The reason I ask, is that I have recently had published my book 'Father and Son, Volunteers both World Wars 1 and 2' in which my grandfather, Charles Cecil Arkin enlisted with Jack Ashburn in the Royal
Naval division, Divisional Engineers in February 1915.
He worked with the Drake Battalion Royal
Naval Division before being moved to the 9th Welsh.
Above: British soldiers in France show off their humour with a poster stating Hotel De Ritz, circa 1916 Left: British officers cook a casserole in an army helmet 1917 Right: Charge by
Naval Division on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, 1915 Below, left: Lord Kitchener (second right) seen here on a tour of the trenches in the Dardanelles with General Maxwell (second left).
These rare photographs capture the horrors of the trenches during the First World War Above: British soldiers in France show off their humour with a poster stating Hotel De Ritz, circa 1916 Left: British officers cook a casserole in an army helmet 1917 Right: Charge by
Naval Division on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Below, left: Lord Kitchener (second right) seen here on a tour of the trenches in the Dardanelles with General Maxwell (second left).
In April 1916, the authorities decided to bring the troops of the Royal
Naval Division back to France, and at the same time command of the Division was transferred from the Admiralty to the War Office, being redesignated as the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division on 19 July 1916.
The maritime area of CPEC at the tip of Baluchistan in Gwadar will be guarded by
naval division 'Task force 88'.
James served with the Royal
Naval Division, a land-based formation consisting of a surplus of naval recruits who came forward after war was declared.
One South Shields man who died at Gallipoli was Lieutenant Commander Wallace Annand who was killed on June 4 ,1915, leading the Collingwood Battalion of the Royal
Naval Division.
His great-grandfather was Able Bodied Seaman Thomas Otto Hartshorn, of Nelson Battalion, Royal
Naval Division.
He was employed by Messrs Harland and Wolff Ltd, in their chair department, and on the outbreak of the war joined the Howe Battalion, Royal
Naval Division. Full of life, of fine physique, a keen cyclist and footballer, he was a general favourite with all he came in contact with.
He volunteered for the Public Schools' ("D") Company of the Hawke Battalion, Royal
Naval Division in December 1914.