Chatham in the Great War Wynn Stephen
Chatham in the Great War Wynn Stephen Chatham played a very important part in the nation's Great War effort. The war was only 6 weeks old when Chatham felt the affects of war for the first time. It…
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Chatham in the Great War Wynn Stephen
Chatham played a very important part in the nation's Great War effort. The war was only 6 weeks old when Chatham felt the affects of war for the first time. It was one of the British Royal Navy's three 'Manning Ports', with more than a third of the town's ships manned by men allocated to the Chatham Division.
A total of 1,459 men lost their lives that day, 1,260 of whom were from the Chatham Division. On 22 September 1914, three Royal Naval vessels from the Chatham Division, HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, were sunk in quick succession by a German submarine, U-9. Two months later, on 26 November, the battleship HMS Bulwark exploded and sunk whilst at anchor off of Sheerness on the Kent coast.
There was a loss of 736 men, many of whom were from the Chatham area. On 18 August 1914, Private 6737 Walter Henry Smith, who was nineteen and serving with the 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment,
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