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 Photo: Fyne and Co., Cape Town Caption Reads: Captain Sir Edward Chichester: Principal Transport Officer, and staff at Cape Town [Transcriber's Note: The Lieutenant in Command, sitting on the deck in the foreground appears to be wearing what, I believe, were sometimes later know as Gunnery's Officer's gaiters - very well polished - perhaps someone could confirm the correct term - his boots appear to be studded? The lieutenant wearing khaki appears to be wearing the rig of the day for the Naval Brigade, when ashore. I would guess that the gentleman standing at the rear is a Paymaster, judging by the coloured tape adjacent to the gold rings on his left sleeve ?]Captain Sir Edward Chichester, Bart., who, besides belonging to the Royal Navy, is Companion of St Michael and St George, and A.D.C., has done excellent work during the war as Transport Officer in Natal. If that is one of the departments that has done well, the credit belongs not merely to the plans and preparations of the government, but also the the efficient way in which they have been matured and carried out on the spot my men like Sir Edward Chichester. Born in 1849, he succeeded his father in the ancient family baronetcy in 1898, having married some years earlier, Catherine, daughter of Commander A.C. Whyte, R.N. Sir Edward served in the Transvaal War in 1881, in Egypt the following year, and went with the Nile Expedition of 1884. He was in command of the armoured cruiser Immortalit�, in the China Squadron, before he went to the Cape to take up the transport duties he has discharged with all possible zeal and distinction. Source: Page III of the Supplement to the ILN dated 10 Mar 1900 ^ back to top ^ |