WW1 BRITISH/AUSTRALIAN ROYAL NAVY BRITISH WAR MEDAL STOKER HEWETT HMAS TINGIRA

Offered is a British War Medal, impressed named 1798 F.J.HEWETT. CH.STO. R.A.N. Comes with copy Royal Navy service papers & Royal Australian service papers.

Frederick John Hewett was born 1/8/1869 Faversham Kent. Enlisted into the Royal Navy 3/11/1887 as a ‘Stocker’ with a service number 143074. Served on the following ships: HMS Australia 19/11/1889 – 7/6/1893 (Coast Guard Squadron). HMS Mersey 29/11/1893 – 11/4/1895 (coast Guard Squadron). HMS Alexandra 12/4/1895 – 25/4/1895 (Coast Guards). Plymouth Beer Boat 26/4/1895 – 26/5/1895. HMS Forte 5/11/1895 – 22/5/1896. HMS Surprise 23/5/1896 – 27/1/1898. HMS Northampton 2/3/00 – 3/3/1901. HMS Terror 19/10/1901 – 19/12/1901. HMS Hotspur 20/12/1901 – 4/9/1902 (Guard ship Bermuda). HMS Pallas 5/9/1902 – 16/2/1904. HMS King Alfred 11/2/1905 – 23/6/1905. HMS Resolution 8/7/1905 – 31/7/1905. HMS Venerable 1/8/1905 – 1/2/1909.Pembroke II 2/2/1909 – 15/12/1909- Pensioned. Joined RVR Chatham 8/1/1910.

Joined RAN in Australia 21/6/1912 Chief Stoker service number 1798. Served at the following ships/establishments:

HMAS Tingira (see inset photo/boys parading) 21/6/1912 – 30/6/1913; Fitted out as a boy’s training ship at Mort’s Dock Balmain. Commissioned into the RAN as HMAS Tingira on 25 April 1912. Tingira became a well-known sight in Sydney harbour at her permanent mooring in Rose Bay. There she was supported by shore facilities in Kent Hall on New South Head Road. Nearby Lyne Park was also used for the purpose of parade, rifle and field gun training.

HMAS Penguin 1/7/1913 – 21/6/1915. HMAS Encounter 22/6/1915 – 21/1/1916. HMAS Penguin 22/1/1916 – 20/7/1916. HMAS Tingira 21/7/1916 – 20/6/1917 (Shore time expired).

A nice piece of early Royal Australian Navy history. Chief Stoker Hewett after long service in the R.N transferred to the fledgling R.A.N. as an ‘old sweat’ to train new recruits, having served nearly 30 years before being pensioned.