Royal Naval Division magazine

Between June 1997 and March 2003 Len Sellers produced and edited a three-monthly magazine on the history of the Royal Naval Division, which from July 1916 was known as the 63rd (RN) Division. This excellent magazine eventually extended to 24 issues with a separate index for each eight magazines. The complete set contained 2,443 pages with 581 photographs, 75 maps and 71 poems.

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RND Magazine: Contents pages
R.N.D. Issue 1 - June 1997. Pages 1-68

Front cover:- Royal Naval Division's postcard of 1916. 

Introduction to R.N.D. 

Brief history of the Royal Naval Division, showing the different battalions & actions. 

Antwerp:- 

Letters by Rupert Brooke on his experience during the campaign 

Account by Chaplain Clapham Foster, M.A. 

Observations by J.M.N. Jeffries a correspondent of the 'Daily Mail'. 

Map of Antwerp and surrounding areas. 

Photos:-     

Naval Brigade carrying ammunition into the trenches. 

Naval Brigade in trenches near Antwerp. 

Crystal Palace:-

'Some observations of Prominent Palations' (poem)

Troops hanging out washing at Crystal Palace. (photo)

Crystal Palace Post Office - The morning rush for mail (photo)

In the Egyptian Court (photo)

The refreshment counter of the Y.M.C.A. (photo)

Hammocks (photo) 

Account of its daily life and formation as a training establishment. 

Gallipoli:-

Map of Peninsula & the Dardanelles. 

Reports on the raids by the Plymouth Bn, Marines on Sedd-ul-Bahr & Kum Kale in early March 1915.

Lists of Casualties. 

Map of Gallipoli in the area of Skew Bridge Cemetery, Krithia road, Observation Hill, Achi Baba Nullah, Romano's well, White House, Brown House & Backhouse Post. 

Article on this area during visit in 1992. 

Dug-out on Observation Hill. (photo)

One of two large ventilation holes (photo)

Shelves found inside (photo)

Drake Bn. List of officers in May 1916 and photo of Drake Bn. cap badge. 

Lists of Royal Naval Divisions Commanding Officers 1914-1918. 

G.O.C. 1st R. Naval. Brigade.                Royal Marine Brigade. 

G,S,O,1. 1st Brigade.                                3rd Royal Marine) Brigade. 

AA. & Q.M.G. 2nd R. Naval. Brigade.    lst (Royal Naval) Brigade. 

B.G., R.A. 2nd Brigade.                              2nd (Royal Naval) Brigade. 

188th Brigade. 189th Brigade.                190th Brigade. 

Execution of 4 members of Hood Bn on Western Front. Part I. 

Western Front:-

Snippets From 189th Brigade Routine Orders. 

Accidents. 

Sanitation. 

Unserviceable Rockets, Ground Flares, Smoke Candles. Disposal of Wooden labels. 

Use of Dummy Detonators.

Dangerous Habits. 

Gifts. 

Accidental Injuries. 

Petrol Tins. 

Cemeteries. 

School of Sanitation. 

Discipline. 

Dripping. 

Tent Camouflaging. 

Blandford. Article on Collingwood Comer by Roy Adam. 

Photo of Collingwood Memorial at 3 Mile Point. 

Back Cover Photos:- 

Captain R.W. Annand VC DL, son of Lieutenant Commander Wallace Annand who was Adjutant of Collingwood Bn. Arm in arm with Roy Adam of the Royal Naval association at Blandford on 4th June 1996. Marcel Sellers with Vera Murray the daughter-in-law of the late Joseph Murray, Hood Bn. at Blandford on 4th June 1996

R.N.D. Issue 2 - September 1997. Pages 69 - 142.

Front cover photograph - Rusting metal on 'W' beach.

Crystal Palace:-

'A Song "I Wish I Were." (poem)

Men training (photo)

Fruit Stall (photo)

Douglas Jerrold (photo)

Musketry Classes (photo)

Officers Training.

Woman's Work.

Dardanelles:-

Voyage to.

Lists of ships with units and numbers carried.

SS Royal George (photo)

Establishment of the R.N.D. April 1915.

Execution of 4 members of the Hood Battalion on Western Front. Part 2.

Officers who died in the Royal Naval Division (Air - Cas)

Anson Bn. List of battalion's officers May 1916 and photo of Anson Bn Cap Badge.

Battle of Ancre November 1916:-

Article by Captain Christopher Page.

Map of battlion locations and attack lies.

Map of Divisional boundary

Photo of German barbed wire.

Awards 189th Brigade during 13th/14th/15th November 1916.

Antwerp:-

Official report by General Rawlinson.

Last Train from Antwerp (photo)

Dunkirk Harbour at the time of the arrival of the Naval Brigades (photo)

Trenches at Vieux Dieu (photo)

Oil Tanks on fire at Hoboken (photo)

Map drawn at the time of the operations.

Gallipoli:-

Incident at Gully Ravine, story of 1992 visit.

Men of the R.N.D. coming back to rest camp (photo)

Bones in Gully Ravine (photo)

R.N.D. Issue 3 - December 1997. Pages 143 - 218.

Front cover:- R.N.D. Post Card.

R.N.D. Christmas Card (photo)

Colonel Quilter:-

Poem - Colonel Quilter.

Photos of Colonel Quilter

Colonel Quilter's grave

Crystal Palace:-

'The King at the Crystal Palace.'

Physical training (photo)

Gallipoli:-

Article - Abide Motel, French Cemetery Morto Bay, H.M.S. Goliath, S Beach, and Turkish Memorial.

Photo of French Cemetery.

Hawke Bn. List of Battalion's officers May 1916 and photo of Hawke cap badge.

Anzac:-

Anzac from the sea (photo)

The Royal Naval Division at. Anzac (photo)

Maps of Anzac.

Photos of David Empson.

Account of the operations by Private Thomas Henry Baker of Chatham Bn.

Account of the operations by Private Joseph Clements of Deal Bn.

Research at Fleet Air A museum

Officers who died in the Royal Naval Division (Cat - Ely)

Antwerp:-

Statement by Commodore W. Henderson 1st Royal Naval Brigade.

Howe Bn. on Mount Temple (photo)

R.N.D. Transports in harbour (photo)

'D' Company Howe Bn. (photo)

In trenches at Vieux Dieu (photo)

Hood Bn. Figurine (photo)

Gallipoli:-

Medical Unit R.N.D. War Diary.

Surgeon A. Crook outside his dug out (photo)

Interior of dressing station (photo)

Gavrelle Windmill:-

Article 28th April 1917. By Kyle Tallett

Photos of Gavrelle Windmill.

Graves (photo)

Maps of Gavrelle area.

Photo rear cover:- 1914 Medal of Stoker 1st Class S.A. Todd.

R.N.D. Issue 4 - March 1998. Pages 219 - 314.

Front cover a photo of Helles Memorial, Gallipoli.

Poem 'To the 63rd (RN) Division'.

Howe Bn. List of Battalion's Officers May 1916.

Photo of Howe cap badge.

Service history of Alan Herbert King of Drake Battalion.

Photos of King.

Article on the History of the Royal Naval Division 1914-1918 By Captain C. Page.

Photo of Vere Harmsworth.

Photos of R.N.D. Bearers escorting German prisoners, August 1918.

Poems by A.P. Herbert 'The German Graves' & 'The Tide'.

Officers who died in the Royal Naval Division (Emm - Hea)

Photo of Surgeon McCracken, Hood Battalion.

Service of McCracken in October 1917.

Antwerp:-

Narrative by Commodore Wilfred Henderson.

Lieut Capel and Surgeon A.H. Crook near trenches (photo)

Locals throwing up apples etc to the R.N.D. in retreat (photo)

Crystal Palace Poem:- 'The Tablets of As it tickleth my fancy.'

The R.N.D. Missing:-

An article - 1st in series by Trevor Tasker.

Photos I.D. tags.

Gravestones.

Incident in 1992 at the Nek, Antwerp.

Gallipoli:-

Armoured Car Division. Article by Steve Chambers.

Rolls Royce Armoured cars of the No 3 and 4 Squadrons with Scott Motorcycles (photo)

Sub Lieut Illingworth and Mitchell along with men of No 3 Sqd. On route 1915 (photo)

River Clyde at X Beach after the landing (photo)

Deck of River Clyde in Lemnos Bay prior to landing (photo)

On River Clyde, April 1915 (photo)

RNACD gun crew on River Clyde (photo)

No.3 Sqd. Men manning Maxims (photo)

Sub Lieut McClaren with Armoured car in dugout (photo)

4 Rolls Royce cars in shelters (photo)

RNACH burial party at Cape Helles (photo)

In bivouac at Helles (photo)

Q.M. Stores at Helles (photo)

Officers in dugouts (photo)

Officers and Petty Officers at base camp Helles (photo)

Collingwood Battalion Memorial at Blandford.

Maps of Blandford Camp.

Photograph of Major General Sir Archibald Paris.

R.N.D. Issue 5 - June 1998. Pages 315 - 406.

Front cover photograph of a member of the Royal Naval Division in blue uniform.

'The Windmill. A Song of Victory' Concerning Gavrelle (poem)

'The Wisdom of Wunstar' (poem)

The experiences of James Thompson, Plymouth Bn. i.r.o. Training, Ostend, Dunkirk & Gallipoli.

'Y' Beach, Gallipoli (poem)

Landing of Plymouth Bn at 'Y' Beach by Surgeon R.M. Meller.

Nelson Bn, returning from Ostend on Ship, 10th Oct 1914 (photo)

Howe Bn, returning from Ostend on ship, showing Commodore Backhouse (photo)

Antwerp:-

Report by Midshipman Hubert. W. Campion, Hawke Bn.

Map of fort.

Rupert Brooke:-

1st part of 4 part series on his letters

'The Dead' - a poem by Rupert Brooke

Copy of Brooke's Commission of15th Sept 1914

Photo of Rupert Brooke, outside his Blandford Camp hut

Poem 'And drowsy drunken seaman.'

Poem by Brooke 'The Soldier.'

Crystal Palace poem:- 'The Tablets ofAzit-Tigleth-Miphansi.'

Western Front - Trench Life Snippets from 1891h Brigade Routine Orders:-

Damage to crops.

Laundry.

Sanitation.

Discipline.

Lime Juice.

Cookery.

Latrines.

Grenades.

Incinerators.

Leave.

Armourers.

Censorship.

Vehicles.

Leakage of information.

Skin Disease.

First Aid Rest Camp.

Nelson Bn. List of Battalion's Officers May 1916 and photo of Nelson Battalion cap badge.

Gallipoli - Reports on Sanitary Conditions:-

Liquid 'C'.

Dug-Outs an Offices.

Manure Heaps.

Properties of Liquid.

Latrines.

Mules.

Post Seriptem.

Communication Trench with Turk's boot and foot exposed (photo)

Cremating enemy dead (photo)

Report on Sanitary Scheme for the R.N.D.

Map of Sanitation area.

Account by Joseph Clements, Deal Bn. on Food, Lice & Conditions at Gallipoli.

Report on Nervous Prostration.

Officers who died in the Royal Naval Division (Hen - Lit)

Experiences of The Hon Charles Lister at Constantinople During July and August 1914 when employed by British Foreign Office.

Poem by A.P. Herbert 'The Quartermaster.'

The War Service of William Shackleton, Howe Bn.

Photos of William Shackleton and another in hospital clothing.

Article by Trevor Tasker - Part 2 of Introduction to the R.N.D. Missing.

Serre Road Cemetery, Thiepval Memorial (photo)

Photo rear cover:- 2nd Royal Naval Brigade, practising an attack, June 1915.

R.N.D. Issue 6 - September 1998. Pages 407 - 510.

Front cover photo:- Sub Lieutenant Edwin Dyett's grave.

Poem - 'The R.N.D. at the Crystal Palace Army.'

The War History of William George Benham, officer of Hawke Bn.

Hood Bn. List of Officers May 1916 and photo of Hood Battalion cap badge.

Antwerp - Often Overlooked those who died whilst interned.

Poem - 'Youth & Age.'

Rupert Brooke in uniform (photo)

Rupert Brooke :- 2nd part of the Letters of Rupert Brooke, training & voyage to the east.

Hood Bn, Officers at Blandford Camp Feb 1915 (photo)

Brooke's I.D. disk (photo)

On Grantully Castle, shows officers Freyberg, Parsons & Hood (photo)

Grantully Castle at Mudros (photo)

Hood Bn. Officers on boat deck (photo)

Map of Lemnos, drawn by Patrick Shaw Stewert.

Battleship approaching port at Malta (photo)

Officers exercising on the Grantully Castle. Shows officers, Kelly, Graham & Nobbs (photo)

Lemnos in March 1915 showing 'A' Company Hood Bn. with officers Freyberg & Nelson (photo)

Lemnos. Officer Johnny Dodge naked (photo)

Poem:- 'Zero' by A.P.Herbert.

'Moral' by A.P. Herbert.

Officers who died in th Royal Naval Division (Lov- Ree)

Tow men of Hood Bn of Lewis Gun Section (photo)

Lewis Gun Training on Western Front by Joseph Murray of Hood Bn (photo)

Antwerp - ' Retreat to Internment,.' By Staff Officer, Major Seely.

Gallipoli:-

 Anson Bn. at Suvla & Anzac August 1915.

Map of Suvla area.

A' Beach at Suvla Bay waiting for water (photo)

Full List of Officers and men with graves at Helles:-

Lancashire Landing Cemetery. 173 graves.

'V' Beach Cemetery. 2 graves.

Pink Farm Cemetery. 26 graves.

Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery. 29 graves.

Skew Bridge Cemetery. 127 graves.

Redoubt Cemetery. 176 graves.

Full List of Officers and men with graves at Anzac:-

Lone Pine Cemetery. 7 graves.

4th Battalion Parade Ground Cemetery. 3 graves.

Courtney's and Steel's Post Cemetery. 4 graves.

Quinn's Post Cemetery. 1 grave.

Walker's Ridge Cemetery. 1 grave.

Beach Cemetery. 23 graves.

Shrapnel Valley Cemetery. 3 graves.

Ari Bumu Cemetery. 1 grave.

Full List of officers and men with graves at Suvla:-

Lala Baba Cemetery. 2 graves.

Map of Graves on Gallipoli Peninsula.

Abbeville Graves in this Area of France, article by Trevor Tasker.

Le Crotoy Cemetery.

Arry Cemetery.

Doudelainvile Cemetery.

Abbeville Cemetery.

Map of Abbeville Area.

Photo:- Graves at Le Crotoy Communal Cemetery. Including Edwin Dyett's grave.

Maps of Somme Bay, Doudelainville and Abbeville Cemetery.

Photo rear cover:- Men of 63rd (RN) Div with a dead Fox in 1918.

R.N.D. Issue 7 - December 1998. Pages 511 - 622.

Front Cover Photo Commander Walter Sterndale Bennett of the Drake Bn.

Poem - 'To The Regiment A Christmas Message'. By A.P. Herbert

Crystal Palace, Blandford & Gallipoli

The experiences of Arthur Egerton Watts. Leading Seaman & Sub Lieutenant Collingwood Bn.

'We Are Fred Karno's Navy' (poem)

Collingwood broach (photo)

At King's inspection Pimperne, Blandford in February 1915 (photo)

Poem - 'Dedication' by A.P. Herbert.

Rupert Brooke

3rd Part of the Letters of Rupert Brooke, Egypt.

At the Sphinx (photo)

Rupert Brooke ill, under green canvas awning 2nd April 1915 (photo)

Sub Lieutenant William Denis Browne (photo)

The fleet at anchor in Trebuki Bay at Skyros (photo)

Practising boat drill in Trebuki Bay, Skyros (photo)

View from the foc'sle of Grantully Castle (photo)

Rupert Brooke's grave (photo)

Maps of  R.N.D. Camp at Egypt.

Sketch map of Skyros drawn by Rupert Brooke.

Poem - 'Fragment' by Rupert Brooke.

Poem - 'The Dance' by Rupert Brooke.

Poem - 'Lines for an Ode-Threnody on England' by Rupert Brooke.

1st & 2nd Royal Marines Battalions list of officers May 1916. and cap badge.

Antwerp - The experiences of Sub Lieutenant Ivor Fraser Hawke Bn.

Royal George - The voyage of this transport from 27th Feb 1915 to 25th May 1915.

Men of Hood Bn. on Grantully Castle 27th/28th April 1915 (photo)

Alnwick Castle towing a water lighter (photo)

Commander Walter Sterndale Bennett D.S.O. & Bar, Drake Bn.

Experiences

Sterndale Bennett

In trench at Gallipoli.

With his Bn. Officers on Western Front.

Drake's Drum.

Bennet's grave.

Drawing by Sterndale Bennett

Two maps of Gavrelle.

Copy of receipt for Drake's Drum.

Uniforms

Article by Martin Brayley.

Photos of different stages of uniform.

Officers who died in the Royal Naval Division (Ree - Sta)

Dozinghem Military Cemetery

Article by Trevor Tasker.

Map of Ypres & Poperinghe area.

Dozinghem Cemetery (photo)

Poem - 'The Army System'.

Photo rear cover :- Greek trader on W Beach, Gallipoli

R.N.D. Issue 8 - March 1999. Pages 623 - 726.

Front cover photo - Arthur Walderne St ClairTisdall.VC.

Description of the R.N.D. by Churchill.

Poem - 'The Battle of Codson's Beard' by A.P. Herbert

List of Officers who served at Antwerp by battalion.

Arthur Walderne Tisdall V.C. Anson Bn. article by David Heald.

River Clyde aground on V Beach (photo)

V Beach 25th April 1915 (photo)

Daniel Dunn, A.B. Nelson & Hawke Battalions, R.N.D. service.

Daniel Dunn (photo)

Copy of 'Certificate For Wounds and Hurts.'

Poem - 'Digging, a song of the spade' by A.P. Herbert

Officers who died in the Royal Naval Division (Sta - You)

March 1918. Backs to the Wall

The Royal Marines by KyleTallett

Map of March retreat and daily positions of R.N.D.

Troops attacking wearing gas masks (photo)

Dead troops during a gas attack (photo)

Aveluy Wood -The Royal Marines Fight Back, April 1918 by KyleTallett

Divisional Headquarters, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Brigade Headquarters, lists of officers May 1916.

Rupert Brooke

4th Part of Rupert Brooke, concerning grave at Skyros. Visit by HMS Endeavour

Rupert Brooke's grave. 5th April 1920 (photo)

Grave with corner pillars (photo)

Rugby memorial plaque (photo)

Statue memorial to Brooke (photo)

Cross at Clifton Road, Cemetery (photo)

War Service of Melville Vernon House, Royal Marines, Divisional Train, and copy of his Attestation papers.

Antwerp - The Missing Car by Sub Lieutenant S.R. Chichester. Paymaster's Staff Motor Driver.

Motor Owners Drivers, article by Tony Froom.

Notes from the Front

Royal Naval Divisions Memorandum at Gallipoli.

Trench warfare.

Trench design.

Part 1 of War History of Able Seaman Thomas Macmillan. Benbow Bn.

The Beginning.

Crystal Palace.

Portsmouth

Blandford.

Royal Naval Division recruiting poster (photo)

Poem - Blandford. 'Collingwood Act of Remembrance - 4th June 1998.

Naval Trench Cemetery

Article by Trevor Tasker.

Map of Naval Trench Cemetery & area of Gavrelle.

Aerial Photo of Naval Trench Cemetery (photo)

Ship's Company HMS Dragon.

RN Anchor Memorial.

Cross of Sacrifice.

Headstone of L/Smn Burdon and Hawke Bn badge.

Naval Ensign

Photo rear cover :- Officers chickens (Gallipoli).

R.N.D. Issue 9 - June 1999. Pages 727 - 832.

Front cover:- Photo of a Royal Naval Division recruiting poster.

Antwerp

Part 1 'The Moerbeke Affair.

Train carrying R.N.D. passes an armoured train (photo)

Grave of Colonel F. W. Luard. Portsmouth Bn. (photo)

Gallipoli

Diary of Sapper Ernest Leonard Mason Engineers Unit, R.N.D.

Ernest Mason. (photo)

Grave of Ernest Mason (photo)

Poem - 'Those who lived, and those who died'.

Reports of The Rev Bevill Close on stretcher carrier at Gallipoli.

The Rev Bevill Close conducting a funeral at Skew Bridge Cemetery.

Western Front

Notes from the War Diary of Assistant Provost Marshall.

Poem - 'Whizz Bang'.

A Lecture on Trench Warfare.

Machine Gun Company, Cavalry Corps Troops Supply Column, Cyclist Company, Engineer Units, & Divisional Train, Medical Unit & Signal Company. List of officers May 1916.

Poem - 'To James' by A.P. Herbert.

The Maligned iro poem by A.P. Herbert.

Poem - 'The Chain of Responsibility' by A.P. Herbert.

Part 2. Of War History of Able Seaman Thomas Macmillan. Benbow Bn.

Into Battle at Gallipoli.

French Senegalese.

Lice & Flies.

Swimming.

First Advance by Benbow Bn.

Battle of4th June 1915. (3rd Battle of Krithia.)

Benbow Bn disbanded.

Dysentery.

52nd Lowland Division's attack of 12th/13th July 1915.

Photos:-

Fish killed by Asiatic Ann

Backhouse Post.

Surgeon Boswick in Oxford Communication Trench.

Entrance to Regent Street.

Lieutenant Spencer Warwick bringing in 'C' Company Anson Battalion.

1st Platoon 'A' Company, Drake Battalion.

R.N.D. Salvage on 'W' Beach.

Inspection of Howe Bn. by General Sir Ian Hamilton.

Maps:-

Showing Turkish Advanced trenches 5th July 1915.

Marked secret of front line trenches 18th July 1915.

Western Front:- Account by Surgeon Lieutenant A.L.P. Gould. During retreat March 1918.

Photos:-

Examining the dead British and German.

Prepared for a gas attack.

Poem - 'Beaucourt Revisted' by A.P. Herbert.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with no known graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial (Ada- Bla)

War history of Cpl Francis William Matthews, Royal Marie Light Infatry, Portsmouth Battalion.

Action at Anzac.

Corporal Francis William Matthews (photo)

Photo:- Rear cover Shrapnel Valley Cemetery and Aileen Thompson

R.N.D. Issue 10 - September 1999. Pages 833 - 940.

Front Cover:- Photo The Royal Marines at Ostend in 1914.

Poem - 'Great Thoughts'

Part 3 of War History of Able Seaman Thomas Macmillan. Drake Battalion.

Stalemate & Evacuation at Gallipoli.

Cypress tree at entrance to Easter Mule Trench (photo)

Firing Line in old R.N. Division Sector (photo)

French native troops unloading ammunition from River Clyde (photo)

French trenches (photo)

1st R.M.L.L in trenches (photo)

R.M.L.I. Mules and horses in a "K" Drifte (photo).

Men of the Hood Bn at Lemnos (photo)

Working, Working. Working (song)

The Moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin (song)

Roamin in the gloamin (song)

The Turks they did attack (song)

Map - Diagram of enemy trenches. Nov. 10th & 18th.

Poem - 'On Standing to' by A.P. Herbert.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with No Known Graves. Names on Helles Memorial. (Bia-Cha)

Official Memorandum for official use, August 1915.

Extract from "Engineer Training.

Map - Of Trench construction.

Antwerp - Part 2. Of the Moerbeke Affair.

Plan of Moerbeke railway station.

Antwerp - Official reports October 1914.

Poem - 'To My Platoon Sergeant Who May Command Me Anything'.

War History of Petty Officer John Robert Wilkinson, Benbow, Collingwood & Hood Battalions.

Official reports (photo)

Prisoner of War Camp (photo)

J. R. Wilkinson. And others (photo)

War History of Petty Officer T. McLaughlin, Collingwood Battalion.

Western Front - Reports on 'What the Army Higher Command Thought of the 63rd (RN) Division.

Article on graves at Orchard Dump Cemetery in Association with the Arras Memorial to the Missing by Trevor Tasker.

Map of Orchard Dump Cemetery.

Graves in Gavrelle area (photo)

Lt. Neville Lion. (photo)

Orchard Dump Cemetery (photo)

Arras Memorial to the Missing (photo)

Rear cover photo:- Blandford Camp.

R.N.D. Issue 11 - December 1999. Pages 941 - 1042.

Front cover:- Photo of Royal Naval Division's money collection for Christmas, 1914.

Drawing of 'The Rum Ration'.

Poem - 'Rum' by A. P. Herbert.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with No known graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial at Gallipoli (Cha - Dit)

Part 4 Of the War History of Able Seaman Thomas Macmillan. Drake Bn. & 188th Brigade Clerk.

Rest & Retraining.

To France.

Marseilles.

Souchez.

Bully Grenay.

2nd Field Ambulance drilling in P (Phenate) Helmet at Fresnicourt, July 1915 (photo)

Parade 2nd Field Ambulance in Camp June 1916 (photo)

Orchard Valley Relay Bearer Post. 2nd Field Ambulance. Note anti gas blankets (photo)

Rat Pit Bearer Post in Bovril Alley. A Communication trench between Bully-Grenay and the Angres Sector. 2nd Field Ambulance (photo)

Trench Cross Roads, Angres Sector, Bully Alley and Pyrenees Trench, 1916 (photo)

Bovril Alley, Communication Trench from Bully-Grenay to Angres Sector. 18 pounder Field Gun emplacement in mid-distance (photo)

A working party going along a narrow trench (photo)

Ruins of Noulette Chateau, 1916 (photo)

A view of British wire and across "No Man's Land" (photo)

Front Line, Angres Sector (Opposite to Lens) (photo)

Poem - 'Patrols' by A.P. Herbert.

Royal Naval Division Memorandum August 1915.

Hints on the occupation and relief of trenches.

Medical Report of the Action on 4th June 1915. (3rd Battle of Krithia.)

Drawings of Brown House & Achi Baba.

Crystal Palace - Report on the Inspection at the R.N.D. Depot. 10th November 1915.

Gallipoli revisited - By Joseph Murray ex Hood Bn. visit in 1914 and his observations.

British and French troops at the Brown House (photo)

White House a position captured by Hood Bn, on 6th May 1915 (photo)

Presentation of machine gun Friday 14th May 1915 (photo)

The French Genera D'Amade (photo)

Presentation of machine gun captured from the Turks to General D'Amade (photo)

Obituary of Joseph Murray, Hood Bn.

Joseph Murray when blind (photo)

Joseph Murray in Feb 1915 (photo)

Ancre Battle of 13th/14th November 1916. Actions by the 1st Honourable Artillery Company. 190th Brigade.

Report by Medical Officer of Honourable Artillery Company concerning actions 13th/14th Nov.

War experiences of Petty Officer John Tweddle, Collingwood, Howe, Benbow, Anson, Nelson & Hawke Battalions.

John Tweddle & at Blandford Camp (photos)

Scroll that commemorates John Tweddle.

Poem - 'Grandad'.

Report on Stores and Equipment for voyage to Gallipoli.

Walkers Ridge Cemetery, Anzac (photo)

Looking from cemetery towards Suvla Bay and the Salt Lake (photo)

From Walkers Ridge Cemetery looking down to The Sphinx to Ari Burnu Cemetery (photo)

Rear cover photo:- Lieutenant Hedderwick of Hood Bn with his men in a front line trench

R.N.D. Issue 12 - March 2000. Pages 1043 - 1140.

Front Cover:- Photo of 63rd (RN) Division's Machine Gun Company.

Part 5. Of the War history of Able Seaman Thomas Macmillan. Brigade Clerk 188th & 189th Brigade Clerk

The Battle of the Ancre.

Rest & Renewal.

189th Brigade Headquarters.

Sub Lieutenant Dyett

Christmas Day 1916.

Return to Beaucourt.

Flooded area in Ancre Valley (photo)

Mill at Beaucourt sur Ancre (photo)

A smashed up mill near St. Pierre Divion, Nov 1916 (photo)

Railway Station at Beaucourt (photo)

A railway wagon destroyed by shell fire, near Beaucourt, November 1916 (photo)

German Trench Howitzer captured at Beaucourt (photo)

Surgeon C. H. Gow of Anson Bn who was killed 13th Nov. 1916 (photo)

Surgeon Gow and two R.A.M.C. Officers in Advanced Dressing Station at Ablain-St-Nazaire (photo)

Changing the Guard. St. Firmin by Hawke Battlion (photo)

Poem - 'After The Battle' by A. P. Herbert.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division With No Known Graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli (Dix -Far)

Poem - 'The Dud' by A. P. Herbert.

Chatham Battalion, R.M.L.I. War Diary at Gallipoli. From 6th February 1915 to 27th July 1915.

Voyage.

Anzac.

Helles.

Officers of Chatham Bn on bridge of SS Cawdor Castle (photo)

Narrow crowded beach at Anzac (photo)

Map - Early time at Anzac.

Ships that transported the R.N.D. the SS Cawdor Castle.

Dunkerque, Cassel & Antwerp. The Actions of the Royal engineers detachment attached to Royal Marine Brigade by Captain Everard Home Rooke.

Men of the R.N.D. at Vienne Dieu Fort (photo)

Refugees passing through Vienne Dieu (photo)

Death Sentences passed on men of R.N.D. Article by Kyle Tallett.

Western Front - Extracts from the diary of Captain Harold Hom 1st Bn. R.M.L.I. From 8th March 1917 to 7th June 1919.

The Islands - Consecration of the British Military Cemetery at Portiannos, Lenmos on Monday 27th March 1916.

Photo of Consecration.

Hymn sheet.

Plan of Cemetery.

Crystal Palace - Photograph of about 150 Officers with name key.

Rear Cover photograph of Betteshanger Church, Kent and R.N.D. Panel

R.N.D. Issue 13 - June 2000. Pages 1141 - 1248.

Front Cover Photo:- Recruits at Crystal Palace.

Poem - 'At The Dump' by A.P. Herbert.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division. Names appear on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli (Far-Fre)

Part 6. Of the War History of Able Seaman Thomas Macmillan, Brigade Clerk to 189th Brigade.

Puisieux & River Trenches.

Pys & Miramont.

Road & Railway Construction.

With the 1st army.

Gavrelle.

23rd April 1917.

24th April 1917.

Roclincourt.

Drawing - Some sepulchred Gavrelle.

Walmer, Blandford & H.MT Ivernia. An unpublished account in 3 parts of his experiences in the R.N.D. Divisional Engineers - Signals. By Reginald Gale. Part 1 :-

Recruit.

Walmer.

Journey to Blandford Camp.

Blandford Camp.

Afloat.

Reginald Gale (photo)

Blandford Camp huts (photo)

Y.M.C.A. Hut at Blandford (photo)

Rest room at Blandfod Camp (photo)

Set table for dinner at Blandford Camp (photo)

Mudros harbour (photo)

Tents & fleet in Mudros harbour at the island of Lemnos (photo)

'Round the corner, under the tree' (song)

'We are Fred Karno's army. We are the R.N.D.' (song)

Groningen, Holland:- Internment in Holland the experiences of Able Seaman John Henry Bentham. Benbow Bn.

I try to escape.

Our main attempt.

I am commissioned.

Photos :- Kazeine, Groningen.

Group around piano.

Groningen Camp.

Key to Christmas dinner photo.

Christmas dinner.

The Harrier's Club running in snow.

Workshop.

On a route march.

Rugby Team.

One tired sentry.

The Dutch War Minister and Commandant.

John Henry Bentham.

Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. 2nd Field Ambulance. From 4th August 1915 to 4th September 1915.

Account day by day.

Map - Suvla Bay.

Arras - R.N.D. Missing at Arras in Association with Point-Du-Jour Cemetery. Article by Trevor Tasker.

Maps - Around Gavrelle.

Around Arras.

Aerial photograph taken the day before the capture of Gavrelle (photo)

Hood memorial cross (photo)

Gavrelle Church (photo)

Western Front - Complaints of a Wife - The Husband's Letters.

Anzac

Sniper's shield and other items (photo)

Top of Shrapnel Valley, Anzac looking towards the front Line (photo)

Looking down Shrapnel Valley towards the sea (photo)

Rear Cover photo:- Royal Naval engineers at Walmer, Kent on a bridge

R.N.D. Issue 14 - September 2000. Pages 1249 - 1354.

Front Cover photo :- Group photo of R.N.D. Readers Gallipoli tour at the White House, captured by Hood Bn on 6th May 1915.

Poem - 'Cold Feet' by A.P. Herbert

Antwerp :- Account by Ordinary Seaman H. Mellanby, Collingwood Bn.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division. Names appear on the Helles Memorial (Fre- Hol)

Part 7 of the War History of Able Seaman Thomas Macmllan, Brigade Clerk to 189th Brigade.

Blighty leave.

Return to Roclincourt.

To the Ypres Salient.

Herzeele.

Ypres Salient.

Map of area of operations Oct/Nov 1917.

Poem - 'When mothers with gladness'.

Photo - Arthur Mellaud Asquith.

Ships that transported the R.N.D. SS Gloucester Castle.

The service history of William Bradley, Nelson Bn.

William Bradley (photo)

The early days outside a tent.

In camp (photo)

With bandaged arm (photo)

R.N.D. Divisional Engineers, Signals. 'Solo Saga' By Reginald Gale. Part 2.

Ashore.

Battle of 4th June 1915.

5th June 1915.

Back to rest camp.

We make a move.

Interlude on Imbros.

French advancing to the firing line (photo)

French "75" at foot of Caesar's Hill (photo)

French "75" Concealed from aircraft (photo)

Zimmerman's Farm (photo)

R.N.D. Div HQ Signals Office at Gallipoli (photo)

Bathers in Morto Bay (photo)

W Beach on 10th October 1915 (photo)

Section 2 at W Mule Trench in August 1915 (photo)

Signal Office (photo)

R.N.D. Signallers laying cable.

A Despatch rider Signal Company (photo)

Map - Front line dated 30.11.15.

Map - Signal Communications 12th July 1915.

Western Front - 1st Royal Marines at Miraumont. By Kyle Tallett

Plan & Battle.

The cost.

Conclusion.

Honours and awards.

The Battlefield Today.

Map - Plan of attack.

Miraumont Feb 1917.

Miraumont Now.

Lower end of Sunken Road (photo)

Further up this Sunken Road, the objective of Howe Bn (photo)

A view to kill (photo)

Holland Wood (photo)

View Sunken Road to Baillescourt Farm (photo)

Western Front - Investigation of a case of Desertion prior to attack of 17th February 1917.

Gallipoli - Medical report on malaria.

Article on the R.N.D. in Queens Cemetery Bucquoy by Trevor Tasker.

Copy of burial return

Map of original burial sites of RND graves now in Queens Cemetery.

The naughtiest Royal Marine of W.W. 1 by John Morcombe.

Photo - The last annual meeting of the Royal Naval Division Association at Greenwich 1981.

R.N.D. Issue 15 - December 2000. Pages 1355 - 1462.

Front Cover photo:- Royal Naval Division Christmas Card of 1917.

Poem - 'Through The Gate O fHorn' by A.P. Herbert.

Article on Sub Lieutenant A. P. Herbert, Hawke Bn. by John Bailey.

A.P. Herbert as an Ordinary Seaman in Sept 1914 (photo)

1915 as Sub Lieutenant (photo)

Lieut William Ker (photo)

Lieut C. S. Codner (photo)

Poem - 'The General Inspecting the trenches.' By A. P. Herbert.

Gallipoli - Memorandum - Instructions for defence against asphyxiating gas.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with no known graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial (Hol - Hyl)

Gallipoli - Extracts from letters By Kenneth Robert Dundas, an officer of the Collingwood & Anson Battalions.

The grave of The Hon Kenneth Dundas (photo)

View from Lala Baba Cemetery, Suvla, looking towards 'C' Beach (photo)

View from cemetery across the Salt Lake (photo)

Kenneth Robert Dundas (photo)

Commodore Oliver Backhouse the commanding officer of2nd Brigade (photo)

Poem - 'Open Warfare' By A.P. Herbert

Western Front - Report on Operations 30th August to 8th September 1918. Battle of Drocourt-Queant Line.

Map - Operations from August 21st - October 10th 1918.

Canal-Du-Nord & Inchy En Artois from the air (photo)

Transport crossing Canal Du Nord (photo)

Canal Du Nord & Moeuvres from the air (photo)

Gallipoli - Report on Self lnflicted Wounds.

Antwerp - The Examination of Sir Archibald Paris at the Chatham enquiry of 1919.

Map of Antwerp and areas, marked in red at the time of the campaign.

Sir Archibald Paris. (photo)

Troops in a ditch (photo)

Marines on guard watched by locals (photo)

Copy of original order for retreat signed by Paris.

Gallipoli - Report by General Sir Ian Hamilton on the condition of the Royal Naval Division.

Gallipoli - R.N.D. Divisional Engineers, Signals. 'Solo Saga' by Reginald Gale. Part 3.

Back again.

Sedd-el-Bahr.

Advance in the July heat.

Port Arthur.

The final tour.

Ruins of Sedd-el-Bahr (photo)

French troops picking out the clothing of their wounded and dead (photo)

R.N.D. Signals, the General visits the trenches (photo)

Frogging in the Nullah (photo)

Firing line with snipers at work (photo)

Lieut. Hedderwick of Hood Bn having hair cut (photo)

Greenwich - Final Official Reunion of Royal Naval Division Association.

Final Memorial Service by J.H. Bentham.

A privileged onlooker by Tony Froom.

Royal Naval Division's Memorial on Horse Guards Parade (photo)

Back page photo - Gallipoli - A Catapult etc.

R.N.D. Issue 16 - March 2001. Pages 1463 - 1569.

Front cover photo - Hood Bn. cap badge.

Poem -  'A Song of Plenty' by A.P. Herbert.

Western Front - The German attack of March 1918 by Douglas Jerrold.

Map of retreating R.N.D. locations.

Antwerp - Report by Walter Trefusis, Commanding Officer of Collingwood Bn.

War history of A.B. Joseph Threlfall of Howe Bn. who served as Milne, by Peter Threlfall.

Peter Threlfall at grave (photo)

Graves with both names (photo)

Church - Christ The King (photo)

Memorial board (photo)

Remembrance cross (photo)

Gallipoli - Part 1 of the diaries of Sub Lieutenant James Hilton, Sub Lieutenant, Hood Bn. From August to September 1915.

'The Mudhook' Artemas.

Western Front - 7th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, 190th Brigade during 1916

Raid on 7th November 1916.

Battle of the Ancre 13th/14th November 1916.

7th Bn. Royal Fusiliers (photo)

Beaucourt Village from the air (photo)

Field Kitchens near Hamel 1916 (photo)

Map - Area near Beaucourt Sur Ancre.

Gallipoli, Islands & Western Front. The letters of Sir Archibald Paris, commanding officer Royal Naval Division 1914-1916.

Lt. Commander Cheston 2nd O.C. Nelson Bn with Major General Paris and Commodore Oliver Backhouse OC 2nd Brigade at Blandford Camp (photo)

SS Franconia on route to Port Said, March 1915 (photo)

Distribution of Princess Mary's Xmas Gift at Port Said, Egypt (photo)

Single stick fighting on board SS Franconia (photo)

Pillow fighting on SS Franconia (photo)

A few of the wounded on SS Franconia (photo)

Gallipoli - Photographs

 Entrance to Redoubt Cemetery.

Tree-lined track from Krithia Road, leading to the cemetery.

The field of poppies opposite the entrance to Redoubt Cemetery.

Western Front - Edwin Leopold Arthur Dyett Executed Sub Lieutenant of Nelson Bn. Official reports.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with No known graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial. (Iles - Kin)

Gallipoli - Article on commemoration of evacuation walk of 6th Sep 2000 with R.N.D. Readers Tour number 2.

Blandford Camp - Article 'Out of this Stony rubbish.' Excavation of R.N.D. rubbish dump.

Items found. (photo)

Poem 'The Voice of the Slaves'. By Driver Moore, H.Q. D.A.C, R.N.D.

Rear Cover photo - Hood Battalion china.

R.N.D. Issue 17 - June 2001. Pages 1570 - 1679.

Front cover photo - Nelson Bn. cap badge.

Poem - 'Ballade of Incipient Lunacy' by A. P. Herbert.

War history of Brigadier Basil Rackham, M.C. & Bar. Lieut & Adjutant Hawke Bn.

Crystal Palace.

'D' Company Hawke Bn. The Public Schools Company.

Blandford Camp, Dorset Aug 1915.

Tradition in Royal Naval Division.

To Gallipoli with Hawke reinforcement draft

Ashore at Gallipoli.

Opinion of Turks.

Views on the senior commanders.

Opinions on man & officer.

Evacuation.

Mudros & Imbros.

Transfer to France.

Training on Western Front.

Battle of Ancre 13th Nov. 1916.

How his character was developed by experiences.

Informing wives & parents of men who had been killed.

Writing a war diary.

Commanding Officers of the Hawke Bn.

Winter 1917.

Action at the Puisieux and River Trenches, Feb 1917.

Awarded Military Cross.

April 1917 - Gavrelle.

Passchendaele.

Winter Conditions.

Welsh Ridge.

German March 1918 Offensive.

Gassed.

Awarded Bar to Military Cross.

Return to France.

To England.

Demobilised at Crystal Palace.

Basil Rackham in sailor's uniform (photo)

Rackham in dress uniform (photo)

Gallipoli - Part 2 of The Diaries of Sub Lieut James Hilton, Hood Bn. October & November 1915.

Anzac, Gallipoli. War history of Charles Leslie Swales. A.B. Nelson Bn From 24th Feb. 1915 to 3rd May 1915. And an analysis of the Battle experience of his platoon by his son Captain R. C. Swales.

Charles Leslie Swales (photo)

His R.N.D. Identity Disc (photo)

Blandford Camp, Lieut Col. Edmund Eveleigh and the Rev Robert Primrose, Nelson Bn (photo)

Nelson Bn landing at Skyros (photo)

Nelson Bn field Day on the island of Skyros, in Artillery formation (photo)

Part of Nelson Bn resting on Skyros (photo)

Officers of Nelson Bn on ship (photo)

Nelson Bn on SS Minnetoaka listening to Colonel Eveleigh explaining what is being done on Sunday 25th April 1915 (photo)

A group of unidentified ratings (photo)

Charles Swales with two others (photo)

Ratings training with Semaphore flags (photo)

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with no known graves. Names appear on Helles Memorial, Gallipoli (Kin - Leg)

Examination of Commander S.W. Beadle, R.N. Commanding Officer of Hawke Bn.

Gallipoli - Reports on Medical Administration of a Division Holding a Sector of Defence, In Trench Warfare.

"A" General preservation of health.

"B" Dealing with the sick"

"C" Dealing with the wounded.

Poem - 'The Green Estaminet' by A. P. Herbert.

Western Front - Report on Operations 27th September to 2nd October 1918. The Battle of Canal du Nord.

Maps of area of operations.

Anneux Factory near the Cambrai to Bapaume Road from the air (photo)

Cambrai from the air. Smoke over town (photo)

Bapaume Road to Cambrai from the air (photo)

Blandford - Report from the Dorset County Chronicle and Somerset Gazette on the Camp.

Making the roads at Blandford Camp (photo)

Gallipoli

Entrance to Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery (photo)

View of Cemetery (photo)

View from Cemetery to Dardanelles (photo)

Rear Cover Photo - Churchill at Blandford 25th February 1915.

R.N.D. Issue 18 - September 2001. Pages 1680 - 1795.

Front cover photo - Anson Bn. cap badge.

Poem - 'Fate' by A. P. Herbert.

Ostend, Dunkirk, Cassell & Antwerp :- Experiences of Sergeant W.H. Meatyard, Plymouth Bn. R.M.L.I. Transcribed by Bob Thompson.

Officers in a cattle train travelling from Burges to Ostend (photo)

Disembarking at Admiralty Pier Dover (photo)

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with no known graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli (Lei - Mar)

Gallipoli - 'After Nineteen Years some notes on the cruise to Gallipoli April - May 1934 by Lieutenant F.H.Mann, R.N.V.R. Formerly R.N.D. Engineers.

Poem - 'On such a day the song of one was stilled'.

'The Vineyard' near the Krithia Road (photo)

Howe Bn at the R.N.D. rest camp of Drake's Hill (photo)

'X' Beach in November 1915 (photo)

Horse lines in the French areas, showing the water towers (photo)

Poem - 'The Helles Hotel' by A. P. Herbert.

Western Front - Report on Operations 5th to 8th October 1918. The Battle of Cambrai.

Major General Blacklock the Commanding Officer (photo)

The Canal (photo)

Maps of the area.

Western Front - Article on The R.N.D's 'Suicide Club' 63rd (RN) Machine Gun Battalion. By Allan C. Mott.

Cap badge of 63rd (RN) Machine gunners (photo)

4 Machine gunners (photo)

The War Experiences of Commander Archibald Walter Buckle D.S.O.& Three Bars.

Commander Buckle's portrait (photo)

The Last Parade of the R.N.D. on Horse Guards Parade, London (photo)

Buckle as a Petty Officer (photo)

Buckle as an officer with his wife (photo)

Commander Buckle (photo)

Buckle's grave (photo)

Buckle's medals (photo)

Memorial Service sheet (photo)

Gallipoli - 3rd Part of the Diaries of Sub Lieut. James Hilton, Hood Bn. December 1915 to January 1916

Sketch by Sid Fish of the view of the islands from Hood Battalion Bivouacs.

Royal Naval Division Roll of Honour - Naval Battalions - Observations and Analyses by Thomas S. Muirhead.

Analysis Year by year.

The Islands - Reports on duties for the R.N.D. after Gallipoli.

Rear page photo - The Anson Battalion Roll of Honour.

R.N.D. Issue 19 - December 2001. Pages 1796 - 1905.

Front Cover photo - R.N.D. Christmas card of 1917.

Poem - 'The Ballard of Jones's Blighty' by A. P. Herbert.

The 1st Lord and the Royal Naval Division. Minutes By Winston Churchill, August 1914 to May 1915. Research by Captain Christopher Page. Part 1 of a 3 part Series.

Western Front - The experiences of Joseph 'Lucky Durham' Murray Hood Bn from September 1916.

Experiences on leave.

Back from leave.

Officers & men.

Inspection by Major General Shute.

Hood Bn. Band (photo)

Major General Cameron Shute (photo)

Joseph Murray (photo)

Copy of Instructions for Officers and Men proceeding on leave (photo)

Song - 'The Old Gallipoli'.

Western Front - Narrative of the Formation and Subsequent Movement of 63rd Divisional Details Battalion in March 1918.

Map - Retreat 1918 by Details Battalion.

Antwerp - Examination by Commander Victor Lindsey Campbell, D.S.O. Commanding Officer Drake Bn.

Commander Victor Campbell (photo)

Antwerp trenches (photo)

Children outside Ostend Station scrambling for pennies (photo)

At sea, returning from Ostend to Dover on SS Fremonia (photo)

Poem - 'The Dug Out' by A. P. Herbert.

Defence of the islands. - Part 4. Of the Diaries of Sub Lieutenant James Hilton, Hood Bn. February to March 1916

Gallipoli - The Achi Baba Nullah, Lieutenant L. Cockey washing in the stream.

Gallipoli - Raid at Kum Kale & Landing at 'Y' Beach by Sergeant W. H. Meatyard, Plymouth Bn. R.M.L.I. Transcribed by Bob Thompson.

Officers of Plymouth Bn on the Braemar Castle (photo)

Postcard on fleet to land troops to destroy forts at the entrance to Dardanelles (photo)

'Y' Beach taken on 25th May 2001 (photo)

'Y' Beach' Sir Robin Ross & Aileen Thompson climbing up in 2000 (photo)

'Y' Beach' Kieran Hegarty and Dale Hjort climbing up in 2001 (photo)

'Y' Beach view from the sea in 2000 (photo)

Lieut Brown & Colonel Palmer of Plymouth Bn (photo)

Surgeon Lieutenant Mellor R.N. of Plymouth Bn (photo)

Map - Area of 'Y' Beach.

The War Diary of Private John Vickers, Plymouth Bn of action at 'Y' Beach. Transcribed by Bob Thompson.

Braemar Castle (photo)

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with no known graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial (Mar - Mil)

War history of Jack Readman Muirhead D.C.M. Hawke Bn. by his son Thomas S. Muirhead.

Jack Muirhead (photo)

In Gallipoli trench (photo)

Two German girls, a photograph taken from a dead German in 1918 (photo)

Jack Muirhead with 3 others (photo)

Rear cover photo - Memorial to Lieutenant Stanley Geary of Collingwood Bn. together with detail by Ray Doe.

R.N.D. Issue 20 - March 2002. Pages 1906 - 2015.

Front Cover photo - Howe Battalion cap badge.

Poem - 'The Mischief-Makers.' By A.P. Herbert.

The 1st Lord and the Royal Naval Division. Minutes By Winton Churchill, August 1914 to May 1915. Research by Captain Christopher Page. Part 2 of a 3 part Series.

Western Front - Report on Operations in Aveley Wood. 5th / 6th April 1918.

Map of area.

Antwerp & Groningen. "'Ard Luck" (poem)

Antwerp & Doberitz. The Diary of a prisoner of war. W. Reid. Able Seaman, Hawke Battalion.

Winston Churchill & Colonel Seely at Antwerp (photo)

Groningen Bread Fund (photo)

Poem - 'Could You'.

3 Photos Groningen Camp, Holland. Showing gardens and huts.

Groningen. 'Impressions of the Camp' by Rev. D. McDougall, M.A.

3 Photos of Groningen Camp Holland.

Camp from on high.

Men in sports wear.

'The Timber Town Follies'

Groningen ' Impressions of Camp' by Rev D. M. Cameron M.A.

4 Photos of Groningen Camp.

Band Playing in field.

Group of men with dogs.

Hawke Bn. R.U.F.C. team.

Men sitting at table.

Poem - 'They Also Serve'.

3 Photos of Groningen Camp

Commodore Henderson with cup & winning football team.

Climbing wall in race.

Running race.

Groningen Camp - Complaints By Some Men.

Report by Wilfred Henderson the Commodore 1st R.N. Brigade iro the above complaints.

Poem - 'Our Path.

Antwerp - Report by Major G. S. Richardson.

Captain Oscar Modin. (photo)

Gallipoli - The terrible experiences of A.B. Ernst Castle of Collingwood Bn.

Poem - 'In Reserve' by A. P. Herbert.

6 colour photos of 'W' Beach Gallipoli.

Gallipoli - Part 5 April 1916-June 1916. The Diaries of Sub Lieutenant James Curzon Hilton, Hood Bn.

Western Front - Report on operations 'The Puisieux & River Trenches. 3rd / 5th February 1917.

Colour map of area.

Casualties on Helles Memorial, Gallipoli (Min - Nor)

Crystal Palace - The R.N.D. Football Team.

Rear page photo- P.T.I. Football Team at Crystal Palace. Wi nners of League.

R.N.D. Issue 21 - June 2002. Pages 2016 - 2124.

Front cover - Drake Battalion cap badge.

Poem - 'The Bomber Gipsey' by A.P. Herbert.

The 1st Lord and the Royal Naval Division. Minutes by Winston Churchill, 1st October 1914 to 4th May 1915. Research by Captain Christopher Page. Part 3 of a 3 part Series.

Winston Churchill (photo)

Antwerp - Examination of Lt. Colonel C McN. Parsons, Commanding Officer Chatham Bn.

Poem - Crystal Palace - 'The Palace Alphabet'

Gallipoli a poem - 'The Bath' by A.P. Herbert.

Embarking on SS Somali (photo)

Gallipoli - 'With the R.N.D.E. Divisional Engineers at Anzac & Helles by Eric Wettern.

Washing day on SS Somali (photo)

On Board SS Aryshire (photo)

General Sir Ian Hamilton & Staff at Port Said inspecting the R.N.D (photo)

Church Parade on Good Friday at Port Said (photo)

'Y' Beach (photo)

'W' Beach (photo)

Wettern in his cellarette (photo)

Dixon at home, underground (photo)

Engineer Gully (photo)

R.N.D. dummies for evacuation (photo)

6 colour photos of Gully Ravine.

Map - French Sector.

Western Front - Welsh Ridge:- Report on Operations in the La Vacquerie - Marcoing Sector 30th/31st Dec 1917.

Map A. Welsh Ridge area.

Map B. Welsh Ridge showing the locations of battaions.

Recommendations for medals at the actions of 30th/3lst Dec 1917. by William Markham lee Egerton, Hood Battalion.

R.N.D. Personality:- Captian Houghton Griffiths, Nelson Battalion.

Photo - Captain Griffiths.

Gallipoli - A collection of letters written by Sub Lieutenants James Curzon Hilton & Sid Fish of Hood Battalion.

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with no known graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial (Nor - Orr)

Back cover - Photo, Sub Lieutenant Joseph Findlay Dickson R.N.V.R. of Nelson Battalion aboard the SS Franconia.

R.N.D. Issue 22 - September 2002. Pages 2125 - 2230.

Front cover - Hawke Battalion cap badge.

Poem - 'The Paralysis Of The Tenth Platoon'.

Article - 'Royal Naval Service Documents In The Archive of the Fleet Air Arm Museum' by Roy Swales.

Article - 'The Re-Instatement of the Royal Naval Division Memorial' by Captain Christopher Page. History of the memorial.

Drawing of the Royal Naval Division Memorial.

Laying up o fthe colours at Greenwich (photo)

Poem - 'The War Dream' by A. P. Herbert.

Western Front 'Report on Operations During the 3rd Battle of Ypres:- Passchendaele.

Plan - radio communications.

Map of Division 26th Oct- 5th Nov 1917.

Map of Division 31st Oct- 5th Nov 1917.

Operations of 26th October 1917 of 188th Infantry Brigade.

Operations of 30th October 1917 of 190th Infantry Brigade.

Operations of 31st October 1917 to 5th November 1917 of 189th Infantry Brigade.

Account of the fighting at Passchendaele by member of Artist Rifles.

Western Front - A Collection of letters by Sub Lieutenant James Hilton of Hood Battalion 4th July 1916- 16th October 1918.

Arthur Asquith (photo)

Bernard Freyberg (photo)

Letter to Hilton by Bernard Freyberg.

J. Hilton at Buckingham Palace after receiving his Military Cross (photo)

Casualties of the Royal Naval Division with no known graves. Names appear on the Helles Memorial (Osc - Phi)

Naval recruiting march in London, men of the R.N.D. to be reviewed by the Lord Mayor of London (photo)

Photograph - Inspection by the Lord Mayor outside the Guildhall.

R.N.D. Issue 23 - December 2002. Pages 2231 - 2345.

Front Cover - The Camp Magazine front cover of December 1915.

Poem - The Trench Code by A. P. Herbert.

Gavrelle - The Royal Naval Division telephone messages.

Map of Gavrelle & Oppy.

Map of the village of Gavrelle.

The Hell That Was Gavrelle - An article by Able Seaman Downe, M.M. Anson Bn.

Gallipoli - 'R.N.D. Medical Unit. Details of officers of Field Ambulances & Battalions.

Surgeon T. C. Blackwell (photo)

Gallipoli - Article by Surgeon Lieutenant C. F. Mayne of2nd Field Ambulance. Covering Anzac, Helles and Suvla Bay including Chocolate Hill.

Life Jacket Drill on SS Franconia (photo)

Officers of Field Ambulance on beach (photo)

Map of Suvla Bay area.

Christmas Day 1915 in a Dug Out (photo)

Reunion in 1997 (photo)

Gallipoli - War Dairy of Royal Marine Brigade.

Map drawings at the time.

Surgeon John Pratt in trench, known as Tank Road (photo)

Sandbag wall across a gully (photo)

Poem by A. P. Herbert. 'Twitting the Turk 1 & 2.

Antwerp - Reginald Godfrey Meyer of Collingwood Battalion. His service there.

Map of Antwerp area.

R.N.D. Personality - The Diary of A.B. James Caldwell. Howe Battalion at Gallipoli and on Western Front.

Photos of family etc.

Gallipoli - Casualties on Helles Memorial (Phi- Por)

Re-Instatement of the R.N.D. Memorial by Captain C. Page.

Rear Cover - Members of Howe Bn. at Blandford Camp.

R.N.D. Issue 24 - March 2003. Pages 2346 - 2443.

Front cover - Antwerp on fire, painting on lid of jewellery box made at Groningen, Holland.

Antwerp - Report by A.A. Gordon at request of 1st Lord of Admiralty dated 12/10/14.

Gallipoli - The diary of James Starkie, sapper No. 2 Field Company R.N.D. from June - December 1915.

Sapper 1440 James Starkie (photo)

R.N.D. engineer training in England at camp and bridge making over a river (photo)

Groups outside hut. One showing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin (photo)

Pumping water from a guarded well (photo)

Teeth being pulled (photo)

Two men on their way to set a board over a comrade's grave (photo)

Men of R.N.D. in trenches (photo)

Drawing of map of trenches.

Drawing of Achi Baba in distance.

Drawing of front line trenches.

Men in front line (photo)

Grave of J. Starkie (photo)

Poem by A.P. Herbert. 'At Dawn.'

Western Front - The Battle of the Ancre.

'Like Kings in a Pageant of Death' by Douglas Jerrold.

Photo of Douglas Jerrold.

Report of Operation at Battle of Ancre, Nov 1916 by Major General Cameron Deane Shute.

Nelson Battalion on march in Somme area. & in camp at Acheux Wood (photo)

Article by Private Sidney Howard of 1st Bn. Honourable Artillery Company detailed for salvage work after battle of Ancre in Nov. 1916.

Photos of Private Sidney Howard & Bernard Freyberg V.C.

Poem by A. P. Herbert 'The Rest Rumour'.

Antwerp - Report of the Court of lnquiry into the circumstances of the internment of the 1st Royal Naval Brigade in Holland. Held at Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham 24/2/1919.

Followed by report by Adjutant General R.M. on enquiry.

Followed by Admiralty report.

Letters by Commodore Henderson on the matter.

R.N.D. Personality - 'A Royal Fusilier with the Royal Naval Division.

Frederick Henry Hayden (photo)

The Railway Locomotive named after the Royal Naval Division.

Photos of Locomotive on track.

Photo of Winston Churchill on the locomotive after naming the engine at Euston in 1937.

About the Royal Naval Division

The Royal Naval Division, or as it became known ‘Winston Churchill’s Little Army', had its foundations at the beginning of the First World War. The army only had six regular divisions bound for France. So, naval reservists which were not required for the fleet could be a useful addition when formed into three Brigades. One of marines, battalions named Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Deal. Two naval brigades, Drake, Hawke, Benbow, Collingwood, Nelson, Howe, Hood and Anson.

With little training, in October 1914 they were first blooded, in the defence of Antwerp. Many men had never fired a rifle and the equipment was third rate. As an example, when marching on the road to Dover many school satchels were collected to hold bullets. The division saw little fighting and when in retreat many were taken prisoner or interned in Holland for the duration of the war. However, they did delay the advancing Germans, which helped in defending the channel ports.

Retrained and reformed the horrors of Gallipoli next awaited the R.N.D. They would take a major part in the campaign, not only at Helles, but some battalions saw action at Anzac and/or Suvla Bay. During the evacuation, the division being part of the last to leave, became known as “The last Ditchers!”

In May 1916 the Division arrived in France to be retrained in army ways but still retaining its naval traditions. As Winston Churchill writes:- “Its officers and men use consistently the Naval parlance on every possible occasion. To leave their camps, in which the White Ensign flew and bells recorded the passage of time, men requested “leave to go ashore;” when they returned they “came aboard,” and when they did not they were reported as “adrift.” Men were “rated” and “disrated,” and for Sergeants and Lance-Corporals they had Petty Officers and Leading Seaman.

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Anchors were stencilled on their limbers and emblazoned on their Company flags, and their regimental badges were in the form of the crests of Admirals whose names their Battalions bore. When ill or wounded they attended “Sick Bay”, field kitchens were the “galley”, the King’s health was drunk sitting in the "ward-room”. Many of the men and some of the Officers requested “leave to grow,” and paraded creditable beards in the faces of a clean-chinned Army.

Three example articles

We have made three articles available as examples of what is available:

The Royal Naval Division at Passchendaele 1917

I escaped from Groningen!

Rupert Brooke - The Hood Battalion of the R.N.D.

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