Tilly Hill's World War I scrapbook

• March 18, 2017 05:04:59 Cheryl Ellsworth

   Left side: 

   Newspaper clipping: 

  THE LAST SCENES AT ENGLEMERE.

   Photograph of people walking behind the flag-draped casket 

  Lady Aileen Mary Roberts, who succeeds to the title, followed behind the gun carriage. Then came Lady Ada Edwina, with her husband, Major Lewis

  
  

   Newspaper clipping of a photograph of the gun carriage carrying the casket with people walking behind 

  The arrival of the coffin at Ascot station.

  
  

   Right side: 

   Top left newspaper clipping of a man's head with short dark hair and a dark mustache 

  A new portrait of King Albert of the

  Belgians, who is to attend to-day the

  Red Cross concert arranged by

  Countess Curson of Kedlenton at the

  Albert Hall.

  
  

   Top center newspaper clipping of a man in a plumed hat and military uniform with a mustache 

  MAJOR GENERAL LANCELOTE

  KIGGELL,

  Whom the King has promoted for distinguished

  conduct in the field, is probably

  the youngest General in the army, and comes

  of a family of soldiers. He is the only son

  of the late Major Kiggell, Cahara, Glin.

  The General's second son, who is a Lieutenant

  in the Royal Engineers, has had a

  narrow escape, his horse having been shot

  from under him in a recent engagement at

  the front. Lieutenant King-King, a

  nephew, is in the South Irish Horse. Lieut.-

  Col. King-King, who is a brother-in-law

  of General Giggell's, is on the Staff at Dublin.

  His other brother-in-law, Captain W.

  H. Harkness, of Cahara, served with distinction

  in the last Boer War. General

  Kiggell's friends and neighbours in Glin

  congratulate him on his latest honours,

  Medal (gold) to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 

  and Major General SIr Lancelot Edward Kiggell,

  K. C. B. The above got the Order of Damilo

  (first class).

  
  

   Top right newspaper clipping: 

  REPORTED SINKING OF H.M.S.
  

  AUDACIOUS.

  ------

  CREW RESCUED BY OLYMPIC.

  -----

  New York, November 15.

  The Associated Press states that advices

  by mail report that the battleship Audacious

  was sunk by a torpedo or mine on

  October 27th, off the Irish coast and that

  the Olympic saved her crew and attempted

  to tow her ashore but failed.

  ------

  (Received at 6:30 p.m. yesterday).

  London, November 15.

  The Admiralty has not made any statement

  regarding the reported loss of the

  battleship Audacious.

  
  

  New York, November 15.

  The following details have been given

  out by the Associated Press. The Olympic

  was ten miles away when the Audacious

  signalled distress, and on her reaching she

  found the cruiser Liverpool and smaller

  vessels standing by in a heavy and

  dangerous sea, making the launching of

  small boats perilous. Captain Haddock,

  calling for volunteers, a double number

  stepped forward eagerly, and the best having

  been picked the boats were put over in

  brilliant style. The discipline on board the

  battleship was fine, every man standing

  at quarters until his turn came to enter the

  boats, and before noon the Olympic's boats

  had taken off all except 100 of the crew,

  and these remained on board the battleship

  while Captain Haddock essayed

  to tow her to the Irish coast, 25 miles

  away, the Liverpool and the other

  rescue ships standing by. It was

  difficult work getting a cable on board the

  Audacious and by the time this was

  performed she was well down by the stern,

  and when the Olympic started to drag

  on the cable it parted as the strain was too

  great. The bulkheads of the Audacious

  then began to give way under the strain,

  and the task of saving her becoming hopeless

  the rest of the crew were taken off and

  she was abandoned. She soon began to

  settle lower as one after the other of the

  bulkheads yielded to the increasing pressure

  and at 9 p.m., as the Dreadnought was

  rolling in the heavy sea, a violent explosion

  shattered her stern, she stood almost

  straight with bows pointing up, and then

  in a moment disappeared. It is supposed

  that a shell, rolling loose as she listed and

  foundered, detonated, causing her magazine

  to blow up. Great splinters of steel

  and other wreckage were tossed high in

  the air over a large area and a splinter

  which fell on board the Liverpool

  caused the only casualty, that of a gunner,

  whose legs were severed, causing his death.

       The sinking of the Audacious by the

  stern favours the theory of a submarine

  rather than a mine. Her crew stood like

  ninepins while the waves were washing

  over the feet of those nearest

  the stern, there was no hurry

  and no excitement, the quiet orders being

  instantly obeyed. A Swedish trawler passed

  the cable from the Audacious to the

  Olympic, but it parted under a strain

  of 30,000 tons at one end and

  45,000 at the other heaving uncontrollably

  in the heavy sea. The trawler

  tried to pass the anchor chains of the 

  Audacious, which were the world's longest

  and strongest, but they were too heavy

  for her to handle and this was the last

  hope.

       The Audacious was one of the four most

  powerful of our super-Dreadnoughts belonging

  to the King George V. class, completed

  last year. She was 596 feet long,

  with a beam of 80 ft. and a maximum displacement

  of 23,000. Turbine engines of 27,000 h.p.

  developed a speed of 21 1/2 knots. The armament

  consisted of ten  13.5in. six 4in . and four 3

  pownder guns with three submerged torpedo

  tubes. All the big guns, which were mounted

  in pairs in turrets on the centre line, could fire

  on either broadside. Protection was afforded

  by a twelve inch armour belt amidships, which

  
  

   Center left newspaper clipping of a photograph of a man's head wearing a military cap and dark mustache 

  APPOINTMENT - Lt-
  

  Gen. Sir L. K. Kiggell,

  K.C.B., K.C.M.G. to

  command troops in

   Germany  and Alderney.

  
  

   Center left newspaper clipping 

  General Sir Lancelot E. Kiggel, K.C.B.

  who has just retired under the age limit,

  from the Governorship of Germany, is a

  Limerick man who has seen mosh service

  and greatly distinguished himself. Most of

  his  life  was passed in the Warwickshire

  Regiment. In the Boer War of 1900 he was

  a General Staff Officer, first grade, and he

  then became Director of Staff D[ ] at

  Headquarters. Major Harkness, late 6th

  Dragoon Guards, formerly a well-known

  member of the Dawson street Club (then

  called the Four C's, but more unpolitical), is

  married to a sister of General Higgel.

  
  

   Center middle newspaper clipping 

  Major-General L. Kiggell, now Assistant

  to the Chief of the Imperial General

  Staff, will become Chief of the General

  Staff to Sir Douglas Haig.

  ------

  THE NEW CHIEF OF STAFF
  

  Our new Chief of Staff, Brigadier-General

  Launcelot Edward Kiggell, C.B., who was

  Assistant to Sir Charles Murray at the War

  Office, is a native of the County Limerick.

  The son of Launcelot John Kiggell, J.P., of

  Cahara, Glin, he was born in October 1862.

  He passed from Sandhurst into the royal

  Warwickshire Regiment in 1882, and became

  Adjutant of the second battalion four years

  later. In 1823-4 he passed the Staff College,

  and in 1885 was appointed Instructor of the 

  Royal Military College. Between 1897 and 

  1899 he acted as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-

  General of the South-Kastern District, and in

  the latter year he went to South Africa, where

  he remained until peace was declared. He

  was mentioned in despatches, received the

  breved of Lieutenant-Colonel and the Queen's

  and King's medals, with eight clasps. On his

  return to England he was appointed Professor

  of Military Art at the Staff College, and he

  subsequently became General Staff Officer,

  Army Headquarters, and in 1909 Brigadier-

  General in charge of administration, Scottish

  Command.

  
  

   Lower left newspaper clipping: 

   [ ]  painting above and at the  [ ] 

  complement was 900 officers and men, and she

  cost more than 1,900,000 to build and equip

  -----

  SOME FURTHER PARTICULARS

  22-11-14

  The Central News correspondent at Copenhagen

  states that the Commandant of the

  force at Trendhjem, Norway, has been removed

  because the German converted cruiser

  Berlin passed there undetected. It is reported

  that the Berlin convoyed the submarine

  which, it is alleged, sank the battleship Audacious

  and that it was not a mine the latter

  struck as at first reported. It is declared

  that both the explosions on the Audacious

  were caused by torpedoes.

  
  

   Bottom center newspaper clipping: 

  SIR LAUNCELOT KIGGELL

  The Court Circular announces that Lieutenant-

  General Sir Launcelot Kiggell, Lieutenant-

  Governor of Guernsey, and Lady Kiggell

  were received by Their Majesties yesterday.

  
  

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