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| | WORLD WAR 1 at SEA ROYAL NAVY DESPATCHES,
GALLANTRY AWARDS and HONOURS -
a new series from the London Gazette - August 1914 to December 1920 includes Army Despatches involving Royal Navy forces, and Ships receiving Naval Salvage & Prize Bounty Money by Gordon Smith, Naval-History.Net |
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| HM King George V, in whose name all honours and gallantry awards were granted
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(1) My thanks to the London Gazette for placing all this information in the public domain
(2) All Naval and Military Despatches are listed in the Main Contents even though some of the Military ones are not included in these pages, or only in part
(3) Merchant Navy
gallantry awards are included, but the following naval-related matters
are EXCLUDED: Board of Admiralty members, ADC appointments, pay and
conditions, promotions and appointments, Knighthoods (unless part of
other awards), merchant ship captures and prize courts, contraband lists
and regulations.
(4) Link to London Gazette World War 1 editions
(5) Link to
Royal Navy casualty lists
(6) Finally, any transcription errors are mine, for which my apologies. Please feel free to email them to Gordon Smith
| | | | LIST OF MAIN CONTENTS click headings/titles to go direct to pages - other than those Army Despatches which are (not included) | | | | | London Gazette edition | Naval & Army Despatches, Naval Gallantry Awards & Honours
Small lists of honours and gallantry awards, and Naval Salvage and Prize Bounty lists are not included in these Contents | | | | | | 1914 | | | August - December | |
28897 |
Western Front Operations, Army,
dated 7 September 1914
(excerpt) | |
28942 |
Western Front Operations, Army,
dated 17 September 1914 (not included) | |
28948 |
Battle of Heligoland Bight, dated 21 October 1914 | | |
Services performed by Submarines since the commencement of hostilities | |
28989 |
Western Front Operations, Army, dated 20th November 1914 (not included) | |
28996 |
Operations around Antwerp, dated 2 November 1914 | |
29025 |
Sinking of German cruiser
"Emden",
dated 15 November 1914 | | |
RNAS attack on airship sheds and factory at Friedrichshafen | | | | | | 1915 | | | January - March | |
29069 |
Western Front Operations, Army, dated 2nd February 1915 (not included) | |
29072 |
Western Front - Naval Mention, dated 14 January 1915 | |
29076 |
East Coast Minesweeping Operations, dated 19 February 1915 | | |
Naval Seaplane Operations in Heligoland Bight | |
29087 |
Battle of the Falklands, 19 December 1914 | |
29088 |
Battle of the Dogger Bank, dated 2 February 1915 | | | | | | April - June 1915 | |
29123 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - SMS Goeben, German East Africa, Mesopotamia etc | |
29126 |
Belgian Coast Operations, dated 11 November 1914 | |
29128 |
Western Front Operations, Army, dated
5th April 1915 (not included) | |
29200 |
Western Front - Naval Mentions, dated 31 May 1915 | |
29211 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Syrian coast, Smyrna, Dardanelles etc | | | | | | July - September 1915 |
29217 |
Gallipoli Campaign - Landings, Army, dated 20th May 1915 | |
29225 |
Western Front Operations, Army, dated 15th June 1915 (not included) | |
29251 |
Gallipoli Campaign – RN Division Mentions,
dated 12 June 1915 | |
29255 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Patrol Cruisers, Belgian coast | |
29256 |
Western Front - Naval Mentions,
dated 7 August 1915 | |
29264 |
Gallipoli
Campaign - Landings, dated 1 July 1915 | |
29292 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Submarines, Dardanelles, Mesopotamia etc | |
29303 |
Gallipoli
Campaign, Army, dated
26th August 1915 | | | | | | October - December 1915 | |
29312 |
(Prewar) Naval General Service Medal Award for Persian Gulf Operations, 1909 -1914 | |
29347 |
Western Front Operations,
Army, dated 15th October 1915
(not included) | |
29354 |
Gallipoli Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 22 September 1915 | |
29374 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Persian Gulf, Belgian Front, Sea of Marmora etc | |
29395 |
Destruction of German cruiser
“Königsberg”, dated 15 July 1915 | |
29422 |
Western Front - Naval Mentions, dated 30 November 1915 | |
29423 |
Naval Honours and Gallantry Awards - New Year's Honours List, Cameroons, RNAS etc | | | | | | 1916 | | | January - March | |
29429 |
Gallipoli
Campaign, Army, dated 11 December 1915 | |
29436 |
Belgian Coast Operations, dated 3 December 1915 | |
29446 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Mesopotamia and Serbia | |
29455 |
Gallipoli Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 11 December 1915 | |
29487 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Baltic, Lake Nyassa, Belgian coast etc | |
29507 |
Gallipoli Campaign - Naval Mentions | |
29514 |
Indian Army Action,
Tochi Valley, Army, dated 1 October 1915 (not included) | |
29530 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Gallipoli and Patrol cruisers | | | | | | April - June 1916 | |
29536 |
Mesopotamian Campaign, dated 1 January 1916 | |
29541 |
Gallipoli
Campaign - Evacuation, and
Salonika, Army, dated 17 January 1916 | |
29576 |
Mesopotamian
Campaign, Army, dated 17 January 1916 | |
29581 |
Gallipoli Campaign and Evacuation - Naval Awards | |
29599 |
Western Front Operations, Army Despatch, dated 19 May 1916
(excerpt) | |
29601 |
Tsingtau
Campaign, Army Despatches, first dated 9 October 1914 | |
29603 |
Naval Gallantry Awards -
Dardanelles, Lake Tanganyika, Baltic etc | |
29604 |
Cameroons Campaign, Army, dated 1st March 1916 (first part ) | |
29623 |
Western Front - Naval Mentions, dated 30 April 1916 | |
29630 |
East African
Campaign, Army, dated 30 April 1916
(excerpt) | |
29632 |
Egyptian Campaign, Army, 16 February 1915 to 9 April 1916, including Defence of Suez Canal and Western Desert Operations | |
29635 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Patrol Cruisers, HMS Alcantara, RNAS, etc | |
29648 |
East African Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 8 May 1916 | | | | | |
July - September 1916
Main Battle of
Jutland Despatches on separate page | |
29652 |
Indian Empire Operations, Army, dated 9 March 1916, including Red Sea and Madras
(excerpts) | |
29654 |
Action in the North Sea - Battle of Jutland, dated 24 June 1916
(separate page) | |
29664 |
Gallipoli Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 12 July 1916 | |
29665 |
Mesopotamian Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 13 July 1916 | |
29668 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Auxiliary Patrol, Serbian Evacuation, East Africa etc | |
29676 |
Irish Easter Rising, Army, dated 29 May 1916 | |
29680 |
Dover Patrol Operations, dated 29 May 1916 | |
29685 |
Bushire Operations, Persian Gulf, Army, dated 15 January 1916 | |
29690 |
Somaliland Protectorate Campaign, Army, dated 20 February 1916 (not included) | |
29692 |
Nyasaland Protectorate Campaign, Army, Dated 1 November 1915, including
Lake Nyasa Operations | |
29716 |
Western Front, Army, dated
31 July 1916 (not included) | |
29736 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Belgian Coast, RNAS, Adriatic etc | |
29751 |
Battle of
Jutland - Awards to Officers, dated 23 August 1916
(separate page) | |
29752 |
Battle of
Jutland - Awards to Petty Officers and Men, dated 15 September 1916
(separate page) | |
29763 |
Egyptian Campaign, Army, dated 1 June 1916, also Salonika | | | | | | October - December 1916 | |
29782 |
Mesopotamian Campaign, Army, dated 12 August 1916 | |
29789 |
Mesopotamian Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 24 August 1916 | |
29799 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - submarines, Mesopotamia, RNAS etc | |
29800 |
Sudan and Darfur Operations, Army, dated 8 August 1916 (not included) | |
29823 |
Mesopotamian Campaign, Army, dated 27 August 1916 | |
29845 |
Egyptian Campaign, Army, dated 1 October 1916, including
Sinai | |
29851 |
Salonika Campaign, Army, dated 8 October 1916
(excerpts) | |
29884 |
Western Front, Army, dated
23 December 1916 (not included) | |
29886 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - Battle of Jutland, minesweeping, submarines etc | | | | | | 1917 | | |
January - March | |
29890 |
Western Front - Naval Mentions, dated 13 November
1916 | |
29906
|
East African Campaign, Army, dated 27 October
1916 (excerpts) | |
29914
|
United Kingdom Home Defence, Army, dated 31st
December 1916 | |
29933
|
East Africa Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 22
November 1916 | | | | | |
April - June 1917 | |
30015
|
Gallipoli Campaign - Evacuation,
dated 22 December 1915 and 26 January 1916 | |
30026
|
East African Campaign, Army, dated 28 February
1917 (excerpt) | |
30029
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - patrol cruisers, RNAS
etc | |
30061
|
Dover Straits Action,
dated 10 May 1917 | |
30066
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - RNAS, Merchant Navy etc | |
30072
|
Western Front - Naval Mentions, dated 9 April
1917 | |
30088
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - destroyer patrol
flotillas, armed boarding steamers, Dover Patrol etc | |
30102
|
Sudan and Darfur
Operations, Army, dated 17 April 1917 (not included) | |
30133
|
East African Campaign,
dated 28 January 1917 | |
30140
|
Western
Front, Army, dated
31 May 1917 (not
included) | |
30147
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - Dardanelles, RNAS,
Merchant Navy etc | |
30153
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - Auxiliary Patrol | |
30159
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - minesweeping | | | | | |
July - September 1917 | |
30169
|
Egyptian Campaign, Army, dated 1 March 1917
(excerpts) | |
30176
|
Mesopotamian Campaign, Army, dated 10 April 1917
(excerpts) | |
30182
|
East African Campaign, Army, dated 10 March 1917
(excerpts) | |
30194
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - U-boat campaign, RNAS,
Merchant Navy etc | |
30196
|
Salonika Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 29
March 1917 | |
30227
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - U-boat campaign, RNAS,
Merchant Navy etc | |
30233
|
Mesopotamian Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 15
August 1917 | |
30258
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - Straits of Otranto,
Q-Ships, Merchant Navy etc | |
30285
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - U-boat campaign, RNAS,
Merchant Navy etc | |
30298
|
Mesopotamian Campaign,
dated 7 May 1917 | |
30305
|
Nyasaland Operations, Army, dated 30 April 1917
(excerpts) | |
30316
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - RNAS etc | | | | | |
October - December 1917 | |
30360
|
Indian Empire Operations, Army, dated 23 July
1917 (excerpts) | |
30363
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - U-boat campaign,
Submarines, RNAS etc | |
30380
|
Salonika Campaign, Army, dated 1 October 1917
(excerpts) | |
30386
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - U-boat campaign, RNAS,
Merchant Navy etc | |
30391
|
Egyptian Campaign (Sinai), Army, dated 28 June
1917 (excerpts) | |
30404
|
Salonika Campaign - Naval Mentions, dated 25
October 1917 | |
30408
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - U-boat campaign, RNAS,
Merchant Navy etc | |
30421
|
Western Front - Naval Mentions, dated 7 November
1917 | |
30437
|
Naval Gallantry Awards - RNAS, U-boat campaign,
Merchant Navy etc | |
30442
|
A Memorable non-naval, Gallantry Award - two
Canadian children and a cougar | |
30447
|
East Africa
Campaign, Army, dated 30 May 1917
(extracts) | | | | | |
1918
in preparation | | | | | |
1919
in preparation | | | |
| | 1920 |
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January - March |
|
31745 |
Naval Gallantry Awards - North Russia | |
31748 |
Naval
Gallantry Awards - Caspian Sea, minesweeping, Grand Fleet etc | |
31811
|
Naval
Gallantry Awards - Baltic, North Russia, Siberia etc | |
31813
|
Mesopotamian
Expeditionary Force, Army, dated 12 November 1919
(not included) | |
31823
|
Operations
Against Afghanistan, Army, dated 1 November 1919 (not included) | |
31840
|
Civilian
honours connected with the war at sea | | | | | |
April - June 1920 | |
31850 |
North Russian
Expeditionary Force,
Army,
dated 5 October 1918 to 1 November 1919 | |
31856
|
Baltic Operations,
dated 9 February 1920 | |
31906
|
North Russian
Expeditionary Force,
dated 1 January 1920 | | | | | |
July - September 1920 | |
31970
|
North Russia
in 1918 - Naval affairs | |
32007
|
Indian Empire
Operations,
Army, dated 29 September
1919
(excerpts) | | | | | |
October - December 1920 | | |
(Short lists of
gallantry awards and prize money etc) | |
32107
|
Somaliland
Protectorate Operations,
Army, dated 15 May 1920
(not
included) | |
32116
|
Somaliland Protectorate Operations,
Air
Force, dated May 1920
(not included) | |
32156
|
Afghanistan/Waziristan Operations,
Army, dated 1 August 1920
(not included) | | | |
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