Category: Naval & Military connections
December 26, 2019|First World War | Knowle | Military connections
A Casualty of the Great War – E. E. Pharoah
ERNEST EDWARD PHAROAH Gunner Ernest Edward Pharoah was one of the fourteen children of George, a local farmer, and his wife Mary. Ernest worked as a cowman on his father’s farm at Whiteley Pastures before becoming an attendant at Knowle Hospital. Enlisting at Brockhurst, Gosport in November 1915, Ernest became a gunner in the Royal…
Find Out More »January 23, 2019|First World War | Local People | Naval connections | Wartime Wickham
The Battle of Coronel – The Wickham Connection
The Battle of Coronel took place on 1st November 1914 off the coast of Central Chile. Britain knew from radio messages that Germany’s East Asiatic squadron, under Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee, was trying to elude the British and Japanese ships as it sailed eastwards from the Caroline Islands across the Pacific. A British Squadron…
Find Out More »January 23, 2019|Naval connections
Admiral Robert Linzee
Robert Linzee was born in Portsmouth in 1739 and died 4th October 1804. He is buried in St Nicholas Churchyard, Wickham. Linzee was twice married and had one son by his first wife. For some time, he lived at Little Park, located to the north of Wickham Village. Promoted to Admiral on the 1st January 1801, Robert Linzee commanded no further ships…
Find Out More »November 4, 2018|First World War | Local People | Naval connections | Wartime Wickham
The Battle of Jutland – The Wickham Connection
The Battle of Jutland, fought between 31 May and 1 June 1916, was the largest naval engagement of the Great War, involving 151 vessels of the Royal Navy Grand Fleet and 99 vessels of the German Navy’s High Seas Fleet. The battle started when Admiral Beatty succeeded in luring the German Grand Fleet into the range of the Royal Navy’s…
Find Out More »August 10, 2016|Naval connections
Admiral Sir Robert Swinburne Lowry, KCB
Robert Swinburne Lowry, son of Lieutenant General Robert William Lowry, was born 4 March 1854. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. As a Midshipman, he was one of three men in HMS Invincible to be awarded the Royal Humane Society Bronze award for saving life off the coast of Gibraltar. Lowry was made a lieutenant in the…
Find Out More »June 27, 2016|Naval connections | Notable people
Captain James Robert Mosse
James Robert Mosse was born in 1745 and died in 1801. He was a military hero who was killed at the Battle of Copenhagen during the Napoleonic Wars and is remembered on a memorial stone in St Nicholas Churchyard, Wickham. James married Ann Grace Kinchin, daughter of the Reverend Stephen Kinchin, of Stoke Charity on 16 March 1780 at Deane, Hampshire. They lived…
Find Out More »June 20, 2016|Naval connections
Admiral Thomas Revell Shivers
Admiral Thomas Revell Shivers was born in 1751 and died in Wickham on 1 June 1827, aged 76. He was buried in St Nicholas churchyard on 8 June 1827. According to the 1839 Tithe Map and the 1841 census, Shivers’ widow, Mary, was a landowner and lived in Havelock house. Mary Shivers was born Mary South….
Find Out More »June 12, 2016|First World War | Local People | Military connections | Wartime Wickham
Gallipoli – The Wickham Connection
The eight-month campaign which took place between 25 April 1915 – 9 January 1916 on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire. It was one of the Allies’ great disasters of the Great War. As the war began, fighting was primarily on two fronts – the Western and Eastern Fronts. In November 1914, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty,…
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