


Item 7: Photocopied extract from the Naval Review, April 1969, edition Eighty One describing Royal Navy mobilisation in 1914.


Item 8: Embroidered Royal Arms adapted with flags and naval motif.


Item 9: Notes on the Naval Discipline Act: Donor Captain HB Crane.


Item 10: Photocopy of signalled message from the King to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Fleet Auxiliary and Mercantile Marine at the Armistice; Donor Canon Botterill.


Item 11: Letter to Mrs Corbett from Boy Seaman WC Fitch serving aboard HMS Lion describing his routine and training; Donor Dame Margery Corbett Ashley.


Item 12: Correspondence re Petty Officer BM Masters who served aboard Coastal Motor Boats in the Baltic in 1919 and took part in the Kronstadt raid; "Sunday Times" magazine with article describing this raid and also his photograph; see also GC Steele, Victoria Cross.


Item 13: Midshipman Eric Stileman's Conduct Certificate signed by Admiral Beatty (26 Jan 1918); Donor Mrs Stileman; see Women's Section.


Item 14: Letter from Stoker R Russell serving aboard HMS Lark thanking Miss Grose for knitted comforts (20 July 1918), he being the brother of the Grose household cook; Donor Mrs Dickenson (sister of Miss Grose) via Hilda Sebastian.


Item 15: Letter (22 Oct 1916) from Donald Graham serving aboard HMS Defiance to a compatriot Duncan Fraser describing his life aboard a Trawler patrolling in the English Channel and the North Sea; Donor Dr WS MacDonald (see GS) brother-in-law of Duncan Fraser.


Item 16: NOT USED


Item 17: Photographs and communications extracts concerning the conducting of ex-King Carl and Queen Zita from Budapest (Oct/Nov 1921), sent by Captain Snagge, Senior Naval Officer Danube Flotilla to Lieutenant Commander Johnson, Officer Commanding HMS Ladybird; Donor Dr AJ Danby; see Research Correspondence.


Item 18: Photocopied uncompleted typescript recollections of Naval service, Cadets life at Osborne and aboard HMS Talbot and later as Midshipmen in the Orkneys. Donor Commander FJ Chambers.


Item 19: Photograph of St Vincent Term Royal Naval College Osborne 1914; Passing Out Exam results Dec 1916; Short letter from Lord Frazer to Commander WW Thornely.


Item 20: Photocopied letter from Rear Admiral, Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth notifying the award of the Distinguished Service Order to Lieutenant Booth; Sketch of the "Q" ship "Stonecrop".


Item 21: Photocopied Form RNV-10 Royal Naval Volunteer Service Certificate of Ordinary Seaman A Devlin Royal Naval Division.


Item 22; Photocopied souvenir publication HMS "Suffolk Coast" with a history of the vessel used as a "Q" ship. Donor OL Waldron; see Research Correspondence.


Item 23: Midshipman AH Maxwell- Hyslop; Anecdote supposedly related by him concerning Royal Naval Air Service Airship Service; Photocopied Naval Armistice Terms and inspection report on the surrendered German Battleships. Donor Captain A Maxwell-Hyslop (son).


Item 24: Royal Naval Volunteer Service, Service Certificate of Leading Seaman SJ Moyle Royal Naval Division.


Item 25: Commission Scroll of Sub-Lieutenant A MacLean Royal Naval Reserve (17 Feb 1951).


Item 26: Commemorative Booklet "The Cruise of HMS Malaya" 1921; Loose sheet on explosives; Donor Mrs E Bindloss.


Item 27: Commemorative Booklet "HMS Cornwall" (Aug 1912); Donor Mrs E Bindloss.


Item 28: Post-1918 instructional notebook of the later Commander GBH Francis; Donor PF Francis; see Research Correspondence.


Item 29: Typescript anecdote re the blowing up of HMS Vanguard in 1917; Donor Captain JR Griseman per Captain V Lamb, Royal Navy.


Item 30: Yeoman of Signals WY Cottewell; Post card from a German sailor to W Crump; Tinted photograph of a sailor; Photograph of "HMS Jed"; Buckingham Palace Memorial Card and various postcards; Donor Mrs DM Beckinsale (daughter); see Domestic Front Correspondence.


Item 31: Surgeon Lieutenant QH Richardson; 2 photographs of the crew of the Sloop "HMS Odin" pre-1914; Photocopied page from the 1915 Navy List showing the officers of "HMS Odin"; Additional material relating to "HMS Achilles" at the Battle of the River Plate in 1939; Donor Lieutenant Commander PHG Richardson (son).


Item 32: Commander V Smyth Royal Navy; (Tape 684); Photographs and various papers referring to his life 1914-1918 as a schoolboy Cadet and as a junior Naval officer; Typescript of a letter from Lieutenant MPB Portman re Battle of Coronel.


Item 33: F Norrish; Typescript recollections with photographs; Form S1306 Protection and Identity Certificate; Form S-1245B Torpedo History Sheet; Form S-459 Service Certificate.


Item 34: R Turner, Royal Naval Division Nelson Battalion; Form RNV-10 Service Record; Form M183 Certificate for Wounds and Hurts; Letter from RNVR Benevolent Fund; Metal badge "Armentieres"; Donor R Marshall (son-in-law).


Item 35: Sub-Lieutenant RS Pilcher, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; British War Medal; ID Disc; Cap Badge; Buttons; Braid Epaulettes; Army Book 439 Officers Record of Services; Pocket Prayer Book; Correspondence between PH Liddle and Executors of RS Pilcher's will; Army Book 108 Stores Voucher; Telegrams; Form S-542 Route Order and Travelling Expense Sheet; Booklet "Of Queen's Gardens" by John Ruskin.


Item 36: Sub-Lieutenant CF Midgley; various papers and Service documents (held at bottom of Cabinet 2); Donor Mrs GE Brewin (niece); see Research Correspondence.


Item 37: Signalman FH Johnstone; Photocopy of Transfer List; Photocopies of Absent Voter Forms; Photocopy of Forms G53 Station Card HMS Vernon and S1306 Protection and Identity Certificate.


Item 38: Rev BN Carver; Photocopies of various papers; Donor Mrs WM Carver.


Item 39: Sergeant F Blackman, Royal Marine Light Infantry; R381 Certificate of Qualification for Promotion; Army Form B2077 Discharge Certificate; Royal Marines Certificate of Discharge; Form S-535/R-138 Service Record; Service Certificates for Royal Marines Forms S1241 and R-138.


Item 40: Public Record Office photocopy of officers' accomodation on the upper deck of HMS Orion; Donor JM Guest; see Research Correspondence.


Item 41: Photocopied Certificate of Service; Two photographs of Stoker John Michael Burns; Donor Miss S Colville (grand-daughter); see Research Correspondence.


Item 42: Form S-239a Conduct Sheet for Signalman JR Booer; Two letters written by him to his future wife; Donor TG Booer (son); see also in Domestic Front Agriculture Dorothy Mullinder (future Mrs Booer) and East Africa W Townsend; see TG Booer letter (1 Jan 1988) in Research Correspondence.


Item 43: Description of the sinking of HMS Pegasus by the German Cruiser Konigsberg (20 Sept 1914) taken from an article in the Naval Review, Vol 55, No 2, 1967; Donor Dr GF Hattersley-Smith.


Item 44: Sub-Lieutenant Norman Middleton, Royal Naval Reserve of HM Armed Yacht "Sanda"; Photographs; Cutting re sinking of "Sanda" 25 9 1915; Memorials in Portsmouth and his local Church St Gabriels in Sunderland; Donor Mrs P Brennan; see also Mrs Mildred Annie Lees in D/F Nursing.


Item 45: Photographs of Ophir House at Scapa Flow including officers of HMS Defence sunk at Jutland; Photocopy of Visitors' Book of Ophir House where the owner Mrs Johnstone kept "open house" for officers based at Scapa Flow; Various letters to Mrs Johnstone; Signatures of the Admirals who fought at Jutland; Donor Mrs Crosland (daughter of Mrs Johnstone); see also Scapa Flow and Research Correspondence.


Item 46: Admiralty confirmation of death of 3rd Engineer David Edward Duggan of HMS Ascot (10 Nov 1918); Donor Miss Angela Wilkinson (niece); see Research Correspondence.


Item 47: Edward Wilkinson, Royal Naval Reserve; Various documents on his appointment as Skipper of Trawlers; Donor Mrs Nancy Andrews (grand-daughter); see Research Correspondence.


Item 48: TH Wood, Engine Room Artificer; Form D-573 Notification of Account No in the Naval Savings Bank; Pensions Leaflet MPL 70; Sailors Ration Book; Civilian Unemployment Card 1915; Patriotic post card; Donor Mrs J Armstrong (grand-daughter); see Research Correspondence.


Item 49: Robert Holmes, Royal Naval Reserve, Second Hand; 2 photographs; Photocopy of his Protection and Identity Certificate Form S1306; Photocopies of letters.


Item 50: Frank Hague, Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer. Letter from Ministry of Defence with information of his Service Record including the award of the Distinguished Service Medal in 1915 to his daughter Mrs Mabel Harrison; Photocopy of Birth Certificate; see Research Correspondence.


Item 53: James Sweeney, Royal Naval Reserve; Mss recollections of his Service and 2 photographs.


Item 54: Surgeon Prob.RE Ford, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; Italian postcard of Alexandria Railway Station; Documentation re officers travelling by troop train on Cherbourg-Taranto route; Donor Dr PTC Lord.


Item 55: Description of the sinking of the "Otranto" in 1918; Details of entitlement to the Messina medal for Petty Officer's, Spinner and Peakes; Photocopy of letter from Roger Perkins regarding research; Donor A Hitchen.


Item 56: Able Seaman Marshall Spencer, Royal Navy; Identity Disc; Booklet "Notes on Naval Ammunition 1917". (See also RNMN (Rec) 097: Spencer, M.) Donor Miss M E Spencer (daughter).


Item 57: Percy Pilkington, Private, Royal Marines 1917-1918; Documents relating to 'Call Up' for military service; Army Form B216 and R162 Royal Marines -Travel Passes; List of German warships which surrendered on 21 Nov 1918; Details of Naval Prize Fund; Letter re final settlement of Mess Bill; Donor Roy Blyth.


Item 58: AH Trobridge, Able Seaman, Royal Navy; Photocopied documents relating to Naval service; Documents relating to destruction of U-27; Details of share of Naval Prize Fund; Donor AC Trobridge (son) (cross-refs to HMS Halcyon, U-Boats (destruction of ) and Prize Certificates).


Item 59: JH Bateman, Able Seaman, Royal Navy; Torpedo Drill Book 1914; Donor Michael Kay.


Item 60: Arthur Charles Smith, Petty Officer, Royal Navy; Photocopy of Form S 459 Service Certificate from 1912 to 1944; Donor JP Downes (nephew).


Item 61: Able Seaman Sidebotham, Royal Navy; 3 photographs whilst serving in HMS Meteor; Donor Roy Blyth.


Item 62: Press cutting re 100th birthday of Harold Stiff, Royal Australian Navy.


Item 63: Press cutting re Frank Brandt, Royal Navy re his name being added to the Worthing War Memorial.


Item 64: Photocopies of press cuttings re the sinking of HMS Vanguard.


Item 65: Alexander (Sandy) Wilson, Able Seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; 1914/15 Star, British War Medal; Victory Medal (served at the Battle of Jutland); Donor Susan Griesbach (on behalf of late Mrs Christine Wilson), Dec 1999.

Biography or history

Miscellaneous papers relating to the RN (Royal Navy) and the MN (Merchant Navy).

System of arrangement

'RNMN Miscellaneous' can be found at the end of the alphabetical sequence of the RNMN Section.

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