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Identifier: cu31924028018574 (find matches)
Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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f wounds, 1officer and 4 men were wounded, and 2 officers and25 men died of disease. As in Ladysmith so withBullers relieving force, the Navy and their heavyguns were a tower of strength, and figured inevery action from Colenso onwards. To thereUeving force the Royal Navy contributed 39officers and 403 men, and this contingent waslater augmented by 2 officers and 50 men of theNatal Naval Volunteers, and the artillery theywere able to bring into action comprised one6-inch and two 47-iiich on travelling carriages,two 4•7-inch on platform mountings, one 4*7-inchon a railway truck, and 18 long 12-pounders ontravelling carriages. The following figures affordstriking proof of the splendid work done by thatportion of the Royal Navy that came actually intothe first fighting line during the Boer War. Inall, 113 officers (including those of warrant rank)were landed with Naval Brigades, and of these noless than 44 were decorated or promoted for their H.M. BATTLESHIPS KING EDWARD VII. AND QUEEN
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NAVY OF STEAM AND STEEL 283 services. Six received the Companionship of theBath; 8 the Distinguished Service Order; 6 theConspicuous Service Cross; 20 officers received astep in rank, and 4 were noted for early promotion.Of the 33 Middies who served with the NavalBrigades, the majority were all recommended forearly promotion on qualifying for the rank oflieutenant. In addition, there was, of course, thesplendid work done at the bases, notably byCaptain Percy Scott, who, in addition to designingthe gun-carriages that enabled the Navy to taketheir heavy guns into the field, filled, fi-om thebeginning of November 1899 to the end of March1900, the very responsible and onerous post ofcommandant of Durban. When, in the early part of 1900, the anti-foreignagitation in China came to a head, it was to thefleets of the powers that the legations at Pekin andall Europeans in China looked for aid and succour;and in affording them this aid and eventuallysaving them, the greatest Navy in the worldna

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