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Acheson-Grey, Lt R	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Azavedo, 1/Clerk P	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Barnes, Gnr J C	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Baugh, Comdr G J	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Belton, Gnr R W	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Blunt, Carp C C	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Bowden, Lt A St C	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Brumby, Asst Surgn W H K	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Ellis, Engr J F	QSA (0). RIMS Clive. China (0) (Engr J F Ellis RIMS Clive) DNW Jun 06 £550.
Goldsmith, Lt O	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Goodridge, Capt W S	QSA (0)
Guppy, Asst Eng E	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Hamilton, Sub Lt A H J	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Harold, Lt A E	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Holland, Cmdr C E	QSA (1) Nat
Hutchinson, Lt F J B	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Jones, Lt Benjamin Henry	QSA (0). RIMS Canning. He joined the Royal Indian Marine in December 1891; Lieutenant, 27 November 1896; Commander, 13 October 1907; Captain, 1 January 1918; Retired 1920. Captain Jones was awarded the CBE London Gazette 3 June 1919. China (0). DNW Oct 96 £180. DNW Jun 06 £550.
Lamb, Ch Eng F S	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Mohamed Essoo Mohamed Kassim, 1/Sto	QSA (1) Nat
Moilliet Sub Lt H M K	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Nutter, Eng J H	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Perrett, 3/Clerk C	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Piffard, Comdr Albert J G	QSA (0). RIMS Canning Albert Piffard was born in Calcutta, India, on 10 November 1861 and was Apprenticed to Messrs Thomas & James Harrison of Liverpool. He served at sea for two years and for a short time worked in a solicitor's office, and served on board Glenroy and Night Hawk for six months as an Ordinary Seaman. He joined the Indian Marine as a 4th Grade Officer on probation aboard the steamer Koel on 9 March 1880 and transferred to HUGH ROSE two weeks later. He was confirmed as a 4th Grade Officer whilst aboard Koel on 26 November 1880 before joining Dagma in December 1880, and Amberwitch in November 1881. Service aboard the latter ship in Egyptian waters earned him the dated Egypt medal and the Khedive's Star. He served next aboard Tenasserim (September 1882) and Czarewitch (April 1883). Having passed the Board of Trade Examination for 2nd Mate on 12 July 1883, he was promoted to 3rd Grade Officer on 12 August 1883, and unusually was immediately promoted to 2nd Grade Officer with the same seniority on joining Amberwitch in August 1883. He subsequently served in this rank aboard CANNING (April 1885), Sir William Peel (October 1885), CANNING (August 1887) and Irrawaddy (August 1887) during which period he served in support of military operations during the Burma War. Promoted to 1st Grade Officer on 1 January 1888, he next served in this rank aboard Sladen (April 1889), Enterprise (April 1889), Nancowry, in Command (August 1890), Dalhousie (September 1890), and Irrawaddy as Lieutenant In Command (October 1890). He reverted to the rank of Lieutenant on joining Warren Hastings (November 1894), LAWRENCE, in Command (October 1895), and Elphinstone, in Command (December 1896). He was promoted to 3rd Grade Commander on 8 March 1897 and subsequently served in this rank aboard Minto (August 1897), Dalhousie (November 1897), Minto (December 1897), and Canning (March 1899). In this latter vessel he served firstly in South African waters and secondly in Chinese waters thereby gaining another two campaign medals. He reverted to 3rd Grade Commander on joining Dalhousie in November 1900 and continued to serve in this rank on joining Hardinge (May 1901), Clive (September 1901), and Hardinge (March 1903). He served in Hardinge in Somali waters in support of the military operations in East Africa and was promoted to 2nd Grade Commander on 14 September 1903. In October 1904 he was posted to England for duty with the building of the RIMS Dufferin which he was to Command. This was his last seagoing appointment prior to retiring on 13 July 1907, having served in the Royal Indian Marine for 27 years. Egypt (0) (Mr IGS Amberwitch), ISG (2) Burma 85-7 Burma 87-9 (2d gde Officer HMIMS Sir W Peel), QSA (0) Commr RIMS Canning) China (0) Commr RIMS Canning), AGS (1) Somaliland 02-04 (Comdr RIMS HArdinge), Khedive Star. DNW Feb 97 £1,300. DNW Mar 07 £2,500.
Reynolds, Asst Eng T C	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Rodriquez, 1/Clerk T	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Rowland, Lt A	QSA (1) Nat
Sheikh Aboo, 1/Lascar	QSA (1) Nat
Sheikh Alli Baba, 1/Lascar	QSA (1) Nat
Sheikh Erahim, 2/Engine Driver	QSA (1) Nat
Sheikh Jainoo Bawaodeen, 2/Syrang	QSA (1) Nat
Siqueira, 3/Clerk A J	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Stocken, Lt E	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Tajoodeen Dhurmoodeen, 1/Sto	QSA (1) Nat
Thyne, Lt W K	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Vibart, Sub Lt J F	QSA (0). RIMS Clive
Wakefield, Eng T R	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Walker, Ch Eng R	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Walker, Lt Thomas J	QSA (0). RIMS Clive. Thomas Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 19 April 1863. He was educated at King's School, Peterborough, and trained aboard the ‘Worcester’ Nautical College. He was Apprenticed in the New Zealand Shipping Company for four years and served for one year in the Company's ships with a 2nd Mates Certificate. He joined the Indian Marine as a 3rd Grade Officer aboard Tenasserim on 30 March 1884, transferred to Canning on 1 August 1884 and was promoted to 2nd Grade Officer on 1 April 1886. He served in this rank aboard Sir William Peel (April 1886), Clive (April 1887), Sir William Peel (August 1887), and Jaboona (May 1888). Service in these vessels in connection with the military operations in Burma 1885-89 resulted in the award of the India General Service Medal with clasps ‘Burma 1885-87’ and ‘Burma 1887-89’. He served next aboard Enterprize (July 1888) and Clive (August 1888). He was promoted to 1st Grade Officer on 1 October 1888, and then served aboard the following ships: Clive (October 1888), Canning (July 1890), Clive (September 1890), and Lawrence (April 1891). Promoted to the recently introduced rank of Lieutenant on 26 November 1892, he elected to transfer to the newly created Defence Squadron. He subsequently served in the rank of Lieutenant aboard CLIVE (January 1894), Warren Hastings (May 1895), Dalhousie (October 1895), and was again aboard the troopship Warren Hastings when she was wrecked off St Phillipe on 14 January 1897. One would hardly look to the unpopular business of peacetime trooping for tales of bravery, but the loss of the Indian Transport, Warren Hastings, in 1897 occasioned a ‘shining example of that combination of discipline and courage in the face of death that we call heroism’. The Warren Hastings went ashore in a gale off Reunion Island in the dark hours of 14 January 1897, an eruption of the volcano of Fournaise having so deflected her compasses as to put her eight miles off her course. She had a ship's company of 240 and carried over 1,000 troops with their wives and families. Although the ship was lying over at an angle of 45 degrees and was being battered by a heavy surf, the ship's company went to their stations and the troops fell in as if on parade; the engine room staff stayed below, opening all the escape vales and even, for a time, restoring the electric light which had been extinguished as the ship struck. Much credit was given to the Engineroom Officers and Ratings for remaining at their posts until finally driven out by the inrush of water, which washed out their fires and drove them on deck. Two of the ship's Officers went over the side into the surf and gained the rocks, where they rigged ropes and a canvas chute. The ship's company and troops, most of them standing up to their waists in water then got the women and children ashore. Although only a few yards separated the ship from the shore, the surf and a powerful undertow made those few yards perilous in the extreme. Officers and Men who had themselves reached the safety of the rocks repeatedly waded back into the surf, carrying lines to those who could not swim and, by daylight, all but two of the total complement of 1246 had been got ashore; the two who were lost being seamen who were caught in the surf and pulled under before they could be reached. He served next as Supernumerary aboard Canning (February 1897), Mayo (March 1897), and Clive (April 1897) and again appointed to Canning in April 1897, having Temporary Command on two separate occasions. He was appointed to Clive in September 1899 and whilst in this ship saw service in both the Boer and China Wars, and was awarded the Queen's South Africa and 3rd China War medals. He next joined Canning (April 1901), Comet (January 1903) and Dalhousie (July 1903), and retired on 1 May 1904 after 20 years service. ISG (2) Burma 1885-7 Burma 1887-89 (2d GDE OFFICER, HMIMS SIR W.PEEL), QSA (0) (LIEUT, RIMS CLIVE), China (0) (LIEUT, RIMS CLIVE). DNW Feb 97 £780. Neate Militaria May 07 £1,695.
Wheatley, Asst Eng W	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Wilson, Ass Eng C B	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Wood, Eng G E	QSA (0). RIMS Canning
Yates, Eng J G	QSA (0). RIMS Canning. QSA (0), China (0). Liverpool Medals. May 07 £1,100.

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