HMS Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy

[Tina B]

Hi my great grandfather Ernest W Brumpton was a Gunner on HMS Aboukir when she was hit.
He was a married man with two children & in the salvaltion army, he was in a rescue boat when he saw a man in the water who he know had a bigger family then he did so they swapped places & this man lived but my great grandfather died.
If anyone has any info on who this man was & on what happened that day on the Aboukir I would love to know.

[JShine]

My Great Grandfather Walter Legge survived the sinking of HMS Aboukir - he was Master At Arms [ ex RN reserve called to front line duty in August 1914 ] ..he was picked up by a Dutch Trawler and taken to Holland.

In case you don't know 254 survived on Aboukir, 204 on Cressey and 381 on Hogue...I understand 527 died on Aboukir and another 938 betwen the 2 other ships.

Excellent website listing all survivors and those who died is one specialising in all RN WW1 ships lost..

http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1914-09Sept.htm

wrecksite details [ via this for all 3 ships ] =

http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?57


Anyone with more details/websites I'd be grateful for information.

Regards
James

[Titanicfan]

Hi James

Thanks for the helpful websites - I looked my great grandfather up on the survivors list and I did not know there was a website with info. on the wreck sites.

You're one of the very few relatives of survivors that I have heard from so I'm just curious to know if you have heard many details of the disaster passed down from your family members? All I was told by my family was that my great grandfather managed to grab a piece of a wooden door that was floating (after rescuing H.M.S. Hogue's flag) and then floated on this until he was rescued (the ship's flag was placed in a museum by my great aunt). I know that he was injured and was in hospital for quite a while after this happened but I don't know which hospital they were sent to in Holland or how they got back to England.

[Jim B]

Titanicfan,

In this link you may find some thing of intrest ..

http://www.worldnavalships.com/forum...hlight=aboukir

Jim b

[Tina B]

My great grandfather was a Machine Gunner on the Aboukir.
He was saved from the water but he saw a friend & as his friend had a bigger family then him & my great grandfather was in the Salvaltion Army he gave up his seat in the boat & my great grandfather died.
I am at the moment reading the book Three before Breakfast by Alan Coles

[4578morra]

my great grandfather served on the aboukir.
he joined RN in 1896 his height is down twice. 5.1 ft and 5.9 ft

his navy record says he was born in liverpool 18 dec 1878, but i cannot find any record of this.
He served on about 15 ships.
including inpregnable,boswian?,mersey,empress of india,jupiter,pembroke,
illustrious 1901 census malta single man.
waldf...?
wernon
berwick
actaeon
leander
blake, blenheim.

joined chatham dec 1908 B5466 what does this mean?
ABOUKIR 2ND AUG 1914 - 22 SEP 1914.

I have his daughters marriage cert.... dorothy davies.

she was married in leeds...

where was she born?

what was her mothers name?

any thing else you can help me with please


Ian

Is there anyone researching their family history who has an ancestor that served on HMS Aboukir, Cressy or Hogue during WWI?

My great grandfather served on HMS Hogue when all three ships were torpedoed by the U9 German submarine on 22nd September 1914. Luckily, my great grandfather survived the sinking and was rescued.

[Tina B]

Hi I take it everyone knows about the Memorial in Southsea Portsmouth for the men who lost their lives on the Aboukir when they got Yellow Fever in Jamaca in 1873-1874.
Also for the men who lost their lives in the Battle of the Nile 1798.

I would like to know if there is a memorial for those who lost their lives in 1914.

[Jim B]

4578morra,

joined chatham dec 1908 B5466 what does this mean?....B5466 will have been his official number in the navy ,and any where in naval records ,you quote that number his name should come up.

ABOUKIR 2ND AUG 1914 - 22 SEP 1914.
Those dates above , i believe is the dates he was on that ship ..

I Have been looking through the amount of ships he had been on ,
...Pembroke,that was at chatham
... wernon
is spelt incorrect , i.e H.M.S VERNON that was in Portsmouth

The other were ships , but though there is a couple that may have been shore bases,
His branch i cart make out , but at a guess , if he spent time at VERNON, he would be dealing with torpedoes and depth charges .....not sure about mines.

I hope that clears a bit up .

Jim B

[Geoffers]

I would like to know if there is a memorial for those who lost their lives in 1914.

Do you mean the Southsea memorial to those for whom there is no known grave? It includes both world wars.

Click on the Ship index and you get a list of ships and specific memorials listing names. There is also a searchable database of names on the memorial.

CWGC also lists names of those who died and locations of memorials.

[Jim B]

Hi I take it everyone knows about the Memorial in Southsea Portsmouth for the men who lost their lives on the Aboukir when they got Yellow Fever in Jamaca in 1873-1874.
Also for the men who lost their lives in the Battle of the Nile 1798.

I would like to know if there is a memorial for those who lost their lives in 1914.

Tina B

here is a link for the ABOUKIR http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Ships/HMSAboukir.html

The memorial is at Chatham.

Jim B