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4th (Collingwood) Battalion, Royal Naval Division
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Those known to have served with4th (Collingwood) Battalion, Royal Naval Division during the Great War 1914-1918. - Anderson Archibald Walter. Petty Officer (d.4 Jun 1915)
- Annand Wallace Moir. Lt Cmdr. (d.4th Jun 1915)
- Annand Wallace Moir. Lieut-Commander (d.4 Jun 1915)
- Armstrong Charles William. Petty Officer (d.11 Jul 1915)
- Askew George William. Able Seaman (d.4 Jun 1915)
- Atkinson Peter. Able Seaman (d.4 Jun 1915)
- Clyne Henry. Seaman
- Clyne Henry. Sea.
- Cuddy Ernest James. L/Cmdr. (d.5th Feb 1917)
- Duff Walter. Able Sea. (d.4th Jun 1915)
- Ellis Evan Thomas. PO.
- Ellis Evan Thomas. PO.
- High James. Able Sea. (d.4th June 1915 )
- Kilgour James Chandler. Able Sea. (d.7th Oct 1914)
- McDonald George Dixon. Able Sea. (d.4th Jun 1915)
- Williams Henry Thomas. Sea.
- Windsor MID. George. Acting Lt.
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Petty Officer Charles William Armstrong Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division (d.11 Jul 1915) Charles Armstrong served in Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division Remembered at . WW1
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Able Seaman Peter Atkinson Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division (d.4 Jun 1915) Peter Atkinson served in Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division Remembered at . WW1
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Able Seaman George William Askew Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division (d.4 Jun 1915) George Askew served in Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division Remembered at . WW1
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Lieut-Commander Wallace Moir Annand Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division (d.4 Jun 1915) Wallace Annand served in Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division Remembered at . WW1
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Petty Officer Archibald Walter Anderson Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division (d.4 Jun 1915) Archibald Anderson served in Collingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division Remembered at . WW1
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Sea. Henry Thomas Williams 4th (Collingwood) Btn. Royal Naval Division  My grandfather Henry Williams, who originated from Ross on Wye, endured a sad early life. His mother died in 1905 and both he and his younger brother were evicted, along with their father, to a workhouse.
In 1906, when he was about 11 or 12 years old, the brothers were sponsored by local benefactors and sent from the workhouse to a training ship (the Wellesley) moored in the Tyne. There, he was trained in seamanship and as a machine operator, but also as a bugler. His brother perished in 1913. The training ship sank after catching fire, and upon the outbreak of war in 1914 he joined the Royal Naval Division.
He was very fortunate when the majority of his battalion, 4th Battalion Collingwood, were sent to be slaughtered in Gallipoli and he was instead sent to Crystal Palace Depot HMS Victory VI. The fact that he was a bugler I know is recorded on his service record, but I have little or no other information about him except that he stayed local after the war, having married my grandmother in 1919, a local lady from Penge.
He passed away in 1925 and is buried in an unmarked grave in Elmers End Cemetery.
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Sea. Henry Clyne Collingwood Battalion Harry Clyne served in the Collingwood Battalion, Naval Brigade.
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Able Sea. George Dixon McDonald Collingwood Battalion (d.4th Jun 1915) My great uncle, Able Seaman George McDonald of the Collingwood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, was killed on Friday 4th Jun 1915 in the Third Battle of Krithia on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
He was 22 and an apprentice riveter at J.P. Rennoldson and Sons shipyard, Shadwell Street, South Shields.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial at Gallipoli.
He was the eldest son of John and Henrietta McDonald of 111 Commercial Road, South Shields.
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Seaman Henry "Harry" Clyne Collingwood Battalion Harry Clyne, my grandfather, was a POW from early in the war being involved in the Ostend debacle in 1914 as part of the Collingwood Battalion of the 63rd Naval Divison. His time as a POW wasn't easy and he said he often attended funerals due to the poor conditions in which they were kept. Although he learnt German as a POW he refused to speak a word after his release. Unfortunately he sold his 1914 star to a medal collector in the 1930s so his WW1 medal trio is incomplete. He was also awarded the LSGC medal. If anyone knows the whereabouts of his 1914 star I would be most interested in acquiring it.
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PO. Evan Thomas Ellis Collingwood Btn.  My grandfather, Evan Ellis, was born in Bagillt, Flintshire on 3rd September 1889. In 1907 he successfully applied to join the Mersey Division of the RNVR at HMS Eaglet, Customs House, Liverpool. In order to enrol as a boy seaman my grandfather needed to be under 18. So on his application he lied about his age and his Service Certificate states his birthday as 3rd October, thus making him one day under 18 when he signed up on 2nd October 1907. In reality he was 18 years and 1 month old.
Up to 1907 Grandfather had been a rope splicer in the coal mining industry of North Staffordshire coal field. Still in the RNVR, he joined the Merchant Navy in late 1911 and spent three years at sea gaining valuable experience which was to ensure his rapid promotion upon being mobilised for the RND in late 1914.
Commencing training at HMS Victory in Portsmouth as an Ordinary Seaman on 4th October 1914 he quickly rose through the ranks of Able Seaman, Leading Seaman and had attained the rank of Petty Officer by 12th December. He was now 25 years old. In February 1915, after the RND returned from Antwerp and their battalions reformed, grandfather was assigned to the Collingwood Battalion and placed as 2nd I/C of B Company 3rd Platoon under the command of Sub Lt Arthur Watts RNVR. The Collingwoods were held back at Blandford when the 1st and 2nd Brigades RND were dispatched for Egypt in early March 1915. Collingwood along with Benbow and Hawke Battalions were held in reserve at Bulford to complete their training.
On 10th May 1915 the Collingwood Battalion left Bulford to embark on SS Ivernia at Devonport, sailing on 12th May for a fast passage to Gibraltar arriving on 16th May for coaling and further orders. Owing to German U-boat activity, Ivernia sailed the same day for Malta arriving on 19th May. The ship stayed in Malta for 26 hours for rest and recuperation before proceeding to Mudros late on 20th May arriving on the 23rd May.
On 27th May the Battalion were given orders to proceed to the front at Cape Helles and were transferred by lighters at night to the now famous River Clyde and landed on V Beach early morning on 28th. For the next three days the Collingwoods were engaged in trench digging preparing for action which was to come so abruptly in a few days. In early June my grandfather was probably relieved to be given four days "stand easy" with the rest of the battalion.
This "stand easy" was curtailed and on 3rd June the Collingwoods were ordered forward to the frontline trenches in preparation for a general attack on 4th June. This action was to become the 3rd Battle of Krithia. At 1210 on 4th June the Collingwoods went over the top. By 1245 the battalion had taken terrible casualties and were in retreat. In just over thirty minutes they had suffered almost 500 casualties killed, wounded or missing. 16 out of 24 officers were killed and 5 were wounded including Sub Lt Watts, my grandfather's Platoon Commander. Grandfather, uninjured, was able to lead the remnants of his platoon back to relative safety of the support trenches.
Two days later, on 6th June, the Turks mounted a counterattack and my grandfather received shrapnel wounds, to his lower back, from an exploding shell. Evacuated via a casualty clearing station he was transferred to RNH Bighi on Malta aboard HMHS Soudan. He remained here for about a week before being transferred back to UK arriving on 30th June and admitted to Chatham RNH.
On 21st October 1915 he was returned to the 2nd Reserve Battalion in HMS Victory but finally succumbed to his injury and was declared unfit for further service on 24th November 1915. My grandfather was awarded the War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914-15 Star as well as becoming the 100th recipient of the Silver War Badge.
My grandfather continued as a coal miner until WW2 when he became a War Reserve Police Officer. He died in 1970 still carrying the shrapnel in his lower back.
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Able Sea. Walter Duff Collingwood Battalion (d.4th Jun 1915) Walter Duff served with the Collingwood Battalion.
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PO. Evan Thomas Ellis Collingwood Battallion  Evan Ellis joined the RNVR on 4th October 1914 as an Ordinary Seaman and was attached to HMS Victory Barracks in Portsmouth. Evan had previously been at sea in the merchant navy for 4 years and it is because of this experience that he very rapidly rose to the rank of Petty Officer by 12th December 1914. In early February he joined the Collingwood Battalion of RND that underwent basic infantry training at Blandford Camp in Dorset. He was made 2nd I/c of "B" Company 3rd Platoon.
On 10th May 1915 the Collingwood Battalion embarked on the HM Transport Ship Ivernia at Devonport and sailed on 12th for the Dardanelles. The ship stopped briefly at Gibraltar and Malta arriving at Mudros Harbour on 23rd May. During the next week the Collingwood Battalion underwent further field operational training in order to acclimatise to the searing heat.
On 29th May the Battalion embarked on lighters to be transported to Cape Helles where they disembarked via the legendary River Clyde and to trenches some 1.5 miles inland. During the next few days the Collingwood Battalion was to come under light mortar shell attack but suffered no casualties. All was to change on 4th June during a sustained battle for in which the Collingwood Battalion suffered heavy casualties. This became known as the 3rd Battle of Krithia. The Battalion lost 16 officers and over 500 men were killed or wounded. Evan Ellis survived this day, leading the remains of his platoon to safety after Lt. Watts, the platoon commander, was seriously wounded.
Two days later on 6th June the Battalion came under further attack and Evan recieved a serious wound from a mortar shrapnel that lodged in his lower back. He was transferred to battle dressing station and on to a casualty clearing Center before embarking on the hospital ship and evacuated to one of the many Military Hospitals that had been set up in Malta.
Evan returned to England and was treated at Chatham RNH but was declared unfit for further service because of his injury. Evan was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. He also received the Silver War Badge recognising his injuries.
Evan Ellis served as a War Reserve Police Officer during WW2 and died in 1970 at the age of 81.
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Able Sea. James High Collingwood Battalion (d.4th June 1915 ) James High joined up in November 1914. He was a miner aged 24 and married to Mary nee Scott and had two young children
He was sent to train in the Royal Naval Volunteers Reserve as an Able Seaman in the Collingwood Battalion. He was reported missing presumed killed on 4th June 1915 and his young son died shortly after from diptheria.
He is my husband's 2nd cousin and his name is on the Memorial in St Marys Church Holywell.
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L/Cmdr. Ernest James Cuddy 4th (Collingwood) Bn (d.5th Feb 1917) Ernest Cuddy died 05/12/1917 aged 30. He is buried in the Rotterdam (Crooswijk) General Cemetert in Holland.
He was the son of the late Capt. James Cuddy (R.N.) and husband of Muriel Cuddy, of Portland Terrace, Southsea, Hants.
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Able Sea. James Chandler Kilgour Collingwood Battalion Royal Naval Division (d.7th Oct 1914) James Chandler Kilgour served with Collingwood Battalion R. N. Division Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, he died 7th October 1914 aged 25.
Born in Jarrow in 1887, he was the son of Alexander and Mary Kilgour (formerly Bell nee Chandler.) On the 1911 census James Chandler Kilgour is listed as being aged 24, a Ships Painter in Shipyard and lodging at 282 High Street, Jarrow.
James is remembered on the Nieuport Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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Acting Lt. George Windsor MID. HMS Collingwood George VI Windsor, later King of the United Kingdom fought in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. He was mentioned in despatches for his action as a turret officer aboard the Collingwood during the Battle of Jutland (31 May – 1 June 1916), an indecisive engagement with the German navy that was the largest naval action of the war.
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Lt Cmdr. Wallace Moir Annand Colingwood Btn. Royal Naval Division (d.4th Jun 1915) Lieutenant-Commander Wallace Moir Annand, was killed with the Collingwood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division at Gallipoli in June 1915. His son Richard was the first soldier to be awarded a Victoria Cross in the Sceond World War.
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