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Officers and Men Killed in Action or Died of Wounds, H.M.S. Barham, Battle of Jutland,  31st May -1st June 1916.

Extract from the Official History; " Naval Operations" by Sir Julian S. Corbett. 1923

 ...........As Admiral Beatty ran out of range firing became intermittent, and within eight minutes ceased altogether. At 5.10 he reduced to 24 knots, and made his way northward to join the main fleet.
     Away on his port quarter Admiral Evan-Thomas was having the same trouble. By the time his turn northward was completed he was some three miles astern of the battle cruisers and nearly abreast of the Konig, so that he at once became engaged with Admiral Scheer's van squadron, as well as with Admiral Hipper. To reduce the range the whole German battle fleet had turned north-west by divisions, and in this formation was trying to close the range. The Barham had hardly turned before she was badly hit by a heavy shell which caused many casualties and wrecked her wireless gear......

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Barham Photo 1930s (offsite)

Built by John Brown and Co. Clydebank. Laid down February 1913, completed October 1915.

Queen Elizabeth Class Dreadnought ("Fast Division"). Normal Displacement 27,500 tons (31,000 to 33,000 full load). Complement; 955  - 1016. Length 600 feet, beam 90.5 feet. Machinery; Brown-Curtis turbine, 24 oil fired boilers. design HP 75,000 = 25 kts. Guns, eight at 15 inch, twelve at 6 inch, two at 3 inch, five machine guns, four "3 pdrs"  and four 21 inch submerged broadside torpedo tubes.

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Barham was hit by 6 large calibre projectiles during the battle, killing 4 officers and 22 men, and wounding 1 officer and 36 men.


Lieutenant
Reginald Edward Blyth.

Chaplain
Henry Dixon Dixon-Wright. M.V.O. M.A.

Fleet Paymaster
John Spencer Place.

Warrant Telegraphist
Harry Burnell

 

Binstead, Charles Henry, A.B. Briggs, Henry Charles, S.B.A. Davison, Thomas Orr, A.B. (R.N.V.R)
Easter, Charles, Boy 1. Ellis, Arthur, Ord. Tel. George, Walter Edmund, A.B.
Hanson, Frederick Sydney Ord. Tel. Heap, Thomas, Ord. Sea. Hickman, William, A.B.
Ineson, Bernard Grimshaw, Boy Tel. Johnson, Ralph, Boy 1. Jones, William Victor, Boy 1.
Lamborn, William James, Boy Tel. Laverock, Herbert, Ord. Tel. McBrinn, Richard Joseph, E.R.A. 3.
Riddington, Arthur, P.O. Taylor, Edwin, Boy 1. Tulit, Edward James, Boy 1.
Tyrrell, George Philip, Ord. Sea. Wake, Eric Gordon, Boy Tel. Young, Ernest, Sto. 1.
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