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Subject: Officers Of The Royal Marines Battalion 1879 Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:51 pm
Officers who served in the Battalion of Royal Marines sent to South Africa for special service in the Zulu War, 1879:
MARINE BATTALION (Transported on HMS Jumna)
Royal Marine Light Infantry
Plymouth
Lieutenant Colonel Robert William Bland Hunt, Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Geofrey Mairis, Second in Command Captain Gerald Altham Heseltine Captain Henry Ainslie Alfred Turner Lieutenant Frederick Morton Eden Lieutenant Robert Brooke Kirchhoffer, Quartermaster Lieutenant John Frederick Luxmoore, Adjutant Lieutenant Henry Byron Woods Lieutenant Charles George Parlby Ward Lieutenant Grey Skipworth Lieutenant Edwin Loftus McCausland Lieutenant Richard James Parkinson Lieutenant Francis Garnett Atkinson Lieutenant Arthur Hatton
Portsmouth
Lieutenant Colonel James Stirling Mould Major Charles Bulkeley Nurse Major Albert Henry Ozzard Captain Henry Fuller Captain William Taylor Miller, Paymaster Captain Edward Nicoll William Holbrook Captain Francis Mordaunt Shaird Captain Robert Alexander Douglas Ramsay Lieutenant Robert Walker Heathcote Lieutenant John Charles Wardell Lieutenant Charles Dashwood Fowler Lieutenant Charles Wellesley Parish 3 Staff Sergeants 10 Sergeants 204 rank and file
Chatham
Major Frederick Ley, Captain George Stevens Nash Captain John Alfred Sweny Captain Osborn Tracy Lieutenant John Richmond Jekyll Lieutenant Howard Stanley Thompson Lieutenant Walter Quentin Lieutenant George Arthur Gott Lieutenant Herbert Cecil Money Lieutenant Charles Howard Edge 2 Colour Sergeants 8 Sergeants 201 rank and file
Royal Marine Artillery Eastney
Major Henry Brasnell Tuson Captain Samuel Hamilton Bunce Northcote Captain Vivian Dalton Mathias Lieutenant Augustus Simeon LeQuesne Lieutenant Robert Homfray Alexander Lieutenant George Dalhousie Raitt Lieutenant William Charles Nicholls, Adjutant and Paymaster Lieutenant Leonard Thales Pease More than 200 Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and men
None of the above arrived in time to participate in the Zulu War and therefore are not entitled to the medal with or without clasp.
Petty Officer Tom
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Posts : 2746 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
Subject: Re: Officers Of The Royal Marines Battalion 1879 Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:26 pm
Hi Petty Officer Tom
Many thanks for posting the above list. This will help others as we do find thier name claiming that they took part in the Zulu War of 1879.
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Subject: Re: Officers Of The Royal Marines Battalion 1879 Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:22 pm
The following Naval Officers were attached to the Battalion of Royal Marines:
Surgeon Henry Thompson Cox Fleet Surgeon Timotheus John Haran Surgeon George Bell Murray Chaplain/Naval Instructor William Edmund Smith
All of these would have been "seconded" to HMS Boadicea and carried on logs had they made it to Natal.
As with the Marines, none of these men were entitled to the medal for the Zulu War.
Petty Officer Tom
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Posts : 2671 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: Officers Of The Royal Marines Battalion 1879 Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:46 pm
Could not resist this extract from the Letter Book of the Royal Marines Battalion. It is from the Commanding Officer Lt Col R W Bland Hunt to Captain Parsons the Commander of HMS Jumna at Simonstown. The content speaks for itself but I suggest he had his priorities well sorted! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Steve Reinstadtler
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Posts : 9833 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 62 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Officers Of The Royal Marines Btn 1879 Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:10 pm
Steve ...I like the cut of their Jib ! 90th
John Young
Posts : 1688 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 62 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Officers Of The Royal Marines Battalion 1879 Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:10 am
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