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A recent acquisition - the medals to Willam Henry Notton, A.B. HMS Powerful, along with his WWI pair to the Royal Warwickshire's (France and Italy) and his ISM - gazetted on his retirement in 1938. He had left the Senior Service in 1906 and become a Postman.

Excellent pictures, Rory, thank you.

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QSA (1) Defence of Ladysmith (R. R. Hogg, Car: Cr: H.M.S. Powerful) impressed naming;
British War and Victory Medals (340625 R. R. Hogg. Cpr. 1. R.N.);
Royal Navy LS&GC EdVII (340625 R. R. Hogg, Cooper, H.M.S. Latona.)

Robert Rutherford Hogg was born at Melrose, Scotland, on 20 February 1876; a carpenter by trade prior to joining the Royal Navy, he naturally enlisted as Carpenter’s Crew on 23 April 1895, and served in HMS Powerful from 8 June 1897 to 8 June 1900 (published transcription of medal roll gives entitlement to a no clasp Queen’s South Africa Medal).

Promoted Cooper on 16 February 1905, he served in HMS Latona from 16 September 1909 to 8 April 1911, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 10 December 1910.

He saw further service during the Great War in the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth from 8 March 1916 to 15 April 1919, and was shore demobilised on 16 December 1919.

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E&W Africa 1887 (1) 1891-2 (R. Wynn, Ord. HMS Widgeon);
QSA (1) Defence of Ladysmith (145837, A.B, R. Wynn. HMS Powerful.) engraved naming;
1914-15 Star (145837 R. Wynn, L.S., R.N.);
BWM 1914-20, naming erased;
Victory Medal 1914-19 (145837 R. Wynn. L.S. R.N.)

Richard Wynn was born at Donabate, Dublin, on 4 March 1873 and joined the Royal Navy as a boy second class on 8 June 1888. He was posted to HMS Widgeon on 13 May 1890, and served during the operations on and off the coast of Gambia, December 1891 to February 1892. Promoted able seaman on 1 May 1893, he served in a variety of ships and shore based establishments over the next seven years before joining HMS Powerful on 2 June 1899, and and served during the Boer War ashore with Powerful’s Naval Brigade during the Defence of Ladysmith.

Promoted leading seaman on 28 September 1903, and petty officer first class on 19 February 1904, Wynn reverted to the rate of leading seaman on 14 June 1907 (his character that year being merely ‘Good’) and was shore pensioned on 5 March 1913, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve at Devonport four days later. Recalled for service during the Great War, he served in a variety of ships and shore based establishments, notably HMS Malaya from 28 January 1916 to 1 May 1917, was present in her at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, where Malaya was hit eight times and suffered heavy casualties.

He was shore demobilised on 4 February 1919.

A new addition to my Defence of Ladysmith collection arrived this morning. 187117 AB William Bishop was part of the Ladysmith contingent during the siege. He went on to serve in WWI with the same number.

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QSA (2) Belmont, Modder River (281134 Sto. W. H. Davis. H.M.S. Powerful) officially engraved naming;
1914-15 Star (281134. W. H. Davis. Ch. Sto, R.N.);
British War and Victory Medals (281134. W. H. Davis. Ch. Sto, R.N.);
RN LS&GC Ed VII (281134 W. H. Davis Sto P.O. H.M.S. Sealark)

Walter Henry Davis was born in November 1875 in Burton Bradstock, Devon. He enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Stoker and first served with HMS Victory. In June 1897 he was posted to HMS Powerful and served ashore with the Royal Naval Brigade during the Anglo-Boer War, being involved in two of the earliest battles of the campaign, both of them in the last ten days of November 1899.

Davis was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in January 1911 whilst serving in HMS Sealark, an auxiliary steam yacht which at the time was involved in hydrographic survey work around Australia and the South Pacific. On the outbreak of the Great War, he was serving aboard the cruiser HMS Fearless as a Chief Stoker. He was wounded in action on 28 August 1914 during the Battle of Heligoland Bight and was also in the ship’s crew during the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. From December 1916 until January 1920 he served aboard the destroyer, HMS Orcadia, having transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve in December 1917. He was discharged in March 1920.