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Offline PennyX

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Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« on: Friday 16 December 05 12:45 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone help please?  Ancester got Mention after Yanhi wars in Gold Coast.  Where can I get details?
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Re: Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« Reply #1 on: Friday 16 December 05 13:07 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

Can you supply more details??

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Re: Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« Reply #2 on: Friday 16 December 05 13:09 GMT (UK) »
If it was during WW11 below is a link for general information about the war.

http://www.ohiou.edu/oupress/soldiersairmen.htm

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Re: Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« Reply #3 on: Friday 16 December 05 15:30 GMT (UK) »
Sorry I can't - I know he was involved in dragging a Maxim gun from the coast (he was then serving on the steamer Countess of Derby to where the insurrection was in 1887 but that's all I know.
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Re: Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« Reply #4 on: Friday 16 December 05 16:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi Penny, may be something here.

http://www.theheliograph.com/articles_waima.html

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Re: Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« Reply #5 on: Friday 16 December 05 18:46 GMT (UK) »
Thanks - interesting, but a bit late for me.  The Countess seems to have stayed around for several years though.
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Re: Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« Reply #6 on: Friday 16 December 05 21:12 GMT (UK) »
General info including Steamer Countess of Derby:

http://www.theheliograph.com/articles_waima.html

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Re: Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« Reply #7 on: Friday 16 December 05 21:48 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, Anna, a bit late for me.
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Re: Royal Navy Mention in Despatches 1887/8
« Reply #8 on: Friday 16 December 05 22:41 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: PennyX on Friday 16 December 05 12:45 GMT (UK)

Yanhi wars in Gold Coast. 


May be this one?  Sierra Leone, 1887

 [Yoni also spelled Yonni]

" Frustrated by years of the local chief breaking their word over slavery in 1887 the Government decided to make an example of one tribe the Yonni sending a force of West Indies and R.N. sailors with rockets against them. After some skirmishes, one column was ambushed six times in two miles, and the use of the rockets the Yonni surrendered. "

http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/yankee/yonni1887.htm


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