Memorial
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Location of Memorial: Rear Admiral
Charles Davis Lucas VC Born - Drumargole, Armagh, Ireland, 19 February 1834 Died - Great Culverden, Kent, 7 August 1914 Place and date of VC HMS Hecla, The Baltic Sea, 21 June 1854 Rank - Mate, Royal Navy Aged 20 years The first deed of valour to be awarded with the Victoria Cross Commanded the Ballachulish Corps in Scotland 1873/83 with the rank of Brigadier General Club Member 1868 See the Ulster History page on Rear Admiral Lucas VC Vice Admiral
Sir William Nathan Wright Hewett VC KCB Born - Brighton, Sussex, 2 August 1834 Died - Portsmouth, Hampshire, 13 May 1888 Place and date of VC Crimea - 26 October and 5 November 1854 Rank - Lieutenant, Royal Navy (Naval Brigade) Aged 20 years Other Decorations Legion d'Honneur (France) Commander-in-Chief East Indies 1882. Head of Naval Forces in the Egyptian War 1884 Commander-in-Chief Channel Squadron 1886/88 Buried in Highland Road Cemetery, Southsea Club Member 1885 See separate page for Vice Admiral Hewett VC Vice Admiral
Henry James Raby VC CB Born - Boulogne, France, 26 September 1827 Died - Southsea, Hampshire, 13 February 1907 Place and date of VC Crimea - 18 June 1855 Rank - Commander, Royal Navy (Naval Brigade) Aged 28 years Other Decorations Legion d'Honneur (France) First man to receive the Victoria Cross from Queen Victoria at the first investiture held in Hyde Park, London - 26 June 1857 Club Member 1871 See separate page for Vice Admiral Raby VC Admiral of the Fleet
Sir John Edmund Commerell VC GCB Born - London, 13 January 1829 Died - London, 21 May 1901 Place and date of VC HMS Weser, Crimea - 11 October 1855 Rank - Commander, Royal Navy Aged 26 years Other Decorations Legion d'Honneur (France) C-in-C North American and West Indies Station - 1881 C-in-C Portsmouth - 1888. Groom-in-Waiting to the Queen - 1891 Admiral of the Fleet - 1892 Club Member 1869 See separate page for Admiral Commerell VC Admiral of the Fleet
Sir Nowell Salmon VC GCB Born - Swarraton, Hampshire, 20 February 1835 Died - Southsea, Hampshire, 14 February 1912 Place and date of VC Indian Mutiny - 16 November 1857 Rank - Lieutenant, Royal Navy (Naval Brigade) Aged 20 years Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth - 1894/6 Commanded the Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review Admiral of the Fleet - 1899 Club Member 1879 See separate page for Admiral Salmon VC Field Marshal
Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC GCB GCMG Born - Cressing, Essex, 9 February 1838 Died - Harlow, Essex, 2 December 1920 Place and date of VC Indian Mutiny - 19 October 1858 Rank - Lieutenant 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Aged 20 years Other Decorations Legion d'Honneur (France) Served in the Crimea with the Naval Brigade Quartermaster to the Forces 1893/97 Adjutant General to the Forces 1897/1901 Commanded 2 Army Corps 1901/4 - Promoted Field Marshal 1903 Constable of the Tower of London 1911/19 Club Member Royal Albert Yacht Club 1901 See the Wikipedia entry for Field Marshal Wood VC Admiral of the Fleet
Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson VC GCB OM GCVO Born - Swaffham, Norfolk, 4 March 1842 Died - Swaffham, Norfolk, 25 May 1921 Place and date of VC El Teb - 29 February 1884 Rank - Captain Royal Navy (Naval Brigade) Aged 42 years Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Comptroller of the Navy 1897 Commander Channel Squadron 1901 Commande4r-in-Chief Home and Channel Fleets 1903-07 Admiral of the Fleet 1907 - First Sea Lord 1909-12 Club Member 1870 - Chairman 1890-94 See the Royal Naval Museum entry for Admiral Wilson VC General
Sir Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday V.C. K.C.B. Born - Meadstead, Hampshire, 14 May 1870 Died - Dorking, Surrey, 9 March 1966 Place and date of VC Peking, China - 24 June 1900 Rank - Captain Royal Marine Light Infantry Aged 30 years Served in the First World War Member of the British Delegation to the Peace Conference Adjutant General Royal Marines 1927/30 Honorary Colonel Commandant Royal Marines 1930/40 Club Member 1895 See the Wikipedia entry for General Halliday VC Lieutenant Colonel
Brian Turner 'Tom' Lawrence VC, GCB, GCMG Born - Bewdley, Worcestershire, 9 November 1873 Died - Nakura, Kenya, 7 June 1949 Place and date of VC South Africa - 7 August 1900 Rank - Sergeant, 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers Aged 27 years Other Decorations Legion d'Honneur (France) Served in the First World War 1914/18 Served in the Second World War 1939/42 Military Knight of Windsor 1934/38 Member of the English Riding Team, Olympics Games, Stockholm, Sweden Club Member Royal Albert Yacht Club 1926 See the Wikipedia entry for Colonel Lawrence VC Captain
Norman Douglas Holbrook VC Born - Southsea, Hampshire, 9 July 1888 Died - Midhurst, Surrey - 3 July 1976 Place and date of VC HM Submarine B11, Dardenelles - 13 December 1914 Rank - Lieutenant, Royal Navy Aged 26 years Other Decorations Legion d'Honneur (France) First Naval VC to be gazetted in the First World War First Submariner to be awarded the VC Served in the Second World War at the Admiralty Club Member Royal Albert Yacht Club 1951 See separate page for Captain Holbrook VC Vice Admiral
Eric Gascoigne Robinson VC OBE Born - Greenwich, London, 16 May 1882 Died - Haslar, Hampshire - 20 August 1965 Place and date of VC HMS Vengeance, Dardenelles - 26 February 1915 Rank - Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy Aged 32 years Other Decorations Order of the Nile, Egypt, Order of St Anne (Russia) Recalled to the Royal Navy in the Second World War as Commodore of Convoy 1940/42 Club Member 1917 See the Wikipedia entry for Admiral Robinson VC Captain
Edward Unwin VC, CB, CMG Born - Fawley, Hampshire, 17 March 1864 Died - Hindhead, Surrey - 19 April 1950 Place and date of VC HMS River Clyde, V Beach, Gallipoli - 23 April 1915 Rank - Commander, Royal Navy Aged 51 years Other Decorations Order of the Nile, Egypt Club Member 1930 See separate page for Captain Unwin VC Rear Admiral
Edward Courtney Boyle VC Born - Carlisle, Cumberland, 23 March 1883 Died - Ascot, Berks - 16 December 1967 Place and date of VC HM Submarine E14, Dardenelles - 27 April 1915 Rank - Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy Aged 32 years Other Decorations Legion d'Honneur (France) Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus (Italy) King's Harbour Master, Devonport 1926/28 Flag Officer in Charge, London, 1939/42 Club Member 1922 See the Wikipedia entry for Admiral Boyle VC Admiral
Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith VC KCB KCMG Born - East Barnes, London, 1 April 1883 Died - Elgin, Morayshire - 29 June 1965 Place and date of VC HM Submarine E11, Dardenelles - 20 May - 8 June 1915 Rank - Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy Aged 32 years Other Decorations Legion d'Honneur (France) Club Member 1906 - Trustee 1939 See the Wikipedia entry for Admiral Dunbar-Nasmith VC Vice Admiral
Richard Bell-Davies VC CB DSO AFC Born - Kensington, London, 19 May 1886 Died - Haslar, Hampshire - 26 February 1966 Place and date of VC Ferrijik Junction, Bulgaria - 19 November 1915 Rank - Squadron Commander, Royal Navy Aged 29 years Other Decorations Croix de Guerre avec Palme and Legion d'Honneur (France) Rear Admiral Naval Air Station Author of - Sailor in the Air Club Member 1906 - Trustee 1938 See the Wikipedia entry for Admiral Bell-Davies VC Vice Admiral
Sir Victor Charles Crutchley VC, KCB, DSC Born - London, 2 November 1893 Died - Dorset - 24 January 1986 Place and date of VC HMS Vindictive, Ostend, Belgium - 9-10 May 1918 Rank - Lieutenant, Royal Navy (Naval Brigade) Aged 25 years Other Decorations Croix de Guerre (France) Polonia Restituta (Poland) - Chief Commander of The Legion of Merit (USA) Commanded Australian Naval Squadron Flag Officer, Gibraltar High Sheriff of Dorset 1955 Club Member 1921 See the Wikipedia entry for Admiral Crutchley VC Lieutenant Commander
Gerard Broadmead Roope VC Born - Taunton, Somerset, 13 March 1905 Died - West Fjord, Norway - 8 April 1940 Place and date of VC West Fjord, Norway - 8 April 1940 Rank - Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy Aged 35 years Club Member See the Wikipedia entry for Commander Roope VC Captain
Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen VC Born - Southsea, Hampshire, 8 October 1891 Died - North Atlantic - 5 November 1940 Place and date of VC HMS Jervis Bay, North Atlantic - 5 November 1940 Rank - Captain, Royal Navy Aged 49 years Club Member See separate page for Captain Fegen VC Rear Admiral
Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke VC, GCB, DSO, GCVO Born - Newark, Nottinghamshire, 8 January 1901 Died - Newark, Nottinghamshire - 13 June 1972 Place and date of VC HMS Onslow, North Cape, Norway - 31 December 1942 Rank - Captain, Royal Navy Aged 71 years Club Member See the reference to Admiral Sherbrooke at Find a Grave |
