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In memory of shipmates

'During the blockage of Delagoa Bay by HMS Thetis, three deaths occurred on board. A cross was made by the articifers of the shop of teak, coppered to protect it from ants , and was erected in the graveyard at Lourenco Marques over the graves of two of the men, the first man who dies having been buried at sea.



Source: The Graphic 2 June 1900

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QSA (0) (H. E. Green, Car: Cr: HMS Thetis);
BWM and VM (341787 H. E. Green. Shpt. 1 R.N.);
Royal Navy LS&GC GV, 1st issue (341787. H. E. Green, Shpt. 1Cl. HMS Minerva.)

Herbert Gdward Green was born at Purbrook, Hampshire, on 21 January 1877, and was a carpenter by trade when he joined the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew on 22 November 1897. He served aboard HMS Thetis from February 1898 to June 1901, including service in South Africa during the Boer War.

He advanced to Leading Carpenter’s Crew on 1 December 1901; Shipwright, 14 January 1904; Leading Shipwright, 1 January 1906; Shipwright 2nd Class, 1 December 1912; Shipwright 1st Class, 1 January 1913.

He served during the Great War aboard the cruiser Minerva which took part in the Gallipoli campaign in support of the landings at Cape Helles and Suvla Bay, and was afterwards deployed on the China Station in 1916, and then to the Indian Ocean and Red Sea in 1917.

Green received his LS&GC medal aboard Minerva in February 1915 and left the ship on 31 December 1917.

He was Shore Demobilised on 18 December 1919.

Here is a photograph of HMS Thetis

On the 17th of October 1899, the German steamship Kaiser, so as not to be caught in the Red Sea by the Royal Navy, disembarked four thousand cases of ammunition at Port Said, after being chased through the Mediterranean by HMS Thetis, a second-class Cruiser. The ammunition had been shipped from Hamburg and amongst its passengers were several German officers bound for the Transvaal. Creswicke.

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (0) (A. Marriage. A.B., H.M.S. Thetis.);
1914-15 Star (194339, A. Marriage, L.S., R.N.);
British War and Victory Medals (194339 A. Marriage. P.O. R.N.);
Royal Navy LS&GC GV 2nd issue, fixed suspension (194339 A. Marriage, C.P.O. H.M.S. Orion.)

Austin Marriage was born in Plaistow, Essex, on 20 September 1881, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 5 July 1897. He served in H.M.S. Thetis from 1 July 1899, being advanced Able Seaman in that ship on 1 January 1901, and was promoted Leading Seaman on 9 March 1905. He served during the Great War in HMS Vindictive from the outbreak of War until 30 June 1916, and was advanced Petty Officer in HMS Furious on 1 November 1918, and Chief Petty Officer in the same ship on 5 March 1919. Serving in HMS. Orion from 1 October 1920, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 19 May 1921, and was shore pensioned on 25 September 1921.