Richard Todd (Actor) and Andrew Todd MC (Doctor)

Richard Todd gets rolled out every D-Day for his part in the operation at Pegasus Bridge and subsequent acting in the film "The Longest Day" with very little information about his family and Irish roots.

The following is a cursory run through some of the immediate family details. 

Richard Todd

Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd was born in Dublin on the 11th June 1919.

A scanned image of his birth entry isn't available but a text version is. 

His mother is listed as Marvilla Todd, nee Agar-Daly; his father is listed as Captain Andrew Palethorpe Todd, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)  with an address listed as "Camp, Phoenix Park".

The birth informant is listed as Emily Elizabeth Lundy with an address at 89 Lower Baggot Street. The address was a Private Nursing Home and Emily Lundy appears to have worked there.

Andrew Todd and Marvilla Agar-Daly married in Belfast on the 21st September 1915. He was listed as Andrew William Palethorpe Todd a T(emporary) Lieutenant in the RAMC, aged 23, with an address in Dublin. She is listed with no occupation, aged 23, with an address in Belfast.

Andrew Todd

Andrew William Palethorpe Todd was born in Dublin on the 6th July 1892. The address listed was 16 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin. His father Andrew Todd (1854- 1920) is listed as a Barrister; his mother is listed as Ellen nee Palethorpe.

1901 Census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Fitzwilliam/Hatch_Street_Lower/1306720/

1911 Census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Donnybrook/Simmonscourt/43616/

18 years old and a student of medicine. Listed with his mother and two servants.  The sister is not present.

His father is in Dungannon on the night of the census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Dungannon/Georges_Street__South_Side/868419/

The father died 16th June 1920. His death is registered as being in Ivanhoe Private Hospital (this was on Lansdowne Road, Dublin). The informant was Henry Kenny with an address of 36 Westland Row. 

Rugby

Prior to WW1, Andrew Todd played Rugby for Ireland, facing Wales once and France twice in the 1913-1914 season.

http://en.espn.co.uk/ireland/rugby/player/2394.html

Medical Studies

He appears to have studied medicine in Trinity College Dublin and to have graduated in 1915.

He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Temporary Lieutentant on the 25th August 1915.

Easter Rising

Not too sure if Andrew Todd was in Dublin at the time of the Easter Rising but he appears to have signed an October 1916 dated document relating to one of the wounded members of the Irish Association of Volunteers Training Corps (IAVTC).

The Todd family lost property in The Metropole Hotel when it was burnt out during the Rising. A number of claims were made by the family to The Property Losses Committee.

World War 1

Todd was posted to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) and to have landed in the theatre of war in October 1915.

He was awarded his Military Cross (MC) for bravery while under fire with the award appearing in the London Gazette in October 1918 with his rank as Temporary Captain. No details of the unit he was with or the location of the action; still to find when he was promoted to Temporary Captain.

In May 1919, he relinquished the rank of Acting Major and became a Temporary Captain having been noted as a Temporary Major from February 1918 (but not for the purposes of pay).

World War 2

Andrew Todd was a Major in the RAMC when he died in March 1942 at the age of just 49.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2929214/andrew-william-palethorpe-todd/

His obituary fills in some of the details of his life between WW1 and WW2.

Dublin Cricketers 1905

A familiar postcard came up on the-salesroom auction site a short while ago titled:

‘AUSTRALIANS V DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ELEVEN (PAST AND PRESENT), JUNE 1905’. MONO POSTALLY UNUSED’

 

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/knights-sporting-auctions/catalogue-id-srkn10044/lot-bf726dff-e882-4907-9a9c-b0430138b3eb

 

I thought my bid of £20 was way too much. Hard to believe that the winning bid was £80 for a postcard.

 

The character I recognised immediately by sight was F H Browning (President of the Irish Rugby Football Union and commander of the IRFU Volunteer Training Corps when shot on the first day of the Easter Rising).

 

The second character recognised by initial/surname was R M Gwynn who I had researched a good few years ago re his role in helping set up the Irish Citizen Army following the Lockout of 1913.

 

The offices of the photographer and the printer both suffered damage during the Easter Rising.

 

The other names were not familiar so a bit of cursory research was warranted to see who the above two were mixing with.

 

P A Meldon

Philip Albert Meldon

Born 18^th December 1874, Dublin

Died 8^th April 1942, London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meldon

Meldon appears to have been in the British Army at the time of the photo, having served during the 2^nd Anglo Boer War.

In the 1911 census, he is recorded as a visitor to Colonel Duncan Carter, Royal Artillery, in Sunningdale, Berkshire.

Landed in France in November 1914 with the Royal Field Artillery. Served through WW1 and awarded a DSO.

 

H H Corley

Henry Hagarty Corley

Born 20^th November 1878 at 30 Lower Baggot street, Dublin.

Died 30th January 1936 in London, England

His father, Anthony Hagarty Corley, appears to have been a surgeon. His mother was Eleanor nee Purdon

Corley’s brother Anthony was killed in Gallipoli serving with the Australian forces on the 17^th September 1915.

https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/zc77ss20m

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/606287/anthony-purden-hegarty-corley/

 

E Ensor

Ernest Ensor

Born 17^th December 1870 in Cheltenham, England.

Died 13^th August 1929 in Cork, Ireland

Listed in Tipperary as a Professor in the 1901 census for Ireland

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tipperary/Tipperary_Town/Collegeland/1719898/

Listed as Erson in the 1911 census in Cork in the 1911 census of Ireland, a School Inspector

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Cork_No__6_Urban/Morrisons_Quay/394190/

 

A L Leeper

Arthur Lindsay Leeper

Born 19^th May 1883, Dublin.

Died 16^th February 1942, Huddersfield, England

Served with the YMCA during WW1 initially and then as a Chaplain in the British Army.

Settled in Huddersfield and wrote “A History of Huddersfield Parish Church”

 

J T Gwynn

John Tudor Gwynn

Born 13^th November 1881 in Ramelton, Co Donegal, Ireland

Died 17^th May 1956 in Bangor, Co Down, Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tudor_Gwynn

Worked in the Indian Civil Service, as a journalist and then as the headmaster of a school in Dublin.

 

S D Lambert

Septimus Drummond Lambert

Born 3^rd August 1876 in Dublin, Ireland

Died 21^st April 1959 in Dublin, Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sep_Lambert

He is listed in the 1901 census of Ireland as a Law Student and living with his parents etc

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Rathmines/Rathmines_Road/1297507/

In the 1911 census he is in Rathmines with his wife and family and listed as a solicitor

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rathmines___Rathgar_West/Rathgar_Road/54483/

During King Edward VII’s visit to Dublin in 1903, Lambert’s father was called upon to do a post mortem on the King’s dog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond_Lambert

 

C R Faussett

Charles Reginald Fausset

Born 6^th January 1880 in Waterford, Ireland

Died 3^rd May 1915 in Belgium

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fausset-71

listed as Reginald in the 1901 census of Ireland, living in Dublin with the family

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Donnybrook/Simmonscourt/1284391/

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1612076/charles-reginald-fausset/

 

Rev T A Harvey

Thomas Arnold Harvey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Harvey

Born 17^th April 1878, Dublin

Died 25^th December 1966, Dublin. Buried in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.

Reputed to have caught and bowled W G Grace for a duck.

He is listed as a student in Trinity College, Dublin in the 1901 census (R M Gwynn also listed)

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Trinity/Trinity_College/1312073/

He was still in Dublin in 1906 as the Captain of the 10^th Company of the Boy’s Brigade, while curate at St Stephen’s in Mount Street, Dublin (aka The Pepper Canister)

He appears to have been in Sligo in 1908 based on a letter from Jack Butler Yeats

https://www.morganodriscoll.com/art/jack-butler-yeats-illustrated-letter-from-jack-butler-yeats-to-thomas-arnold-harvey-10th-october-c1908/41578

He is in Sligo for the 1911 census of Ireland

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Lissadill_East/Ballinfull/753518/

A photograph of him in his role as Anglican Bishop of Cashel and Waterford is in the National Portrait Gallery collection

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw220473/Thomas-Arnold-Harvey

Harvey’s brother Frederick appears to have been a sportsman and won a Victoria Cross while serving with the Canadians in WW1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Maurice_Watson_Harvey

By coincidence, I was at a showing of Ashley Morrison's documentary "Mark Our Place" re the 3 Rugby VCs at Wootton Bassett Rugby Club earlier this year and did not make the connection until reviewing the Wikipedia page.

 

J E Lynch

Joseph Edward Lynch

Born 26^th April 1880 in Monkstown

Died 25^th September 1915 in France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lynch_(cricketer)

http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/conor2.htm

 Killed while serving as a Captain in the 10^th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/734560/joseph-edward-lynch/

Private Thomas Highgate

8th September 1914 saw the execution of Private Thomas James Highgate of 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

Highgate was the first of over 300 members of the British Army who would be executed by the British Army during the course of World War 1 (WW1).

Stationed in Richmond Barracks, Dublin at the outbreak of WW1, 19year old Highgate and his comrades landed in France on 15th August 1914 and took part in the Battle of Mons.

He was arrested for desertion on the 6th September 1914, tried by Field General Court Martial without a defending officer or witnesses, found guilty and executed early on the 8th September 1914.

While the British Army did bury him, the grave was subsequently lost.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/879050/highgate,-thomas-james/

Reginald Woodman - Ulster Cyclist Corps

Interested in the Ulster Cyclist Corps noted against Reginald Woodman that appears on a memorial on another bloggers page. I was aware of the UVF having cyclists (and motor cyclists) but not of an Ulster Cyclist Corps.

21 year old Reginald Woodman is listed on the CWGC website as having been killed in 1917 with the Royal Irish Rifles.

Soldiers Died in the Great War shows he was in the Army Cyclist Corps prior to the Royal Irish Rifles

Name:	Reginald Woodman
Birth Place:	Dublin
Death Date:	8 Aug 1917
Death Place:	France and Flanders
Enlistment Place:	Dublin
Rank:	Rifleman
Regiment:	Royal Irish Rifles
Battalion:	9th Battalion
Regimental Number:	9263
Type of Casualty:	Killed in action
Theatre of War:	Western European Theatre
Comments:	Formerly 6896, A. Cyc. Corps.

There is a service record on Ancestry for 6896 Reginald Woodman which has him as a member of the Army Cyclist Corps (36th Division). He enlisted on the 29th April 1915 in Dublin aged 19. Employed as a Clerk and living at 15 Lindsay Road, Glasnevin, Dublin. His father is listed as William George Woodman of the same address with mother (name difficult to read), 3 brothers (Albert George, 27, William James Alexander 25, Clifford 20) and a sister (Kathleen Margaret).

He was transferred to the 15th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles on the 20/5/1916 and then to the 9th Battalion on the 27th June 1916.

He appears on the War Memorials for :

Wesley College

St George's Church

With his 3 brothers. he is on the Roll of Honour for St Thomas's Church and for St George's Church.


The father William George Woodman (1868-1936) appears to be from Burnham on Sea in Somerset originally. The mother Askin Hutcheon Woodman (1868-1950), nee Grimwood,  appears to have been from Scotland but died in Devon.

Clifford appears to have joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in September 1914 as 13860. Landed with the 7th Battalion at Suvla on the 7th August 1915. Suffered Malaria during his time in the Army. Discharged to the reserve (Z Class).

William James Alexander appears to have joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers as 14144. No service record to confirm battalion but he landed in Gallipoli on the same date as Clifford. Commissioned as a 2nd Lt in the Labour Corps, 28th May 1918.  Medal card gives address as Ivanhoe, Lindsay Road, Glasnevin, Dublin. Appears in the London Gazette in 1922 still as a 2nd Lt

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32574/supplement/354/data.pdf

Albert George Woodman appears in the 1907 London Gazette as a messenger boy for the GPO

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/11974/page/1029/data.pdf

Currently not sure about who he served with during the Great War.

1911 census for the Woodman family
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Glasnevin/Lindsay_Road/16430/

1901 census for the Woodman family
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Glasnevin/Hollybank_Road/1273935/


Marriage record for William Woodman and Aksin Grimwood

Baptism record for Reginald

Baptism record for Clifford

Baptism record for William

Baptism record for Albert

Baptism record for Kathleen

High School, Dublin

A nice blog from Michelle Burrowes re research about the staff and students of The High School, Dublin who took part in WW1

The High School Dublin War Stories

ANZAC Irish

A new resource now online re Irish serving with the ANZAC forces during WW1

ANZAC Irish Database

Online Records

2 new sets of online records :


RAF Museum RFC casualty cards and 1st April 1918 RAF Muster Roll :

http://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/page/26565-home


Red Cross Prisoner of War Records

http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/

I've had a go with the latter and found it a bit difficult to use.

The Irish Home Front

An interesting article/thesis re the Irish Home Front during WW1

http://eprints.nuim.ie/5060/1/Clare_O'Neill_20140620131550.pdf

The Ulster Covenant - Dublin signatures 2

Given that the Dublin parliamentary division has some addresses outside the Dublin area, I tried "Dublin" in the address field of the PRONI Covenant database and up popped just under 200 entries. A number of these are Dublin addresses. Still a very small number though.

Next task is to put together a list from the 200 that are Dublin addresses and cross check these against the 1901 and 1911 census websites.

A couple of matches

William Clement McKee

Thomas John Curtis

Thomas D Barnett

Arthur Henry Bates (put as W Bates on the database but writing is difficult to work out - looks like A H)

Robert James Black

Robert Henry Calvert

David M Carson

William Clarke

David James Colter


Some that do seem to have gone into the armed forces during WW1 are :

R H Plews (Robert Henry Cunningham Plews)
Served with the Army Service Corps.
Mentioned in Despatches.
Reached rank of Major.

Otto Hamilton Jones
Born in Dublin 20th July 1889
Working in London in the 1911 census as a Warehouseman
Commissioned as 2nd Lt on 2nd September 1916 having been a Cadet (not sure at which unit yet)
His medal index card shows he originally enlisted as a Private, number 19/360, in the 19th Battalion the Royal Irish Rifles.
Died in France 22nd/23rd November 1917 with the 15th Battalion the Royal Irish Rifles

Alec Haines
Son of a Guinness Brewery Manager
Killed in 1915 whilst serving as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

Hugh Victor Moore
Killed in 1918

Harry Jeffrey
From Belfast, living in Rathgar, Dublin. Served as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers. Enlisted January 1915.

Claude Braddell
Commissioned into the Royal Irish Rifles in December 1915.
Medal index card shows Royal Ulster Rifles.

He worked for the Northern Bank and apparently had the surname Burbridge originally.

Alfred Caffrey
Born in Dublin 16th March 1871. Father Edward Caffrey; mother Mary Wilkin. Alfred Caffrey joined the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1888 and served through to 1901, number 2695. Then in the Royal Garrison Regiment, number 4366.  Appears to have re-enlisted during WW1 as 6/303, Sgt Alfred Caffrey. Discharged October 1916 due to sickness.


Two Roman Catholic signatories are :

Alphonsus Jeannette and William Lawrence Vize.

William Vize had joined the Royal Engineers in 1902; rejoined the Royal Engineers during WW1.

Curragh 1914

Paul O'Brien has launched a book re events at the Curragh in 1914 called A Question of Duty. More information from Paul's Facebook page :

A Question of Duty

or the Dublin 1916 Facebook page :

Dublin 1916

RTE have an article and radio interview (link on the page to YouTube) :

RTE article

WW1 Ireland on the BBC

The BBC has put together a series of articles/audio tracks re Ireland and WW1. Particulary interested in the Guinness episode though it doesn't really go into enough detail.

Programmes available at :

BBC World War One at Home

U-Boat Alley

A nice article here re U-Boats in the Irish Sea, lightships and some controversial sinkings.

Flanders Flotilla and U-Boat Alley

Of interest are the mine laying maps for Arklow, Dublin and Liverpool coastlines. These are from 1917 when it was becoming harder for U-Boats to operate.

It is strange that no U-Boat operated in this area during the Easter Rising given that re-inforcements from England would have to travel by sea (Liverpool to Kingstown in the case of the Sherwood Foresters for example).

U-Boat SM U-20

The U-20 appears to have been able to set out to sea shortly after the U-19 and to have sunk 6 ships from 30th April 1916:

30th April 1916 : Bakio (no information re casualties)

1st May 1916 : Bernadette (no information re casualties)

2nd May 1916 : Ruabon 0 casualties

3rd May 1916 :  Marie Molinos 0 casualties

6th May 1916 : Galgate 0 casualties

8th May 1916 : Cymric  5 casualties

U-Boat SM U-19

The U-19 was the u-boat that took Sir Roger Casement, Robert Monteith and Daniel Bailey from Germany to Ireland in 1916.

The task was originally given to U-20 but this vessel developed a fault shortly after starting out and had to return to port.

Having dropped Casement, Monteith and Bailey in Ireland, U-19 ventured towards the Bay of Biscay sinking 6 ships before returning to port :

21st April 1916  : Feliciana 0 casualties

22nd April 1916 :  Jozsef Agost Foherzeg 0 casualties

22nd April 1916 : Ross 0 casualties

23rd April 1916 : Parisiana 0 casualties

23rd April 1916 : Ribston 0 casualties

25th April 1916 : Carmanian 2 casualties (some accounts say 3)

New York Times

The King of Norway awards a silver cup to Father Tom Jones for leading the rescue of some of the Carmanian sailors off the coast of Kerry. Money and scrolls awarded to 3 farmers who aided in the rescue. All 4 receive awards from the Carnegie Trust.

The U-45 was operating nearby and sank 4 ships in the period to 2nd May 1916

27th April 1916 : Industry 0 casualties

30th April 1916 : Vinifreda 0 casualties

2nd May 1916 :  Le Pilier 0 casualties

2nd May 1916 :  Maud 0 casualties


The U-67 operated in the area before U-19 and U-45 sinking 3 ships :

16th April 1916 :  Cardonia 0 casualties

20th April 1916 :  Whitgift  32 dead, 1 survivor

22nd April 1916 : Chanaral 0 casualties


The sinking of the Cairngowan is mentioned in Danger Zone by E Keble Chatterton in a chapter on the Easter Rising. This was sunk by U-69 which appears to have been operating in the area off Kerry and to have sunk 8 ships in the period 15th to 20th April 1916.

Sherwood Foresters Diary

A copy of the Sherwood Foresters diary covering their formation, involvement in the Easter Rising/Ireland and transfer to France, can be found at :


Sherwood Foresters Diary

The Belgian Coast Barrage

At 5am on the 24th April 1916, work began on the Belgian Coast Barrage, a scheme devised by Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, commander of the Dover Patrol,  to lay mines and mine nets near the Belgian coast. The aim of the barrage was to interrupt the work of the German naval forces at Zeebrugge etc - German U-Boats based here were causing problems and the surface vessels were a constant threat.

A number of merchant ships were converted to minelayers (Orvieto, Paris, Princess Margaret and Biarritz) supported by small trawlers (Welbeck, Carmania, Osta, Shackleton, Ostrich and Russell) and drifters. About 1421 mines were laid.

On the 25th April, UB13 was caught in one of the first nets and destroyed. It should have been helping the German naval ships involved in the raid on Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth.

The German ships heading to Lowestoft were met in the early hours of the 25th April 1916 by ships from the Harwich Force commanded by Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt. The Harwich Force was weaker than it should have been - 12 destroyers had been taken away to defend the ships laying mines for the Belgian Coastal Barrage.

The Harwich Force ships HMS Conquest and HMS Penelope suffered damage and casualties in the above encounter.

There were a number of incidents during the laying of the barrage :

- the drifter Clover Bank hit one of the newly laid British mines on the 24th April during the barrage laying operation. 18 dead.

- the drifter Au Fait was shelled and captured. Her crew was taken prisoner and the boat sunk.

- Harwich Force destroyers Milne, Medea, Melpomene and Murray were involved in a fight with 3 German destroyers from Zeebrugge on the 24th April 1916 while they were defending the minelayers and drifters. All four ships suffered damage; Medea lost 2 killed in action and 1 who later died of wounds.

The Belgian Coast Barrage was completed 26th May 1916.

On the 27th May 1916, u-boat UC-3, a mine laying u-boat, was destroyed by a mine off the coast near Zeebrugge. Her 18 crew all died. She had destroyed one ship off the Suffolk coast before her destruction, The Golcanda was destroyed on the 3rd June 1916 by a mine newly laid by UC-3.

In September 1916, work began on the Cross Channel Barrage which would work in a similar manner to the Belgian Coast Barrage.


April 24th 1916 was also the date that German u-boats were ordered to cease unrestricted warfare against merchant ships, a result of pressure from the still neutral USA.

Mrs Frances Gaze

73year old Frances (Fanny) Gaze apparently died of fright on 24/25th April 1916, caused by a German Zeppelin dropping it's bomb load in North Norfolk after an unsuccessful attempt to find it's target under a thick blanket of fog.

Western Front Association article re Frances Gaze

Submarine E22

Harwich based submarine E22 was sunk by German U-Boat UB18 on the morning of 25th April 1916 off the Suffolk coast.

31 crew appeared to have died as a result of the torpedo fired by UB18. 2 crew were picked up by UB18 (Frederick Buckingham and William Harrod) and taken to Zeebrugge as Prisoners of War.

What makes E22 unusual is that it was a submarine fitted with 2 Sopwith Schneider aircraft for use intercepting Zeppelins. E22 had been in a group of 4 submarines travelling on the surface when attacked by UB18.


The following day, UB18 captured and scuttled the Alfred off the coast of Lowestoft. No casualties were inflicted.

UB18 was herself sunk in December 1917.

HMY Goissa - HMS Invincible

After the German Navy withdrew after the bombardment of Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth, ships of the Royal Navy headed home.

HMY Goissa collided with HMS Invincible on the way back to port.

Goissa appears to have suffered 4 dead (William Grimble, Donald McLeod, James Stewart and William Warne) while Invincible suffered 1 death (John Todd)

German Navy - Easter Rising

While the role of the Castro/Libau (posing as the Aud) and u-boat SM U-19 are generally known about in the context of the Easter Rising, few seem to know about the supporting German Navy/Zeppelin activities and deaths.

Elements of the German Navy (Kaiserliche) and 8 Zeppelins left port on the 24th April 1916. A large group headed towards Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth to bombard the towns (and entice elements of the Royal Navy into battle).

During this operation, the German battleship Seydlitz struck a mine and suffered casualties. Numbers cited are 12 German sailors dead.

The Royal Navy vessel HMS Conquest suffered 25 dead and 13 wounded.  The Horus and Alfred were captured by German vessels with the Alfred being scuttled on the 25th April 1916.

In addition, the submarine UB13 of the Flanders Flotilla departed Zeebrugge on the 24th April 1916 as part of the operation. It struck a mine soon after leaving Zeebrugge and all 17 crew were killed.

The British submarine E22 was also sunk along with 2 aircraft it was testing as part of an anti-Zeppelin experiment. 31 crew were killed; 2 of the crew were captured and taken aboard u-boat UB18.

For a list of Royal Navy casualties from this operation go to :

https://johnny-doyle.blogspot.com/2016/03/royal-navy-casualties-easter-1916.html

The interesting1927 Royal Navy Staff Monograph Vol XVI re The Lowestoft Raid and its link to the Easter Rising used to be available at the link below but sadly the link is now broken. If I come across another copy I will update the link,

http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Naval-Staff-Monographs-Vol.XVI_opt.pdf




SMS Seydlitz dead :

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2016/kaiserl-marine-sm-grosser-kreuzer-seydlitz-wk1.html

 

UB13 dead :