The names of over 8,000 men of the Chatham Division who lost their lives during the First World War and for whom there is no known grave are commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial which stands above the Historic Dockyard on the Great Lines. "Drill Hall: History of Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham", "The Historic Dockyard, Chatham Conservation Management Plan: 4th Edition", "Private Papers of Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Thistleton-Smith KBE CB GM", Information about the memorial to the victims of the Drill Shed Bombing, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Naval_Barracks,_Chatham&oldid=1133401639, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Captain Ernest Rice: July 1891 July 1893, Captain Swinton C. Holland: July 1893 July 1896, Captain Robert F. Hammick: July 1896 October 1898, Captain Angus Macleod: October 1898 May 1901, Captain Reginald C. Prothero: May 1901 October 1902, Captain Lewis E. Wintz: October 1902 July 1904, Commodore Frederick G.Stopford: July 1904 May 1907, Commodore Seymour E. Erskine: August 1911 April 1913, Rear-Admiral Seymour E.Erskine: August 1915 July 1918, Commodore Louis C.S.Woollcombe: June 1921 May 1922, Commodore Eric J.A.Fullerton: November 1923 December 1925, Commodore Geoffrey Hopwood: December 1925 December 1927, Commodore Hugh S. Shipway: December 1927 November 1929, Commodore John A.S. Eccles: February 1948 October 1949, Commodore Peter L. Collard: November 1953 November 1955, Commodore Hugh C.B. It was a sad spectacle in the moonlight officers and men carrying the dead bodies of comrades into buildings which had been transformed into a mortuary and the seriously wounded cases into motor ambulances which sped to the hospital - flying glass and falling debris accounting for many of the casualties. HMS Pembroke X was the headquarters of the Royal Navy Patrol Service at Lowestoft in 1939/40. In this picture he had a moustache I have been told that this means he was RNR cannot find him in BT 377 (RNR ratings records of service) Merchant Seamen records for 1913-18 when i know he was in Liverpool have been destroyed. Royal Navy K15145 Stoker HMS Pembroke, HMS Cadmus, HMS Conquest, HMS St George. Old timers had tattoos and wore light colour collars. It is not correct to say that the PEMBROKE II pay office was hit, although many casualties were borne on the books of PEMBROKE II. PEMBROKE had at least eight different nominal ships over the years, including the original PEMBROKE (1812). Today we have a postcard depicting part of this barrack complex: The barracks were known as HMS Pembroke and remained in use as one of the three big manning bases until after the Second World War. One of our communicators had an ancient Rolls Royce into which we all piled for the run ashore. please The person may not have physically been at the location of the base during the dates shown on records, they are often at another port or in transit on a ship to which they were not assigned as crew. One sailor who spent time at HMS Pembroke describes the barracks in the mid 1950s: The Block at theeastern end housed the Barrack Guard and the Laundry and was There were beds then but hooksand stowagesremainedand some of thosein transit had to use hammocks. At one time I had a job carrying out radio modifications to these so called dead ships. East camp Chatham 1976 Accommodation hut at East Camp HMS Pembroke in Chatham Kent where all trainee cooks where accommodated whilst in training.. '76 was one of the hottest summers on record . They were WARRIOR [at Blackwall], BLACK PRINCE [at Glasgow]; DEFENCE [at Jarrow] and RESISTANCE [at Millwall]. On September 3, 1917, the Drill Shed was bombed during one of the first night-time air attacks in Britain, which killed more than 130 sailors. Photo - IWM.