{"id":7337,"date":"2025-04-26T08:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7337"},"modified":"2025-04-26T08:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:40:56","slug":"braine-c-s-acting-lt-hms-anchusa-royal-naval-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/braine-c-s-acting-lt-hms-anchusa-royal-naval-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Braine C S Acting Lt HMS Anchusa Royal Naval Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRAINE, CARL SVEND, Acting Lieut.. Royal Naval Reserve, 4th 8. of George Duncan Braine, of Kirkmichael, Galton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea. co. Essex, Trinity House Pilot, by his wife. Mary Emslie, dau. of Capt. William Robertson, of Peterhead, co. Aberdeen. Merchant Service: b.8 June. 1894; edue. Lindisfarne College, Westcliff-on-Sea, and H.M.S. Conway. Rock Ferry, co. Chester: joined the Clan Line of Glasgow as Midshipman in 1910; obtained 2nd Mate&#8217;s Certificate in 1913: appointed 5th Officer R.M.S.P. Trent: gazetted Midshipman Royal Naval Reserve in 1911 on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. appointed Sub-Lieut. H.M.S. Hildebrand, 10th Cruiser Squadron; volunteered for special service, and from Oct. 1917. served on H.M.S. Anchusa, which was then fitted out as a mystery ship, and was lost at sea when that ship was torpedoed by enemy submarine 16 July, 1918. A survivor wrote: &#8220;A better officer to serve under I will never find.&#8221; and Lieut. Broadbent, Commander School Ship Conway: &#8220;He served his country loyally and most usefully for four years, and died a sailor&#8217;s death &#8230;.unflinchingly.&#8221; Uum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAINE, CARL SVEND, Acting Lieut.. Royal Naval Reserve, 4th 8. of George Duncan Braine, of Kirkmichael, Galton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea. co. Essex, Trinity House Pilot, by his wife. Mary Emslie, dau. of Capt. William Robertson, of Peterhead, co. Aberdeen. Merchant Service: b.8 June. 1894; edue. Lindisfarne College, Westcliff-on-Sea, and H.M.S. Conway. Rock Ferry, co. Chester: joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-naval-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7338,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions\/7338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}