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Medals to HMS Niobe 2 years 2 months ago #80606

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QSA (0) (W. J. Chard. Lg. Sto. HMS Niobe.);
1914-15 Star (174393. W. H. Chard. Ch. Sto., R.N.);
BWM and VM (174393 W. J. Chard. Ch. Sto. R.N.);
Royal Navy LS&GC EdVII. (174393 W. H. Chard, Sto. P.O. HMS Leander.)

William Henry Chard was born on 14 April 1873, at Shepton Mallet, Somerset. He commenced naval service as a Stoker Second Class in HMS Vivid II, on 28 July 1893. He was appointed to HMS Cambridge and was advanced to Stoker, on 1 July 1894, and to Leading Stoker Second Class, HMS Trafalgar, on 5 February 1897. He was appointed to HMS Niobe, on 28 January 1899, and advanced to Leading Stoker First Class on 13 March 1900.

He was advanced Chief Stoker Third Class, HMS Gloucester, on 1 February 1913, and Chief Stoker First Class on 15 March 1916.

During the Great War he served in HMS Gloucester, and was involved in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau, in 1914, and later played a role in the Battle of Jutland.

He was shore pensioned from HMS Vivid II in May 1919.
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Medals to HMS Niobe 1 year 11 months ago #82597

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QSA (0) (C. Tolcher. Boy. 1st Cl. HMS Niobe);
1914-15 Star (197372, C. H. Tolcher, P.O., R.N.);
BWM and VM (197372. C. H. Tolcher. P.O. R.N.);
Royal Navy LS&GC GV, 1st issue (197372. C. H. Tolcher. P.O. HMS Colllingwood.)

Charles Henry Tolcher was born in Portlemouth, Devon on 25 October 1882. He enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in January 1898, was posted aboard HMS Indefatigable and promoted to Boy First Class the following October. He joined HMS Niobe in June 1899 and served aboard her until October 1900. During this period Niobe was involved in the Second Boer War, escorting troop ships to the Cape. On the outbreak of the Great War, he was serving in the dreadnought battleship, HMS Collingwood, which he had joined in March 1912 with the rate of Petty Officer. He remained with this ship for the first two years of the war and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in November 1915.

In June 1917, Tolcher was posted to the light cruiser HMS Cassandra and was part of the ship’s company when she ran aground on Fair Isle on 15 August 1917. She was salvaged and following the end of the war, as part of the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron, Cassandra was sent to the Baltic to support the independence of the newly founded Baltic States against the Bolsheviks. On 5 December 1918, Cassandra struck a mine near Saaremaa in the Gulf of Finland and quickly sank. Tolcher, along with most of her crew were rescued by the destroyers HMS Westminster and Vendetta. He was discharged to pension in October 1922, having reached the rate of Chief Petty Officer.

The dreadnought battleship HMS Collingwood was launched on 7 November 1908 and served as part of the 1st Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland, where she fired a total of 84 twelve-inch shells and 35 four-inch shells during the battle. Sub-Lieutenant H.R.H. The Prince Albert (later H.M. King George VI) commanded her forward turret during the Battle.
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Medals to HMS Niobe 1 year 8 months ago #84685

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East & West Africa (1) Gambia 1894 (J. Evans Ord H.M.S. Satellite);
QSA (5) Tugela Heights, OFS, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (HMS Forte - details not catalogued);
BWM (167339 J. Evans A.B. R.N.).

Several unofficial rivets on QSA clasps.

James Evans was killed in action on 22 September 1914 when the cruiser HMS Cressy was sunk by U-9 off the Hook of Holland along with Aboukir and Hogue and with no known grave is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

If this is Able Seamen J E Evans onboard HMS Niobe, he is entitled to QSA (0). Noted on the roll as medal returned. It would be good to see a picture of the naming.
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QSA (0) (Ast. Engr. W. H. Rosevere. R.N., HMS Niobe);
1914-15 Star (Eng. Lt. Cr. W. H. Rosevere. R.N.);
BWM and VM (Eng. Cmmr. W. H. Rosevere. R.N.)

William Henry Rosevere was born at Devonport on 17 May 1877. He joined the Royal Navy in May 1897 and earned his QSA as Assistant Engineer aboard HMS Niobe. He resigned his commission on 7 March 1903, but this was restored on 11 August 1914, when he was placed on the Emergency List. He served in HMS Galatea 1914-15, and Egmont for Malta Dockyard 1916-19. Promoted to Engineer Commander in 1918, he reverted to the Emergency List on 18 October 1919. He served during the Second War in Hannibal and President additional for service inside the Admiralty.

He was killed in a road accident on 23 March 1945.
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QSA (0) (R. E. Bell, Blk. Mte. HMS Niobe.)

Richard Ernest Bell was born on 1 November 1872, at Dartmouth, Devon, and joined the Royal Navy as a blacksmith’s mate on 30 April 1894. He joined HMS Niobe on 6 December 1898 and served in her until 8 February 1901, earning the Queen's South Africa medal without clasp. After subsequent service in Vivid II, Pearl, Simoom, Vivid II again, and then in Indus, Bell joined HMS Cambridge on 16 April 1905. He tragically met his death on 26 August 1905, in circumstances reported thus in a local newspaper:

‘The Warship Tragedy. - At Devonport on Monday an inquest was held touching the death of Richard Ernest Bell, blacksmith, of HMS Cambridge, gunnery ship, who was killed on the 26th inst. during an affray with a carpenter named Thomas Collins. The medical evidence showed that death was the result of a blow behind the ear, and a verdict of manslaughter against Collins was accordingly returned, he being committed for trial.’

At the subsequent trial for manslaughter, Collins was found to be not guilty by the jury at assizes. However, the judge in summing up stated that he considered Collins was technically guilty of manslaughter. Collins subsequently drowned as a result of the sinking of a ship’s cutter in a blizzard on 28 March 1916.
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Medals to HMS Niobe 7 months 4 weeks ago #91234

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Described as: 'A Boer War and WWI group of four to '3404422 George Flinn. Cooper HMS Flora', Queens South Africa Medal , no clasp (HMS Niobe) war Medal, Victory Medal and Royal Naval LSGC Medal (HMS Flora)'

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