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Letters Cyril Tingley, Able Seaman, Gunner, was lost in HMS Transylvania when she was sunk on 10th August, 1940 January 01, 2010 Subject: HMS Transylvania Hi Mac I've had some information about HMS Transylvania from Christine Lincoln, my cousin-in-law on the Isle of Wight. My father Cyril Tingley was lost when she was sunk on 10th August, 1940. His rank was Able Seaman, Gunner. The underwater pictures show a 4 inch gun, and it's possible that my father was involved in firing it. Christine mentioned that Lewis Wilfred Le Page was also on Transylvania at that time and that he may still be alive. I was only 4 years old at the time so did not know my father. I see on your Web Log page there is a letter from Robert Le Page his son about celebrating his father's 88th birthday in Julu 2009. Is it possible to put me in touch with Robert Le Page so that I may contact him? It would be fantastic if there was even a slight possibility of contacting someone who may have known my father Yours sincerely Michael Tingley Portsmouth, UK Michael, I regret I do not still have Robert Le Page's address, there are over 800 names in my address book, and from time to time they are culled. Here is your Father's Certificate from the Commonwealth War Graves site: 1 TINGLEY , CYRIL Leading Seaman P/J 111094 10/08/1940 32 Royal Navy United Kingdom Panel 38, Column 1. PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL He is listed as a Leading Seaman and is recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial At Panel 38, Column 1. you may well already be aware of this. Plaque 1 Inscription IN HONOUR OF THE NAVY AND TO THE ABIDING MEMORY OF THOSE RANKS AND RATINGS OF THIS PORT WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE AND HAVE NO OTHER GRAVE THAN THE SEA Plaque 2 Inscription GENERAL ACTIONS AT SEA HELIGOLAND 28TH AUGUST 1914 CORONEL 1ST NOVEMBER 1914 FALKLAND ISLANDS 8TH DECEMBER 1914 DOGGER BANK 24TH JANUARY 1915 JUTLAND 31ST MAY 1916 Plaque 3 Inscription SINGLE SHIP ACTIONS HMS CARMANIA HMAS SYDNEY HM SHIPS SEVERN & MERSEY HM SHIPS ACHILLES & DUNDEE HM SHIPS SWIFT & BROKE S.M.S. CAP TRAFALGAR 14.9.1914 S.M.S. EMDEN 9.11.1914 S.M.S KONIGSBERG 6 & 11.7.1915 S.M.S. LEOPARD 16.3.1917 GERMAN T.B.Ds 21.4.1917 Plaque 4 Inscription ACTIONS WITH ENEMY LAND FORCES BELGIAN COAST DARDANELLES TSINGTAO SUEZ-CANAL ZEEBRUGGE OSTEND Plaque 5 Inscription THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL This memorial commemorates officers ranks and ratings of this Port who died at sea during the wars 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. Actions in which they fought are recorded in the registers and on the memorial itself Similar memorials at Plymouth and Chatham commemorate men and women of those manning ports while merchant seamen who died from enemy action and have no grave but the sea are commemorated in Liverpool and at Tower Hill in London. The names of those who died during the Second World War whilst serving in the Royal Naval Patrol Service or the Fleet Air Arm and whose graves are unknown are respectively on memorials at Lowestoft and at Lee on-the-Solent. Other memorials, at Halifax and Victoria in Canada, at Auckland in New Zealand, at Bombay in India, at Chittagong in Bangladesh and at Hong Kong commemorate sailors who came from those parts of the Commonwealth while the Newfounland Memorial at Beaumont Hamel in France bears the names of 229 Newfoundland sailors lost at sea during the First World War. Of the 24,588 men and women whose names are on this monument 9,666 died during the First World War and 14,922 including 75 from Newfoundland who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. All were buried at sea or were otherwise denied by the fortunes of war, a known and honoured grave. THIS MEMORIAL WAS BUILT AND IS MAINTAINED BY THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION 1914-1918 MEMORIAL ARCHITECT - SIR ROBERT LORIMER SCULPTOR - HENRY POOLE 1939-1945 EXTENSION ARCHITECT - SIR EDWARD MAUFE SCULPTOR - SIR CHARLES WHEELER Plaque 6 Inscription 1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945 ALL THESE WERE HONOURED IN THEIR GENERATIONS AND WERE THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES Plaque 7 Inscription THESE RANKS AND RATINGS DIED ON SHORE BUT HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE Panels 33-44 Panels 62 - 91 Further Information After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading mark for shipping. The memorials were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, who had already carried out a considerable amount of work for the Commission, with sculpture by Henry Poole. After the Second World War it was decided that the naval memorials should be extended to provide space for commemorating the naval dead without graves of that war, but since the three sites were dissimilar, a different architectural treatment was required for each. The architect for the Second World War extension at Portsmouth was Sir Edward Maufe (who also designed the Air Forces memorial at Runnymede) and the additional sculpture was by Charles Wheeler, William McMillan, and Esmond Burton. Best wishes for 2010. Mac. back to letters index

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