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Operated by C.I.Lines backs away from the New North Quay in St Helier, bound for Guernsey and Southampton. 04/11/15
Of all the times I've tried to capture the beauty of this sign and its building, this is the best. Which is a little frustrating, because I took this while driving by it, and I only really had time to glance at the screen.
Looking west from the intersection with Osborn Boulevard.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˌsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is the only city in, and county seat of, Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. With a population of 14,144 at the 2010 census, it is the second-most populated city in the Upper Peninsula after Marquette. It is the central city of the Sault Ste. Marie, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Chippewa County and had a population of 38,520 at the 2010 census.
Sault Ste. Marie was settled as early as 1668, which makes it Michigan's oldest city and among the oldest cities in the United States. Located at the northeastern edge of the Upper Peninsula, it is separated by the St. Marys River from the much-larger city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The two are connected by the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, which represents the northern terminus of Interstate 75. This portion of the river also contains the Soo Locks, as well as a swinging railroad bridge. The city is also home to Lake Superior State University.
For centuries Ojibwe (Chippewa) Native Americans had lived in the area, which they referred to as Baawitigong ("at the cascading rapids"), after the rapids of St. Marys River. French colonists renamed the region Saulteaux ("rapids" in French).
In 1668, French missionaries Claude Dablon and Jacques Marquette founded a Jesuit mission at this site. Sault Ste. Marie developed as the fourth-oldest European city in the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains, and the oldest permanent settlement in contemporary Michigan state. On June 4, 1671, Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson, a colonial agent, was dispatched from Quebec to the distant tribes, proposing a congress of Indian nations at the Falls of St. Mary between Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Trader Nicolas Perrot helped attract the principal chiefs, and representatives of 14 Indigenous nations were invited for the elaborate ceremony. The French officials proclaimed France's appropriation of the immense territory surrounding Lake Superior in the name of King Louis XIV.
In the 18th century, the settlement became an important center of the fur trade, when it was a post for the British-owned North West Company, based in Montreal. The fur trader John Johnston, a Scots-Irish immigrant from Belfast, was considered the first European settler in 1790. He married a high-ranking Ojibwe woman named Ozhaguscodaywayquay, the daughter of a prominent chief, Waubojeeg. She also became known as Susan Johnston. Their marriage was one of many alliances in the northern areas between high-ranking European traders and Ojibwe. The family was prominent among Native Americans, First Nations, and Europeans from both Canada and the United States. They had eight children who learned fluent Ojibwe, English and French. The Johnstons entertained a variety of trappers, explorers, traders, and government officials, especially during the years before the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States.
For more than 140 years, the settlement was a single community under French colonial, and later, British colonial rule. After the War of 1812, a US–UK Joint Boundary Commission finally fixed the border in 1817 between the Michigan Territory of the US and the British Province of Upper Canada to follow the river in this area. Whereas traders had formerly moved freely through the whole area, the United States forbade Canadian traders from operating in the United States, which reduced their trade and disrupted the area's economy. The American and Canadian communities of Sault Ste. Marie were each incorporated as independent municipalities toward the end of the 19th century.
As a result of the fur trade, the settlement attracted Ojibwe and Ottawa, Métis, and ethnic Europeans of various nationalities. It was a two-tiered society, with fur traders (who had capital) and their families and upper-class Ojibwe in the upper echelon. In the aftermath of the War of 1812, however, the community's society changed markedly.
The U.S. built Fort Brady near the settlement, introducing new troops and settlers, mostly Anglo-American. The UK and the US settled on a new northern boundary in 1817, dividing the US and Canada along St. Mary's River. The US prohibited British fur traders from operating in the United States. After completion of the Erie Canal in New York State in 1825 (expanded in 1832), the number of settlers migrating to Ohio and Michigan increased dramatically from New York and New England, bringing with them the Yankee culture of the Northern Tier. Their numbers overwhelmed the cosmopolitan culture of the earlier settlers. They practiced more discrimination against Native Americans and Métis.
The falls proved a choke point for shipping between the Great Lakes. Early ships traveling to and from Lake Superior were portaged around the rapids[8] in a lengthy process (much like moving a house) that could take weeks. Later, only the cargoes were unloaded, hauled around the rapids, and then loaded onto other ships waiting below the rapids. The first American lock, the State Lock, was built in 1855; it was instrumental in improving shipping. The lock has been expanded and improved over the years.
In 1900, Northwestern Leather Company opened a tannery in Sault Ste. Marie. The tannery was founded to process leather for the upper parts of shoes, which was finer than that for soles. After the factory closed in 1958, the property was sold to Filborn Limestone, a subsidiary of Algoma Steel Corporation.
In March 1938 during the Great Depression, Sophia Nolte Pullar bequeathed $70,000 for construction of the Pullar Community Building, which opened in 1939. This building held an indoor ice rink composed of artificial ice, then a revolutionary concept. The ice rink is still owned by the city." - info from Wikipedia.
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Before OCD opened in 1973 there were two dispatch centers for the LAFD. Westlake, located in McArthur Park handled all of the alarm boxes and radio dispatch from the L.A. basin to the harbor.
Coldwater Dispatch was located at Fire Station 108 On Mulholland Dr. and Coldwater Canyon Dr. It dispatched companies located in the San Fernando Valley and West Los Angeles using the callsign "Coldwater"
After OCD opened, Coldwater was retained as a backup dispatch center. In Feb. 2012 Metro Fire Communications opened at the new Fire Station 4 using the callsign "Metro" or "MFC". OCD was retained as a backup and Coldwater will be permanently shut down.
This is one of several shots I took on a visit to the Baker Street Station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in September of 1981. Several dispatchers were still housed in the Conrail facility and were working various former Pennsy territories. This desk is controlling the line south out of Goshen beginning at CP Yost.
In a dispatch of 1794, Francis Light said that the Chinese constituted the most valuable and largest group acting as traders, carpenters, masons, smiths, shopkeepers and planters on the island. From an early date, the Chinese specialised in the production and trade of tin. Some emigrants from the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian involved themselves in sugar-cane and pepper cultivation, in which the native Malays had shown no interest. Others acted as middlemen merchants (functioning more or less in the nature of agency house) for foreign traders engaged in export-import activities. Their contributions lay in shipping merchandise for various foreign destinations. Still other Chinese worked in the importation of ethnic foods which they cooked and sold to other recent settlers.
On this Wednesday, June 11th, 2025, we see an Apache Community Safety (ACS ) responder assisting an individual in front of the city's main library. Apache Regional Medical Center
EMS Station 1 EMTs were also dispatched to this call.
ACS is still a pilot program for the city and has only been in service for 6 months, and it responds to behavioral health crises, homelessness, and quality-of-life concerns. So far, it has been met with mixed opinions.
Apache is the county seat of Apache County, NM, and this story is based on programs in bigger cities.
Illustration of portal of the Broadway tunnel from Illustrated description of the Broadway underground railway (1872) by New York Parcel Dispatch Company. Original from The New York Public Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
2021 BLM Fire Employee Photo Contest Winner Category: Dispatch
Photo by Marc Sanchez, BLM
A dispatcher at the Lakeview Interagency Distpatch Center in Oregon.
©AVucha 2014
On March 3rd at 6:21pm, Woodstock Fire/Rescue was dispatched for a motor vehicle accident involving a Woodstock Police Officer at Route 14 and Dean St. The officer was extracted from his squad car and was transported via OSF Life Flight to St. Anthony Medical Center in Rockford.
Woodstock, Illinois
News obtained from the Northwest Herald:
WOODSTOCK – A Woodstock police officer had to be extricated from an unmarked squad car and flown to a hospital Monday after a three-vehicle accident.
At 6:24 p.m., a 15-year-old male motorist from Woodstock, driving on a learner's permit, was waiting to turn left from westbound Route 14 onto Dean Street. When he turned left, he struck an unmarked Woodstock squad car, which was traveling eastbound on Route 14. The squad car then hit a vehicle facing north waiting on Dean Street.
Officer Eric Schmidtke was driving a Ford Interceptor and had to be extricated from the vehicle. He was transported to Woodstock Hospital, and subsequently flown to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Rockford, according to a press release from the McHenry County Sheriff's office.
He was released from the hospital late last night, according to McHenry County Sheriff's Deputy Aimee Knop.
The traffic signal for eastbound and westbound Rt. 14 was green at the time of crash, the release said.
Because of the extra equipment in the squad car, such as the computer, radio and weapons, it took longer to conduct the extrication, Ryan said.
The juvenile driver and his adult passenger were taken to Centegra Hospital – Woodstock, where they were treated and released, Knop said.
The names of the juvenile and others involved in the crash were not released.
Eastbound Route 14 was shut down for about two hours after the accident, Ryan said.
The sheriff's office is investigating the crash because a Woodstock officer was involved.
Knop said the juvenile was cited for failure to yield when turning left at an intersection. She said everyone involved was wearing a seat belt, and alcohol and drugs do not appear to be a factor.
The officer was believed to be performing normal driving, Knop said.
Odd to say that, in three years in Columbus, I'd never shot this iconic sign for the biggest newspaper in the state.
Columbus, Ohio.
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Rule One - You will receive a body. Whether you love it or hate it, it's yours for life, so accept it. What counts is what's inside.
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Rule Three - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Your development towards wisdom is a process of experimentation, trial and error, so it's inevitable things will not always go to plan or turn out how you'd want. Compassion is the remedy for harsh judgement - of ourselves and others. Forgiveness is not only divine - it's also 'the act of erasing an emotional debt'. Behaving ethically, with integrity, and with humour - especially the ability to laugh at yourself and your own mishaps - are central to the perspective that 'mistakes' are simply lessons we must learn.
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Rule Four - The lesson is repeated until learned. Lessons repeat until learned. What manifest as problems and challenges, irritations and frustrations are more lessons - they will repeat until you see them as such and learn from them. Your own awareness and your ability to change are requisites of executing this rule. Also fundamental is the acceptance that you are not a victim of fate or circumstance - 'causality' must be acknowledged; that is to say: things happen to you because of how you are and what you do. To blame anyone or anything else for your misfortunes is an escape and a denial; you yourself are responsible for you, and what happens to you. Patience is required - change doesn't happen overnight, so give change time to happen.
Rule Five - Learning does not end. While you are alive there are always lessons to be learned. Surrender to the 'rhythm of life', don't struggle against it. Commit to the process of constant learning and change - be humble enough to always acknowledge your own weaknesses, and be flexible enough to adapt from what you may be accustomed to, because rigidity will deny you the freedom of new possibilities.
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Rule Nine - Your answers lie inside of you. Trust your instincts and your innermost feelings, whether you hear them as a little voice or a flash of inspiration. Listen to feelings as well as sounds. Look, listen, and trust. Draw on your natural inspiration.
Rule Ten - You will forget all this at birth. We are all born with all of these capabilities - our early experiences lead us into a physical world, away from our spiritual selves, so that we become doubtful, cynical and lacking belief and confidence. The ten Rules are not commandments, they are universal truths that apply to us all. When you lose your way, call upon them. Have faith in the strength of your spirit. Aspire to be wise - wisdom the ultimate path of your life, and it knows no limits other than those you impose on yourself.
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Title / Titre :
German bicycle with spring tires used by a Canadian dispatch runner /
Bicyclette allemande équipée de pneus à ressorts utilisée par une estafette canadienne
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : William Rider-Rider
Date(s) : January 1919 / janvier 1919
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : MIKAN 3194352, 3624572
collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&...
collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&...
Location / Lieu : France
Credit / Mention de source :
William Rider-Rider. Canada. Department of National Defence. Library and Archives Canada, PA-004085 /
William Rider-Rider. Canada. Ministère de la défense national. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-004085
Train Management and Dispatch System/Smart Mobile Client
Bellingham and New Westminster Subdivisions on the BNSF from Everett to the Fraser River Bridge in Vancouver, BC. MP37.0-MP141.0
Red are trains. Green shows signals lined up for the trains. Yellow are signals in the process of lining up. Blue is track and time permits. (MOW or trains) Pink is track segments withing track and time being shunted by machinery or trains. Light blue/green track with squares are tags (notes) the dispatcher has for that segment of track.
The train that has the arrow on it has the details of that train.
This program allows us to get "track and time" authority by point and click.
This is one of the best tools to help us manage our time & do our job we have received. Kudos!
Herbert Laight………………….…………………........(Roll of Honour)
151 Private Laight, 1st Eastern Company Non-Combatant Corps who died on Wednesday 27th November 1918 aged 33 years. He and three other members of the large Acle family served during the war. Nothing is known of the circumstances of his death and he is buried at the Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
CWGC notes that he was the son of William and Ellen Laight, of Acle, Norfolk.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=503059
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has the 15 year old Herbert living at The Post office, The Street, Acle, the village of his birth. This is the household of his parents, William, (age 55 and a Sub-Postmaster and Shopkeeper from Lincoln), and Ellen, (aged 54, a shopkeeper and from Acle). Also with them are:
Edward……………..age 13.…………..born Acle
Ella…………………age 17.…………..born Acle……….Post Office assistant
Emma………………age 20.………….born Acle……….Post Office assistant
Ethel………………..age 21.………….born Acle……….Post Office clerk
Florence……………age 27.………….born Acle……….Shop assistant
Ralph………………age 9.……………born Acle
Ruth……………….age 24.…………..born Acle……….Post office Clerk
Unwilling soldiers
3,400 Cos (Consciencious Objectors) accepted call-up into the Non-Combatant Corps (NCC) or the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) as non-combatants. The NCC (the 'No-Courage Corps' as the press rudely called it) was set up in March 1916, part of the army and run by its regular officers. The COs assigned to it were army privates, wore army uniforms and were subject to army discipline, but didn't carry weapons or take part in battle. Their duties were mainly to provide physical labour (building, cleaning, loading and unloading anything except munitions) in support of the military.
The NCC may have been a shock to the COs who agreed to join it. But for the absolutists and alternativists who were forcibly enlisted into the NCC it was much worse. They immediately faced the question of whether to agree to wearing uniform. The men who decided to refuse were formally charged and court-martialled. Often they were treated harshly, bullied, deprived of basic needs and rights, and imprisoned in inhumane conditions. So were the men who refused to perform duties like handling munitions or building rifle ranges. Some broke down, physically or mentally, as a result of their ill-treatment.
www.ppu.org.uk/learn/infodocs/cos/st_co_wwone1.html
This report in the Hansard shows some of the dilemmas faced by individual conscientious objectors serving in the Corps.
hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1918/mar/06/non-comba...
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William Leeder Laight………………….…………………........(Roll of Honour)
152439 Petty Officer Stoker Laight, H.M.S. Spey who died on Wednesday 7th March 1917 aged 47 years. Having served as a regular sailor he was recalled for war service at the age of 45 years. H.M.S. Spey formed part of the Home Defence and operated in the Thames Estuary. In high winds the Spey lost an anchor and was involved in a collision with SS Belvedere – a mud-hopper carrying sludge from London. As a result of the accident nineteen of the crew of thirty-seven from H.M.S. Spey were lost. He is buried in the churchyard of St Peter’s church at Boughton Monchelsea, Kent.
I assume this has been confimed, as there are no additional details on the CWGC entry for this individual.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=369523
This William is commemorated in the Churchyard of St Peter, Broughton Monchelsea
www.stpeters-church.org.uk/church.html
However, there is also this individual:-
Name: LAIGHT, WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service: Royal Army Medical Corps Unit Text: 2nd/1st (Home Counties) Field Amb Age: 19 Date of Death: 12/09/1917 Service No: 493352
Additional information: Son of William Leader Laight and Mary Jane Laight.
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. D. 20. Cemetery: MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=437980
(Of course Leeder\Leader may be a family name, and so the two individuals may be related or even father and son)
The younger William Laight was born at Broughton Monchelsea, Kent, and at the time of the 1901 Census, aged 3, he was living at Church Road, Broughton Monchelsea. His mother Jane, although married, is given as the head of the household. Reading the details of William Leeder Laight, I would hazard a guess that he was in the Royal Navy at the time and away on service and so does not appear on the Census.,
You have to go back to the 1871 Census to find a William Laight of the right age living in Acle, although the actual address isn’t shown on the scanned sheet available on the Genes Re-united site. However his 25 year old father is another William, and is a Coachman from Lincoln, so likely to be related to the Postmasters family listed for Herbert Laight.
The situation is made clear here
www.warcemetery.nl/kentfallen doc.pdf
The old William was the father, the younger William the son. Father William was born 21st October 1869
at Acle, and was the son of William and Ellen Laight, (nee Leeder).
No match on Norlink
Spey, collision
BOORMAN, Albert E, Chief Petty Officer (RFR A 2025), 147658 (Ch)
BULL, Joseph A, Able Seaman (RFR B 4816), 179032 (Ch)
HANCOX, George W, Able Seaman (RFR B 6033), 183687 (Ch)
HARRIS, Alfred, Armourer's Crew, 206312 (Ch)
HODDER, John F, Stoker 1c (RFR B 5867), SS 100896 (Ch)
HUMPHREY, Ernest F, Act/Lieutenant, RNR
ILSTON, John, Petty Officer, 147886 (Ch)
KEATLEY, John, Stoker 1c (RFR B 7525), 291835 (Ch)
LAIGHT, William L, Stoker Petty Officer (Pens), 152439 (Ch)
MERRITT, John, Private, RMLI (RFR B 1659), 10581 (Ch)
MORGAN, Charles C, Corporal, RMLI (RFR B 362), 5097 (Ch)
REED, Alfred J, Private, RMLI (Pens), 2222 (Ch)
REYNOLDS, William, Act/Warrant Officer
RUNACLES, Arthur W, Ordinary Seaman, J 28414 (Ch)
SEARLE, Frederick, Stoker 1c (RFR B 7769), SS 103252 (Ch)
SHIPLEE, Frederick J, Officer's Steward 2c, L 4954 (Ch)
SMITH, Arthur J, Chief Stoker, 154073 (Ch)
SOULSBY, George, Engine Room Artificer 1c, RNR, EB 426
WOODWARD, William T, Leading Stoker (RFR B 8722), 289658 (Ch)
WORNAST, Charles J, Able Seaman (RFR B 4784), 184111 (Ch)
www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1917-03Mar.htm
There’s a picture here of the Spey and confirmation that she was sold off until 1923, so she wasn’t scrapped straight away
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/r_n_gunboats.htm
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George Alfred Lake……………………………….................................................(RoH)
6561DA Deckhand Lake, H.M. Trawler ‘New Comet’, Royal Navy Reserve who died on Saturday 20th January 1917 aged 33 years. The trawler was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1915 but it is not known if he was already a member of its crew. Records show that it was sunk by a mine off Orford Ness. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent.
CWGC notes that he was the son of George Lake, of The Hill, Acle, Norfolk, and the late Elizabeth Lake.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3053053
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has a 17 year old George A Lake living at Rotten Marsh Road, Acle, born Halvergate and employed as a General Carter and Petroleum Hawker. This was the household of his parents George, (aged 53 and a Railway Platelayer from Freethorpe), and Elizabeth, (aged 56 and from Mautby).
New Comet, ship lost
BLYTH, Clifford, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 6847
BURCH, Robert N, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 11528
CLARKE, Arthur F, 2nd Hand, RNR, SA 215
CROSBY, James, Engineman, RNR, ES 4528
CUMBERLAND, Henry, Trimmer, RNR, TS 2176
GIBBONS, Martin, Trimmer, RNR, TS 2519
LAKE, George A, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 6561
MANZIE, Thomas, Engineman, RNR, ES 2919
MARTIN, Joseph H, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7534, DOW
www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1917-01Jan.htm
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George Hungerford Morgan………………………………...........(RoH)
430346 Lance Corporal Morgan, 7th Battalion Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment) who died on Tuesday 15th August 1917 aged 37 years. As a 35 year old farming in Canada he enlisted in the Canadian Army served with the C.E.F. in Europe in March 1916. He recovered and died in the famous attack on Hill 70. Although not a native of Acle he is commemorated on a prayer desk in the parish church with his cousin – Lt E.Coleman. He is also commemorated on the Vymy Memorial.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1572088
No match on Norlink
George was born on the 8/12/1890 in Madras, India. On his enlistment papers he gives his next of kin as a H R Morgan, living at what looks like Mangalore, Madras coast, India.
Although he gives his profession as farmer, he also states he did three years service in the Mysore Rifles. George Attested on the 4th March 1915.
His attestation papers can be seen here
collectionscanada.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.02-e.php?im...
collectionscanada.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.02-e.php?im...
The 7th Battalion were in the second wave of the attack on Hill 70. By about 7.00 am the Battalion was reduced to about 120 men and three officers, and were pinned down by heavy machine gun fire. Even so they were among the most advanced of the Canadian Battalion, and had to pull back slightly to prevent themselves from being outflanked by German Counterattacks.
The battalions War Diaries for the period can be seen here,
data4.collectionscanada.gc.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=7th+Batt...
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George Rowe………………………………...............................(RoH)
20701 Private Rowe 1st Battalion Essex Regiment who died on Friday 13th August 1915 aged 20 years. One of two sons of Thomas and Miriam Rowe of Acle who were killed in WW1. George Rowe enlisted in Norwich to the Norfolk Regiment and volunteered to reinforce the Essex Regiment. He was one of those 300, or so, reinforcements carried by the transport “Royal Edward” which was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
CWGC notes add that he was the son of Thomas William and Miriam Rowe, of 12, New Terrace, The Hill, Acle, Norwich.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=683223
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has a 6 year old George and a 4 year old William, (both born Darnall, Yorkshire), living at 55 Catcliffe Road, Attercliffe cum Darnall, Sheffield. This was the household of his parents, Thomas W, (a 37 year old Bricklayer from Tickhill, Yorkshire), and Miriam, (aged 33 and from “Norfolk Narbro” - presumably Narborough). Their other children are Lucy M, (aged 8), and Robert, (aged 2). By the 1911 census, the 43 year Miriam is recorded in the District of Blofield, Norfolk.
HMT Royal Edward, 11,117 grt, sunk 13th August 1915 by German submarine SMU UB14, 6 miles W from Kandeliusa, Aegean Sea, carrying goverment stores from Avonmouth & Alexandria to Mudros. Owned by Canadian Northern Steamships Ltd-Toronto. 132 crew died. Out of a total compliment of 1586 (crew and troops) less than 500 were saved.
1/Essex lost 174 O.R's, but 172 of them were volunteers who'd transfer from the Norfolk's (3rd Special Reserve) based at Felixstowe, 100 on 23 June and 200 on 24 July.
A passage from the History of Norfolk Regiment tells the rest of Teddie's story: Colonel Tonge refers to the loss of 300 men, the best draft that ever left Felixstowe. These men volunteered to join the Essex Regiment and appear to have constituted the drafts of June 23 and July 24 1915. They were part of the reinforcements carried by the transport "Royal Edward" which was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea on August 14th 1915. She sank two and a half minutes after the torpedo struck her.Of the 1,400 men she carried only 600 were saved,and the drowned included all but 18 of the 300 Norfolk men. The men who had had a route march just before leaving Alexandria, were waiting on deck for foot inspection at about 9.20 am. Their lifebelts were down below, and when the ship was unexpectedly struck most of them ran below to fetch the belts. Owing to the ship's sudden heeling over and sinking, these never got up again. Those who escaped were picked up by a hospital ship which responded to the s.o.s. signal. To partly replace this sad loss, another draft of 150 men to the Essex Regiment was dispatched on September 29, 1915. Addenda 1994 From: "Men of Gallipoli"(David & Charles,1988) by kind permission of the publishers. One of the features of the Cape Helles monument is the rows of names of men drowned in the torpedoing of the Royal Edward,which sank in the Eastern Mediterranean on 13th August with a loss of over 850 lives. .A.T.Fraser in the Border Regiment, was in a deckchair on the afterdeck starboard side when suddenly dozens of men ran past him from port to starboard. The explosion came before he had time to ask what was the matter.
"The ship had no escort and we had not been ordered to have our life-belts with us.
The hundreds on deck ran below to get their life-belts and hundreds below would have met them on their way up.I shared a cabin accessible from the deck I was on and I raced there to get my life-belt and ran to my life-boat station which was on the star- board side.As the men arrived they fell in two ranks. Already the ship was listing and this prevented our boats from being lowered,so we were ordered to jump for it.I saw no panic,but of course one could imagine what was happening on the inside stairs. I swam away from the ship and turned to see the funnels leaning towards me.When they reached the sea,all the soot was belched out,there was a loud whoosh and the ship sank. No explosion,no surge.So I was alone.The little waves were such that in the trough you saw nothing,on the crest you saw a few yards.The water was warm.I wondered if there were sharks". Fraser found some wood to rest on and he was joined by a seaman,an older man who had twice previously been torpedoed.This brought the young Scot confidence.An up turned Royal Edward lifeboat was to provide 17 of the survivors with a little more security though in what Fraser calls half-hourly recurring turbulence,the boat turned over,offering them conventional but completely waterlogged accommodation every alternate half hour but at least providing them with something to do.There was no singing and little conversation. The first ship that passed hailed the scattered men and promised to signal for help.It could not stop as it had high explosives for Lemnos.Some of the men became depressed and showed unwillingness to clamber back in the life boat when it overturned,but on each occasion all were persuaded.Finally the hospital ship SOUDAIN arrived to pick them up in her life-boats,and at 2 o'clock Fraser was safely aboard her after just under five hours in the sea. He remembers that"a large number of men lost their false teeth as we were constantly sick in the sea- and these men were sent back to England
www.geocities.com/heartland/acres/5564/royaledward.html
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William Rowe………………………………....................................(RoH)
15678 Private Rowe 7th (Service) Battalion Norfolk Regiment who died on Monday 26th August 1918 aged 22 years. One year younger than his brother George he arrived in France on 30th May 1915. He suffered wounds to his face and right leg and was admitted to No 2 General Hospital at Le Havre in November. Returned to duty he was again wounded in the lower back, paralysed and severely ill. He was transferred to the Fulham Military Hospital where he died. He is buried in St Edmund’s churchyard at Acle beneath a stone bearing the inscription, “Erected to the honoured memory of William Rowe by the Officers, soldiers and parishioners of Acle, who died for King and Country.”
CWGC adds that he was the son of William and Miriam Rowe, of 12, New Terrace, The Hill. Acle.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2802330
No match on Norlink
See George above for Census details
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Harry William Self………………………………..........................(RoH)
20943 Private Self, 9th Battalion Essex Regiment, who died on Monday 3rd July 1916. He died on the third day of the Battle of the Somme when his battalion was in action in the area of Ovillers la Boiselle. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=811978
No match on Norlink
There is no obvious match for Harry on the 1901 Cenus. There’s a Harry J, aged 6 at Felmingham, a Harry aged 9 at Garboldisham, and a Harry aged 20 who was born at Feltwell but was by now living near Peterborough as the most likely individuals with a Norfolk connection.
The following account is adapted from part 14 of The Hospital Way:
The 9th Essex formed part of the 35th Brigade, 12th Division, its objective the capture of Ovillers. The Division would attack on a two brigade front with the 35th Brigade on the right and the 37th on the left. The 9th Essex would be in support of the attacking battalions of the 5th Royal Berkshire and 7th Suffolk Regiments and all men would take up positions by the 2nd July in readiness for an attack the following day.
At around 3:00 am on Monday July 3rd, the attacking troops of the 12th Division left their trenches and moved under cover of artillery fire to assembly trenches dug in no man’s land. Fifteen minutes later, the barrage ceased and the men rushed the German trenches under cover of a smoke screen to their left. At first, all went well. The 5th Royal Berkshires suffered few casualties whilst crossing and used the cover of a sunken road to lead them straight into Ovillers. The German wire had been virtually obliterated by artillery fire and the men passed with relative ease through the first and second lines until they reached the ruins of houses on the Western edge of Ovillers. Here though, they were engaged in heavy bombing attacks and due to a lack of further supplies of bombs, the leading companies suffered heavy casualties. The 7th Suffolk Regiment’s advance followed a similar pattern. They too passed through the German first line, encountered strong opposition in the second line but pushed forward to the third. This position was strongly held and made even more uncomfortable for the attacking troops by German fire coming in from the left flank.
Fred and Victor Denton and their comrades in the 9th Essex fared even worse. “The march of the Battalion,” wrote one of its soldiers later, “… will forever be remembered by those engaged. Innumerable gun flashes lit the darkness of the night; they seemed endless and as one approached the line, the noise was deafening. After what appeared to be endless marching we reached the trenches in front of Ovillers. They were of hard chalk and with the bad weather not at all easy to negotiate without trench boards. In moving to positions for attack the congestion in the trenches was awful and mortally wounded men could not be moved.” To make matters worse, the German defenders, by now fully awake and repelling the attacking battalions in front of them, were sweeping no man’s land with machine gun fire. Here, states the Divisional History, “considerable casualties were sustained, and the waves of the attack becoming a series of small parties not strong enough to give any material assistance to the forward formations, the 35th Brigade attack broke down and the remnants of the battalions were driven out of the German lines.” C Company, supported by a platoon from B Company managed to reach La Boiselle and capture 200 Germans but it was an isolated success on a morning of strong initial advances, punished by vigorous counter attacks and German machine guns brought up from deep dug-outs which had been unaffected by the intense one hour bombardment which preceded the assault.
By nine o’clock, the Division was reporting that the attack had failed. A combination of flanking machine gun fire, lack of cohesion by troops advancing in the dark and the pock-marked terrain, made impassable in places due to the recent heavy rains, had put paid to the Division’s efforts.
The 6th Royal West Kent Regiment, lost 19 officers and 375 other ranks out of an attacking force of 617. Other battalions suffered similarly. The casualties for the 12th Division’s two attacking brigades amounted to 97 officers and 2277 other ranks. At around 4am, the 9th Essex attack had come to a standstill and the survivors withdrew to the front line to be relieved by the 7th Norfolks. In little under one hour the battalion had suffered 12 officer and 386 other rank casualties.
www.chailey1914-1918.net/frederick_denton.html
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Owen Rohan Waters………………………………....................(RoH)
43048 Private Waters, 7th (Service) Battalion Norfolk Regiment, who died on Monday 25th December 1916, aged 25 years. One of four members of the Waters family who saw service during the First World War. He enlisted in Norwich in October 1915 where he had worked as a Postal Clerk. During December 1916 the battalion was at Gouy-en-Ternois where they came under trench mortar fire. One man was killed and four wounded, one of whom was Owen Waters. He was taken to 41 Casualty Clearing Station at Wanquentin. Its War Diary says: “25th December, Xmas Day. Concert for patients. Admissions 5 inc. 1 officer and 1 wounded. Pte Waters O.R. died, shrapnel wound, arm. Remaining patients 143.” He is buried in the Wanquentin Communal Cemetery extension, Pas de Calais.
CWGC adds that he was the son of James Curtis Waters and Fanny Marie Waters, of Acle; husband of Laura Waters, of Old Rd., Acle, Norfolk.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=80311
No match on Norlink
On the 1901 Census, the 8 year old Owen, born Acle, is recorded as living near the Rectory, Strumpshaw. This was the household of his widower father, James Kurks Waters, (aged 49 and a Road Surveyor from Acle). His other children are Benjamin R, (aged 11), Fanny M, (aged 16), Harriet F, (aged 13), James R, (aged 17 and an apprentice carpenter), Kathleen, (aged 10), and Wallace R, (aged 14).
A search for Owen Waters on Google throws up a number of links to a local Broadland Artist by the same name, who was born in 1916, (and who passed away in 2004). Unfortunately none appeared to have any biographical details. Was this a son who could never remember his father, or a child of a close family member named in his honour. I’d love to know.
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Benjamin Watts………………………………...................................(RoH)
SS/114488 Stoker 1st Class Watts, H.M.S. Natal who died on Wednesday 30th December 1915 aged 22 years. Having worked as a farm labourer he joined the Royal Navy on a five-year engagement in 1913. His final ship was H.M.S. Natal which blew up and sank at her moorings whilst being refitted at Cromarty. 421 officers and men perished in the explosion. A Court Martial found that the explosion was caused by spontaneous combustion of cordite in the ship’s magazines. The wreck of H.M.S. Natal is designated as a Military Maritime Grave and Benjamin Watts is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
CWGC adds that he was the Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Watts, of Ploughman's Home, Acle, Norwich.
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=4005200
Stoker Watts can be seen here
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The most likely match on the 1901 Census is a 7 year old Benjamin, born Gorleston and now living at Acle Road, Billockby. This is the household of his parents, William,(aged 38 and a Farm Labourer\Stockman from Upton), and Ellen, (aged 28 and from Upton.). I’m not sure if both had been married before as the Census also lists a 3 year old daughter, Lily Rivett, born Upton.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Natal_(1905)
www.theinvergordonarchive.org/picture/number8.asp
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(Missed is Private Harold Alfred Victor Miller of the 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment.)
Private Miller can be seen here:
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The accompanying notes read,
Private Miller was born in Acle on 11th May 1897, and educated at Pulham Market School and Surrey Street School, Norwich. He enlisted on 1st September 1914, and was killed in action in France on 8th October 1918
By 1901 the 3 year old Harold was living at 239 Raglan Street, Lowestoft. This was the household of his parents, Harry, (aged 35 and a Baker & Confectioner from Norwich),
and Alice, (aged 34 and from Castle Acre). Their other children are Denton, (aged 5, born Great Yarmouth) and Dorothy, (under 1, born Lowestoft),
This was the period of The Battle of Cambrai, 1918 - (8th - 9th October 1918), which the 6th Division, of which the 9th Norfolks were part, was involved in.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cambrai_(1918)
D&RGW 2-8-2 Class K-28 476 on Train # 462 at Rockwood, Colorado on August 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. At the time of this photo, the D&RGW still dispatched its Daily Train # 461 to Silveton, and it returned to Durango as Train # 462. If an extra capacity train was needed, Train # 463 ran behind # 461, both trains were turned at Silverton, and # 461 returned as # 462, and # 463 returned as # 464.