CECIL A

CECIL A.

HMS Barracouta

p169, 9.6.1875

Deserted 7th June. AB, 25yrs, born at London, England, 5’ 6", dark hair, dark eyes, dark complexion. £3 reward.

CHADBURN Joseph

HMS Barracouta

p364, 16.12 1874 Extract SA PG, 2.12.1874

Deserted at Glenelg, Royal Marine, born at London, in 1842, 5’ 5", light brown hair, blue eyes, fresh complexion. £1 reward.

CHADWICK Walter T.

HMS Espiegle

p190, 17.5.1882

Deserted 13th May. Born in Lancashire, Ord., 20yrs, 5’ 6", dark-brown hair, brown eyes.

CHADWICK, Frederick

HMS Royalist

p3, 8.1.1896

Ord., born at Aldershot, Kent, England, about 20yrs, 5’ 4", light hair, blue eyes, fresh complexion.

CHALK Wm

HMS Danae

p480, 29.12.1880

Deserted 11th December. Boy 1st class, 18yrs, 5’ 2 3/4", fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes; born at Southampton.

CHALMERS Andrew

HMS Conflict

p98, 8.4.1874

Deserted 3rd April. AB, born on the 11th November, 1854, at the Orkney Islands, 5’ 5", light hair, light grey eyes, fair complexion, "S.F.M.S." on right arm, left arm name. Former ship "Blanche". £3 reward.

CHAMBERLAIN, Edward

HMS Diamond

p207, 23.5.1883

Deserted 12th larch. Or-i., born in London, 25yrs, 5’ 4½", fair complex-ion, brown hair and eyes.

CHAMBERLAIN, Henry

HMS Nelson

P21, 10.1.1883 Extract SA PG, 27.12.1882:

deserters at Glenelg during the month of December, 1882

CHAMBERLAIN, William

HMS Nelson

p390, 10.10.1883

Ord., 20yrs, 5’ 5", fresh complexion, brown hair, grey eyes.

CHAMP David

HMS Wolverine

P258, 20.7.1881

Deserted 18th July. Stoker, born at Green Ponds, Tasmania, in 1860, 5’ 6", light brown hair, grey eyes, fair complexion, flag, "H.C.", and anchor tattooed on left arm.

CHAMP David

HMS Wolverine

P269-270, 20.7.1881

Stoker, born in Tasmania, 21yrs, 5’ 5", light-brown hair, grey eyes, fair complexion, flag, "H.C.", and anchor tattooed on left arm.

CHAMP, David

HMS Nelson

p390, 10.10.1883

Stoker, born in Tasmania, 23yrs, 5’ 6", fair complexion, light-brown hair, grey eyes.

CHAMP, David

HMS Opal

p119, 16.4.1890

Deserted 9th April. Born at Hobart, 30yrs, 5’ 6", light-brown hair, grey eyes, fair complexion.

CHANDLER Alfred

HMS Rosario

P111, l4.4.1875

Deserted 6th April. Ord., born at Woolwich, Kent, on the 26th November, 1856; 5’ 4½", brown hair, hazel eyes, fair complexion; former ships "Implacable", and "Adventure".

CHAPMAN Chas.

HMS Renard

p371, 24.12.1873

Deserter on the 22nd December, 1873:-P.0.M., born in Hardington, Northampton, 29 years and 6 months old, 5’ 7", brown hair, blue eyes. £3 sterling reward.

CHAPMAN Chas.

HMS Renard

Deserted 14th October, born at Hardington, Northampton, 5’ 7", brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion. £3 reward.

CHAPMAN S.

HMS Emerald

P106, 17.3.1880 (Extract Vic. PG, 10.3.1880)

AB, 24yrs, 5’ 7", light blue eyes, fair complexion, four spots on left arm.

CHAPMAN Saml.

HMS Emerald

p438, 24.11.1880 (Extract Vic. PG, 17.11.1880)

AB, 24yrs, 5’ 7", light brown hair, light blue eyes, fair complexion.

CHAPMAN Wm. John

HMS Emerald

p438, 24.11.1880 (Extract Vic. PG, 17.11.1880)

Gunner, 28yrs, 5’ 8", hazel eyes, swarthy complexion.

CHAPPELL Edward H.

HMS Inconstant

p273, 27.7.1881 Extract Vic. PG, 20.7.1881:

17yrs, 5’ 3", dark brown hair and eyes, dark complexion, tattooed on left arm.

CHARSLEY, Robert William

HMS Tyne

p181, 15.6.1887

Born at Somerset, 23yrs, 5’ 10", hazel eyes, dark-brown hair, fair complexion.

CHARSTON, William

HMS Egeria

p80, 12.3.1890

Sydney, on the 4th March, 1890. Born at Falmouth, Cornwall, 28yrs, 5’ 5", brown hair, blue eyes, fresh complexion.

CHATFIELD, John

HMS Diamond

p6, 5.1.1887

Born at Portsmouth, 27yrs, 5’ 6", hazel eyes, dark-brown hair, fresh complexion.

CHATFIELD, John

HMS Diamond

P33, 26.1.1887 Extract Qld PG, 15.1.1887:

at Townsville, on the 9th ultimo: 2nd captain foretop, a native of Portsmouth, 27yrs, 5’ 6", dark-brown hair, hazel eyes, fresh complexion, scar on forehead. £3 reward.

CHEELEY Francis

HMS Conflict

p456, 10.12.1879

Deserted 3rd December. AB, 5’ 6½", hazel eyes, fresh complexion. £3 reward.

CHEER William

HMS Alacrity

p194, 8.7.1874

AB, a native of London, 34yrs, 5’ 6", fair complexion, light hair, grey eyes, slight moustache. £3 reward.

CHEESEMAN R.

HMS Clio

p287, 1.10.1873

Deserted 30th September. AB, born on the 7th June, 1837, at London, 5’ 6", brown hair, hazel eyes, dark complexion.

CHEETHAM William

HMS Wolverine

P267, 15.8.1877

Sydney, on the 9th August, 1877. Private RMLI, Born at Bolton, Lancaster, on the 25th June, 1854, 5’ 5 1/5 ", light brown hair, brown eyes, fresh complexion, sharp features; when shaking bends down his head and looks up in a peculiar manner. When last seen had a light coloured moustache. £3 reward.

CHINN, Charles

HMS Miranda

p395, 17.10.1883

From Sydney, on the 10th October, 1883. Pt., R.M.L.I., born in Somerset, 20yrs, 5’ 6", fresh complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, scar right cheek and forehead.

CHINN, Richard

HMS Nelson

p359, 30.11.1887

at Williamstown, on the 23rd November, 1887. Born at Bridgewater, Somerset, 31yrs, 5’ 7½", grey eyes, brown hair, fresh complexion, small scar on left arm.

CHINN, Richard

HMS Nelson

p361, 30.11.1887 Extract free Vic PG, 23.11.1887:

at Williamstown, on the 21st instant. Private, RMLI, born on the16th October, 1856; at Somerset, 5’ 7½", brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, small scar on left knee-cap bone.

CHISWELL George

HMS Emerald

p438, 24.11.1880 (Extract Vic. PG, 17.11.1880)

Pte.R.N., 26yrs, 5’ 5", brown hair, hazel eyes, fresh complexion.

CHIVERS, Thomas

HMS Diamond

p453, 19.11.1894 Extract Vic PG, 12.11.1884:

Deserted 7th November. Foretop second captain; native of Croydon; 5’ 5", brown hair and eyes, fresh complexion. £1 reward. (Note - p467, 3.12.1884 (Extract from Vic PG, 26.11.1884 Vide Vic.PG, 1884, p312:- All the above deserters from HMS Diamond are now on board.).

CHOUVILLE Victor Emanuel

French Ironclad, "Victorieuse"

p39, 29.1.1879

Deserted 26th January. An apprentice, 22yrs, 5’ 8 3/4", fair hair, grey eyes, clear and oval face, large nose, large forehead, and ordinary mouth; a native of Paris.

CHRISTIE John

HMS Miranda

pp462-3, 22.11.1882 (Extract Vic. PG, 15.11.1882)

Native of Kinsale, Cork, a shipwright, 25yrs, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, cut on left hand. £3 reward.

CHRISTIE, John

HMS Miranda

p481, 6.12.1882 Extracts from Vic PG, 22.11.1882:

A shipwright, born in 1857, at Cork, 5’ 6", brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complex-- ion, cut on left hand. Deserted 10th November.

CLAPP Frederick

HMS Sapphire

p365, 9.10.1878

Deserted 2nd October. AB, born at Exmouth, in 1856, 5’ 4½", dark brown hair, brown eyes, dark complexion, rather short black whiskers, beard and moustache.

CLARE Francis

HMS Conflict

p3, 6.1.1875

Deserted 1st January. P.O., 2nd class, born at Southampton, Hants, on the 22nd December, 1842, 5’ 6", brown hair, hazel eyes, grey complexion; former ship Pearl. £3 reward.

CLARK Edward

HMS Alert

p132, 13.4.1881

AB, born in Essex, in November, 1860, 5’ 6", auburn hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, freckled, cut on forehead.

CLARK Henry Walter

Deserted 8th January. Ord., born in Greenwich, 20yrs, 5’ 4", light hair, blue eyes, pale complexion.

CLARK Thomas

HMS Emerald

p438, 24.11.1880 (Extract Vic. PG, 17.11.1880)

Ord., 19yrs, 5’ 6", light-brown hair, blue eyes, fresh complexion.

CLARK, Albert J.

HMS Diamond

p246, 20.6.1883

Ord., born in Dawlish, Devon, 19yrs, 5’ 3", ruddy complexion, brown hair, grey eyes.

CLARK, Joshua E.

HMS Diamond

p207, 23.5.1883

Deserted 6th April. Carpenter, born in Liverpool, 20yrs, 5’ 7", fair complexion, brown hair, dark-brown eyes.

CLARK, William Thomas

HMS Katoomba

P405, 28.11.1894

Private, RMLI, born in Ross, Gloucester, England, about 20yrs, 5’ 5", dark brown hair, brown eyes, pale complexion, a dot tattooed on left forearm, cross flags "V.R. W.T.C." tattooed on right arm.

CLARKE Francis

HMS Conflict

p136, 13.5.1874

PO., 2nd class, born at Southampton, Hants, 33yrs, 5’ 6", brown hair, hazel eyes, fair complexion. Former ship Pearl. £1 reward.

CLARKE George

HMS Pearl

P111, l4.4.1875

Deserted 6th April. AB, born at Dublin, Ireland, on the 18th March, 1839, 5’ 5", fair hair, grey eyes, scald on left forearm, "M.A.K.L." on right arm. £3 reward.

CLARKE Henry Walter

HMS Wolverine

pp51-2, 8.2.1882, Vide PG, 1882, P16

Deserter arrested Sydney. I see CLARK

CLARKE Thomas A.

HMS Cleopatra

P289, 10.8.1881

Ord., 20yrs, 5’ 6", light-brown hair, dark-blue eyes, fresh complexion.

CLARKE Walter C.

HMS Challenger

p128, 6.5.1874

Deserters Sydney, on the 30th April, 1874:-Signalman, born in 1853, at St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey, 5’ 5", light hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, slightly pock-marked. £3 reward.

CLARKE William

HMS Alert

p52, 9.2.1881

Stoker, born at Woolwich, in November, 1857, 5’ 7", sandy hair, blue eyes, fair complexion.

CLARKE, Albert C.

HMS Diamond

P476, 12.12.1883 Vide PG 1883, p246

Deserter, arrested Tamworth Police.

CLARKE, Alfred

HMS Mildura

p437, 22.12.1897

Born in Stepney, London, about 21yrs, 5’ 3", dark-brown hair, brown eyes, dark complexion, two scars of cuts on thumb of right hand.

CLARKE, Arthur

HMS Blanche

p203, 9.7.1873

Private, absent since 7th instant; 25yrs, 5’ 6", light brown hair, pale complexion, slight moustache, rather an open mouth with dirty teeth, and idiotic express- ion. £1 reward.

CLARKE, Fred. W.

HMS Lark

p488, 13.12.1882

Car. crew, born in Middlesex, 23yrs, 5’ 4", fresh complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes.

CLARKE, James

HMS Basilisk

p105, 10.4.1872

Stoker, born on the 28th December, 1843, at Lambeth, London; 5’ 2½", dark brown hair, grey eyes; former ships "Reserve", and "Sheerness".

CLARKE, James S.

HMS Blanche

p140, 30.4.1873 (Extract Vic. PG., 22.4.1873)

Stragglers at Hobson’s Bay, on the 14th April, 1873:-AB, born in 1852, English, 5’ 6", light hair, grey eyes, no hair on face. £1 reward.

CLARKE, Jas.

HMS Blanche

p3 , 1.1.1873

AB, born in England, in November, 1850, 5’ 6", light hair, blue eyes. £3 reward.

CLARKE, Wm.

HMS Clio

p140, 15.5.1872

Ord. 2nd class; born at London; age 19; 5’ 7", light hair, blue eyes, sallow complexion, no hair on face. £3 reward.

CLAWLEY Thos.

HMS Sappho

p207, 14.7.1875

Deserted 9th July. Stoker, born in England, in 1854, 5’ 6", brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion. £3 reward.

CLAYDON William

HMS Pearl

p146, 20.5.1874

Bugler, R.M.A., born in August, 1844, at Portsmouth, 5’ 6’, brown hair, grey eyes, pitted with small pox. £3 reward.

CLEAVE Francis

HMS Basilisk

p28, 4.2.1874

About 5’ 9", fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes. £1 reward.

CLEE, James

HMS Clio

p194, 17.7.1872

Ord. 2nd class; born on the 17th October, 1853, at London; 5’ 6", brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion.

CLELAND William

HMS Inconstant

P258, 20.7.1881

Born in 1862, 5’ 5", brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion.

CLELAND William

HMS Inconstant

p272, 27.7.1881 Vide PG, 1881, pages 257-8:

Deserter Arrested.

CLERY, Edward L.

HMS Lizard

p324, 16.10.1889

Born at St. Heliers, Jersey, 18yrs, 5’ 5", hazel eyes, dark brown hair, dark complexion.

CLEWETT, Will.

HMS Opal

p332, 11.11.1885

Boy 1st class, born at Bristol, England, 18yrs, 5’ 3", brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, protruding lips, long nose.

CLIFFORD Thomas

HMS Barracouta

p367, 23.12.1874

Deserted 16th December. , born at Birmingham, on the 9th April, 1853, 5’ 6", brown hair, hazel eyes, fresh complexion; from R.M. barracks. £3 reward.

CLIFFORD Thos.

HMS Barracouta

p127, 28.4.1875

Marine, born in Chatham, 23yrs, 5’ 7", brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion. £3 reward.

CLIFFORD, Louis

HMS Opal

p363, 9.12.1885

Sydney, on the 7th December, 1885. Boy, 1st class, born in Wiltshire, England, 17yrs, 5’ 4", brown hair and eyes, fresh complexion.

CLIFFORD, Louis

HMS Opal

p375, 16.12.1885

Sydney, on the 7th December, 1885. Boy, 1st class, born in Wilts, England, 16yrs, 5’ 4", brown hair, fresh complexion.

CLIFTON, Samuel

HMS Egeria

P51, 15.2.1888

Born in Aston, Worcester, 19yrs, 5’ 6", brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, dull, stupid-looking lad.

CLINT William

HMS Nymphe

p333, 17.11.1875

Deserted 5th November. Stoker, born on the 10th June, at St. Margaret’s, Rochester, 5’ 6", auburn hair, grey eyes, fair complexion. Former ship "Pembroke". £1 reward.

CLUTTERBUCK James H.

HMS Nelson

p45, 8.2.1882

Gunner, R.M.A., born in Yorkshire, 21yrs, 5’ 6½", fresh complexion, fresh complexion, brown hair, grey eyes, auburn hair, blue eyes. Deserted 2nd February.