HMS Audacious sinking - courtesy Maritime Quest
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Books from Naval-History.Net
ROYAL NAVY ROLL of HONOUR, WORLD WAR 1, Part 1 - by Name by Don Kindell. Includes Dominion Navies, Royal Navy Division, Royal Marines; taken from Admiralty Death Ledgers, Admiralty Communiqués, other Official sources. Click for Book/PDF download
ROYAL NAVY ROLL of HONOUR, WORLD WAR 1, Part 2 - by Date and Ship/Unit by Don Kindell. Part 1 is, in effect, the index to Part 2, which identifies ships sunk and damaged, land battles, how killed or died etc Click for Book/PDF download
ROYAL NAVY ROLL of HONOUR, Between the Wars 1918-1939 - by Name, by Date/Ship by Don Kindell. All volumes with a Foreword by Capt Christopher Page RN Rtd, Head, Naval Historical Branch, MOD
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Review by Navy News, September 2009 - excerpts
Of the already lengthy list of essential reference works charting the long, proud history of the Royal Navy, now add the first volumes of a monumental work listing casualties from 1914 to the present. Don Kindell's Royal Navy Roll of Honour intends to list, for the first time, every sailor or Royal Marine who died while in the Senior Service - in action, in accidents, as a result of illness. The author is a former US Navy sailor and police officer with a passion for the RN over four decades.
He's researched the details of 120,000 individuals whose records have been scattered around the archives - Kew, Whitehall, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the Naval Historical Branch among others. The latter in particular has been heavily involved in what its head, Capt Christopher Page calls an "astonishing corpus of work".
And how right he is, Royal Navy Roll of Honour isn't a book you read as such, but it is one, serious naval, social and family historians will no doubt turn to time and again. The first three volumes (of a projected six to eight) deal with casualties of WW1 (two volumes, one by name and the other by date/ship) and the Inter-War period (by name and by date/ship).We've only caught sight of the 'Between the Wars' volume, but it give an excellent idea of the quality of the research and the incredible usefulness of Mr Kindell's labour of love.
BATTLE ATLAS OF THE FALKLANDS WAR 1982, by Land, Sea and Air by Gordon Smith. Click for Book/PDF download and
Latest review, in the International Journal of Naval History
Dedications World War 1 at Sea.Net is dedicated to my grandfather, Chief Yeoman of Signals George Smith DSM. He joined the Royal Navy in 1904, and was sunk twice in World War 1 - destroyer HMS Medusa and cruiser HMS Cassandra.
Post-war, he served with the North Russian Expeditionary Force 1919, cruised the Baltic in 1921, served on HMS Curlew on the America & West Indies Station 1922-25 and HMS Durban on the China Station in 1926-28. He joined the Royal Naval Shore Signal Service in 1928 and served as a Chief Officer through World War 2 and on to 1948.
He was an early and avid photographer, and perhaps because of his experiences as a Signalman, a natural communicator. A lovely man, I am proud to make all his work available on the Internet. He would have appreciated and understood the value of the Web.
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