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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barton, Richard

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​BARTON. (Captain, 1837. f-p., 32; h-p., 1 6.)
Richard Barton entered the Navy, 19 Jan. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Latona 38, Capt. Frank Sotheron, and in the following autumn attended, as Midshipman, the expedition to the Helder. He subsequently witnessed the surrender of the Batavian ships in the Vlieder passage, and during the remainder of the war assisted at the capture of several of the enemy’s armed vessels. Becoming attached, in March, 1803, to the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, he shortly afterwards escorted the fleet of Indiamen under Capt. Dance which had recently effected the discomfiture of the French Admiral Linois from the Straits of Malacca to St. Helena; and then returning to the East Indies, continued to serve on that station until 1811 in, successively, the Culloden 74, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, and La Bellone, alias Blanche, 36, Capt. John Bastard, to which ship, after having acted for two years and a half as Lieutenant, he was confirmed, by commission dated 27 Dec. 1808. Mr. Barton, who appears to have also officiated for some months as Captain of the latter frigate, and to have captured during that period La Confiance privateer, of 2 guns and 30 men, was subsequently employed, from Dec. 1811, to Dec. 1815, in the Prince of Wales 98, Grasshopper 16, Crocus 10, and Romney 50, under various officers, on the Home and Mediterranean stations. On 15 March, 1816, he became Flag-Lieutenant, in the Salisbury 50, to Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, where he served until 1818; from Dec. in which year until his promotion to the rank of Commander, 2 July, 1817, we find him employed on the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Severn, Ramillies, and Hyperion, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye. He afterwards did duty as an Inspecting-Commander of the Coast Guard, from 13 April, 1831, until 1836; and since his ​advancement to Post-rank, which took place 2 Jan. 1837, has been on half-pay.
Capt. Barton, who is Senior of 1837, is at present Superintendent of the West India Mail Packet Company’s Establishmeut at Southampton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barton, Ralph

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​BARTON. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 28; h-p., 7.)
Ralph Barton entered the Navy, 2 March, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Crescent 38, Capt. John Quilliam, with whom he cruized in the Baltic, off Newfoundland, and in the West Indies, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until Sept. 1815. He then served for four years in the East Indies, on board the Towby 24, and Bacchus 18, Capts. Hew Stewart and John Pengelly Parkin; and after a further attachment, as Admiralty Midshipman, to the Grasshopper 18, Capts. David Buchan and Jas. Bradley, and Egeria 26, Capt. Sam. Roberts, off Newfoundland, was appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 12 Sept. 1824, of the Sir Francis Drake, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Nehemiah Clarke. Being officially promoted 8 Oct. following, he subsequently joined, on the East India, Mediterranean, Lisbon, and South America stations — 17 Sept. 1825, the Hind 20, Capt. John Furneaux — 21 Oct. 1827, the Success 28, Capt. Jas. Stirling — 23 Feb. 1828, the Java 52, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage — 20 Nov. 1830, the Belvidera Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas — and, 24 Jan. 1835, as First Lieutenant, the Dublin 50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hammond. He rose to the rank he now holds 28 June, 1838; became an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard 28 March, 1839; officiated, from 3 Nov. 1840, until Oct. 1843, as Second Captain of the Monarch 84, commanded, in the Mediterranean, by Capt. Sam. Chambers; and from 16 Feb. 1845, until posted, 9 Nov. 1846, was employed in a similar capacity on board the Vanguard 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, part of the Channel squadron. He is now on half-pay. Agents — Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barry, William

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​BARRY. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
William Barry entered the Navy, 19 March, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cygnet 18, Capt. Donald M‘Leod. While in that sloop under the subsequent command of Capt. Edw. Dix, he narrowly escaped being wrecked off St. Abb’s Head, during an exposure of two days to the fury of a terrific gale, which blew right on shore; and, on 18 Dec. 1809, we find him assisting at the destruction of the 40-gun frigates Loire and Seine, laden with stores and provisions, moored in Ance la Barque, Guadeloupe, and defended by numerous batteries. After further serving for upwards of a twelvemonth in the Star, Capt. Hendrie, Dragon 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey, and Cygnet again, Capt. Robt. Russell, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Feb. 1812, and appointed to the Amaranthe sloop, Capts. Geo. Pringle and Rich. Augustus Yates. He has been unemployed since 26 Oct. 1814.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barrow, Thomas Pownoll Pellew

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​BARROW. (Lieut., 1825. f-p.,15; h-p., 14.)
Thomas Pownoll Pellew Barrow entered the Navy 16 Oct. 1818; and while serving as Midshipman on board the Parthian 10, commanded the boats of that sloop at the capture of a piratical vessel, 18 June, 1824. He obtained a Lieutenancy, 25 May, 1825, in the Lively 46, Capt. Wm. Elliott, successively employed on the coast of Africa, off Lisbon, and in the Channel; and, on 3 Oct. 1831, was appointed First of the Pelorus 18, Capt. Rich. Meredith, also on the Africa station, where, in command of the boats, he took the Minerva slaver, of 10 guns and 65 men, 5 June, 1835. Since the close of the latter year he has been on half-pay. Agent — J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barrie, William

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​BARRIE. (Commander, 1846.)
William Barrie is son of Rear-Admiral of the White the gallant Sir Robt. Barrie, K.C.B., K.C.H. (1837), who rendered his name famous as Captain of the Dragon 74, during the last American war, and died in June 1841, aged 67.
This officer obtained his first commission 16 June, 1837; was appointed, 31 Aug. following, to the President 50, flag-ship in the Pacific of Rear-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross; and from 4 Aug. 1842, until promoted to the rank of Commander 9 Nov. 1846, was employed on the same ​station as First of the Daphne 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow.
He married, in 1846, Dolores, eldest daughter of Col. Wood, of the Chilian army. Agents — Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barrow, Thomas James Raikes

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​BARROW. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Thomas James Raikes Barrow entered the Navy 26 April, 1826; passed his examination 13 June, 1834; served for some time, as Mate, on board the Winchester 50, Capt. Chas. Eden, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Hon. Joceline Percy; and received his commission 4 April, 1843. His appointments have since been, on the Mediterranean station — 22 Aug. 1844, to the Formidable 84, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen — 25 Oct. 186, as First Lieutenant, to the Snake 16, Capt. Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux — 13 Dec. 1845, to the Orestes 18, Capt. Edw. St. Leger Cannon — and, 14 May, 1846, to the Inconstant 36, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, with whom he is at present employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barwell, Nathaniel

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​BARWELL. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Nathaniel Barwell, born 31 Dec. 1793, is son of Osborn Barwell, Esq.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Nov. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Saracen 18, Capt. Jas. Prevost, in which ship, after landing Lieut.-Gen. Whitelocke at Buenos Ayres in July, 1807, he returned home with the despatches announcing the disastrous result of the attack on that place. During a subsequent attachment of three years, as Midshipman, to the Success 32, Capt. John Ayscough, we find Mr. Barwell escorting the present Earl of Roden and a convoy to the Mediterranean, contributing to the reduction of Ischia and Procida, and participating in the capture and destruction of a large number of the enemy’s armed and other vessels. On next joining the Active 46, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, he served with credit in the boats of that frigate at the taking of a convoy of 28 merchantmen, defended by three gun-vessels and a body of 300 troops, in a creek in the island of Ragosniza, in the Adriatic, 27 July, 1811; and on 29 Nov. following bore a part in a hard-fought action of an hour and 40 minutes, which, in rendering the Active captor of La Pomone of 44 guns and 332 men, 50 of whom were killed and wounded, cost her a loss of 8 men killed and 27 wounded, including Capt. Gordon, who lost a leg. He was subsequently employed for two years in the Unite 36, Capt. Henry Edwin Chamberlayne, and Minorca 18, Capt. Ralph Randolph Wormeley, both in the Mediterranean; was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 7 Jan. 1814, in the Wizard 18, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, on the same station; and from May to Sept. 1815, officiated as First of the Erebus 18, Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Fras. Le Hunte, off Flushing. He has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Barwell married Susan Anne, daughter of J. C. Middleton, Esq.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barwell, William

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​BARWELL. (Commander, 1830. p-p., 16; h-p., 20.)
William Barwell entered the Navy, 31 May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Volontaire 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he obtained the rating of Midshipman 6 March, 1813, and continued actively to serve until Dec. 1815. In Jan. 1816, he joined the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell at Cork, whence, on being transferred, in Sept. 1818, to the Carron 20, Capt. John Furneaux, he sailed for the East Indies; on which station he became successively attached to the Leander 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, and Liverpool 40 and Ganges 84 both commanded by Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, with whom he returned to England and was paid off in Oct. 1822. Mr. Barwell, who, after officiating for upwards of 12 months as Acting-Lieutenant, had been confirmed by commission dated on 29 March in the latter year, was subsequently appointed – 30 Nov. 1824, to the Rose 18, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Hon. Chas. Abbot and, 8 May, 1827, to the Hussar 46, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Chas. Ogle on the North America station, where he served until promoted to the rank he now holds, 26 Feb. 1830. He has not since been employed. He is married, and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barrow, Arthur

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​BARROW. (Lieut., 1842; f-p., 17; h-p., 3.)
Arthur Barrow was born 25 Jan. 1815.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Badger 10, Capt. Chas. Crowdy, employed on the coast of Scotland and off Lisbon; and next served as Midshipman, on the Mediterranean and South America stations, of the Donegal 78, Capts. Sir Jahleel Brenton and John Dick, Ferret 10, Capt. Hon. Edw. Wodehouse, and Spartiate 76, flag-ship of Sir Mich. Seymour. In Feb. 1836, having passed his examination in the previous Sept., he became Mate of the Scout 18, Capt. Robt. Craigie, on the coast of Africa, where his gallant conduct in the boats at the capture, 11 Jan. 1837, of the two slave-brigs Esperança and Paquete de Cabo, appears to have procured him official notice. Removing, in Jan. 1840, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, he took part in the ensuing operations on the coast of Syria, and continued to serve in the same ship until promoted to a Lieutenancy, 18 May, 1842, in the Queen 110, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. He was transferred, on 13 July following, to the Howe 120, Capts. Robt. Smart and Thos. Forrest, flag-ship for some time of Sir Fras. Mason, also on the Mediterranean station; and since 31 Dec. 1844, has been again employed on the coast of Africa, in the Ranger sloop, Capt. Jas. Anderson. Agent — John P. Muspratt.
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Missing

MISSING
LORD, how can he be dead? For he stood there just this morn With the live blood in his cheek And the live light on his head. Dost Thou remember, Lord, when he was born, And all my heart went forth thy praise to seek, (I, a creator even as Thou,)— To force Thee to confess The little, young, heart-breaking loveliness, Like willow-buds in Spring, upon his brow? Newest of unfledged things, All perfect but the wings. Master, I lit my tender candle-light Straight at the living fire that rays abroad From thy dread altar, God! How should it end in night?
Lord, in my time of trouble, of tearing strife, Even then I loved thy will, even then I knew That nothing is so beautiful as life! . . . Is not the world's great woe thine anguish too? It hath not passed, thine hour, Again Thou kneelest in the olive-wood. The lands are drunk with sharp-set lust of power, The kings are thirsting, and they pour thy blood. But we, the mothers, we that found thy trace Down terrible ways, that looked upon thy face And are not dead—how should we doubt thy grace?
How many women in how many lands— Almost I weep for them as for mine own— That wait beside the desolate hearthstone! Always before the embattled army stands The horde of women like a phantom wall, Barring the way with desperate, futile hands. The first charge tramples them, the first of all!
​Dost thou remember, Lord, the hearts that prayed As down the shouting village street they swung, The beautiful fighting-men? The sunlight flung His keen young face up like an unfleshed blade . . . O God, so young!
Lord, hast Thou gone away? Once more through all the worlds thy touch I seek. Lord, how can he be dead? For he stood here just this day With the live blood in his cheek, And the live light in his head. Lord, how can he be dead?
Beatrice W. Ravenel
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Moira's Keening

IRELAND
MOIRA'S KEENING
O MOUNTAINS of Erin, Your beauty is fled; Beyond you, in Flanders, My darling lies dead.
Through the dunes and the grasses Bespattered with blood, They bore him; and round him, Bareheaded, they stood,
While the chaplain in khaki Was reading a prayer, And the wind for his keening Was moaning an air.
O son of grey Connaught, No more shall we stand By the dark lough at evening, My hand in your hand,
And talk of a houseen To hold you and me, The scent of the heather, The gorse on the lea.
Yet, bridegroom of mine, You are waiting afar, Past the peak and the blueness, The shine of yon star,
​Where Mary the Mother Is bending her head, And you sleep at her crooning, O boy of mine! dead.
Norreys Jephson O'Conor
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Lines Written in a Fire-Trench

LINES WRITTEN IN A FIRE-TRENCH
TIS midnight, and above the hollow trench, Seen through a gaunt wood's battle-blasted trunks And the stark rafters of a shattered grange, The quiet sky hangs huge and thick with stars. And through the vast gloom, murdering its peace, Guns bellow and their shells rush swishing ere They burst in death and thunder, or they fling Wild jangling spirals round the screaming air. Bullets whine by, and Maxims drub like drums, And through the heaped confusion of all sounds One great gun drives its single vibrant "Broum," And scarce five score of paces from the wall Of piled sandbags and barb-toothed nets of wire, (So near and yet what thousand leagues away!) ​The unseen foe both adds and listens to The self-same discord, eyed by the same stars. Deep darkness hides the desolated land, Save where a sudden flare sails up and bursts In whitest glare above the wilderness, And for one instant lights with lurid pallor The tense, packed faces in the black redoubt.
W. S. S. Lyon
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Lord Kitchener

LORD KITCHENER
UNFLINCHING hero, watchful to forsee And face thy country's peril wheresoe'er, Directing war and peace with equal care, Till by long duty ennobled thou wert he Whom England call'd and bade: "Set my arm free To obey my will and save my honour fair,"— What day the foe presumed on her despair And she herself had trust in none but thee:
Among Herculean deeds the miracle That mass'd the labour of ten years in one Shall be thy monument. Thy work was done Ere we could thank thee; and the high sea swell Surgeth unheeding where thy proud ship fell By the lone Orkneys, at the set of sun.
Robert Bridges
June 8, 1916.
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Men of Verdun

VERDUN
MEN OF VERDUN
THERE are five men in the moonlight That by their shadows stand; Three hobble humped on crutches, And two lack each a hand.
Frogs somewhere near the roadside Chorus their chant absorbed: But a hush breathes out of the dream-light That far in heaven is orbed.
It is gentle as sleep falling And wide as thought can span, The ancient peace and wonder That brims the heart of man.
Beyond the hills it shines now On no peace but the dead, On reek of trenches thunder-shocked, Tense fury of wills in wrestle locked, A chaos crumbled red!
The five men in the moonlight Chat, joke, or gaze apart. They talk of days and comrades, But each one hides his heart.
​They wear clean cap and tunic, As when they went to war; A gleam comes where the medal's pinned: But they will fight no more.
The shadows, maimed and antic, Gesture and shape distort, Like mockery of a demon dumb, Out of the hell-din whence they come, That dogs them for his sport:
But as if dead men were risen And stood before me there With a terrible fame about them blown In beams of spectral air,
I see them, men transfigured As in a dream, dilate Fabulous with the Titan-throb Of battling Europe's fate;
For history's hushed before them, And legend flames afresh,— Verdun, the name of thunder, Is written on their flesh.
Laurence Binyon
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Mother and Mate

MOTHER AND MATE
LIGHTLY she slept, that splendid mother mine Who faced death, undismayed, two hopeless years. . . ("Think of me sometimes, son, but not with tears Lest my soul grieve," she writes. Oh, this divine Unselfishness!). . . Her favourite print smiled down— The stippled Cupid, Bartolozzi-brown— Upon my sorrow. Fire-gleams, fitful, played Among her playthings—Toby mugs and jade. . . .
​And then I dreamed that—suddenly, strangely clear— A voice I knew not, faltered at my ear: "Courage!" . . . Your own dear voice, loved since, and known!
And now that she sleeps well, come times her voice Whispers in day-dreams: "Courage, son! Rejoice That, leaving you, I left you not alone."
Gilbert Frankau
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Lines Written in Surrey, 1917

LINES WRITTEN IN SURREY, 1917
A SUDDEN swirl of song in the bright sky— The little lark adoring his lord the sun; Across the corn the lazy ripples run; Under the eaves, conferring drowsily, Doves droop or amble; the agile waterfly Wrinkles the pool; and flowers, gay and dun, Rose, bluebell, rhododendron, one by one, The buccaneering bees prove busily. ​Ah, who may trace this tranquil loveliness In verse felicitous?—no measure tells; But gazing on her bosom we can guess Why men strike hard for England in red hells, Falling on dreams, 'mid Death's extreme caress, Of English daisies dancing in English dells.
George Herbert Clarke
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Magpies in Picardy

MAGPIES IN PICARDY
THE magpies in Picardy Are more than I can tell. They flicker down the dusty roads And cast a magic spell On the men who march through Picardy, Through Picardy to hell.
​(The blackbird flies with panic, The swallow goes like light, The finches move like ladies, The owl floats by at night; But the great and flashing magpie He flies as artists might.)
A magpie in Picardy Told me secret things— Of the music in white feathers, And the sunlight that sings And dances in deep shadows— He told me with his wings.
(The hawk is cruel and rigid, He watches from a height; The rook is slow and sombre, The robin loves to fight; But the great and flashing magpie He flies as lovers might.)
He told me that in Picardy, An age ago or more, While all his fathers still were eggs, These dusty highways bore Brown, singing soldiers marching out Through Picardy to war.
He said that still through chaos Works on the ancient plan, And two things have altered not Since first the world began— The beauty of the wild green earth And the bravery of man.
(For the sparrow flies unthinking And quarrels in his flight. The heron trails his legs behind, The lark goes out of sight; But the great and flashing magpie He flies as poets might.)
T. P. Cameron Wilson
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Memories

MEMORIES
FAR up at Glorian the wind is sighing. And, as the light grows less, Across the downland sounds the plovers' crying, The voice of loneliness.
Thither, from this sad waste of waters streaming, All the unending night, My heart returns, to see by Kennet gleaming One cottage window-light.
Yet for your sake it is that I must roam now, Dear lands, dear lads I know; I love you so, I could not stay at home now, Nor pay the debt I owe.
E. Hilton Young
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brake, William Lenthall

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​BRAKE. (Lieutenant, 1810. f-p., 18; h-p., 33.)
William Lenthall Brake was born, 24 July, 1787, at Plymouth.
This officer entered the Navy, in the summer of 1796, as a Volunteer, on board the Royal William, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, flag-ship of Sir Peter Parker, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, in which ship he had the misfortune to be very severely injured by a block falling from the mast-head and fracturing his skull. He was in the same ship at the period of the Spithead mutiny, in April, 1797, and was afterwards, until the peace, employed in her tender, the Ant schooner, Lieut.-Commander Matt. Bowles Alt. At the re-commencement of hostilities, in 1803, Mr. Brake joined the Pandour 44, Capt. John Nash, under whom he assisted as Midshipman at the reduction of the Dutch colony of Surinam in May, 1804. Removing then to the Ramillies 74, Capts. Fras. Pickmore and Robt. Yarker, he served as Signal-Mate at the capture of Linois’ squadron in 1806, and of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Santa Croix in Dec. 1807. From Nov. 1808 about which period he passed his examination, until officially promoted, 2 Nov. 1810, he appears to have ​been next employed, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Thetis 38, Capt. Geo. Miller, Neptune 98, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane, Intrepid 64, Capt. Christopher John Williams Nesham, Julia 16, Capts. Wm. Dowers and Sam. Geo. Pechell, (all on the West India station,) FdriEOSE 38, Capt. John Simpson, off Halifax, and Victory 100, and Ardent 64, flag-ships on the Baltic station, the former of Sir Jas. Saumarez, the latter of Sir Geo. Hope and Sir Philip Durham. From the Ardent Mr. Brake was appointed, 12 Feb. 1812, to the Trinculo 18, Capt. Geo. Rennie, in the West Indies, where he became, 13 June following. Senior of the Garland 22, Capt. Rich. Flummer Davies. In the boats of the latter ship, we find him capturing, after a chase of four hours, and only 14 days subsequent to the declaration of war, the American privateer schooner Poor Sailor. For his conduct in next silencing, when in the Tagus, the fire of a castle, Mr. Brake was publicly thanked, in common with the other officers and crew of the Garland. He has been unemployed since 2 Feb. 1816.
Lieut. Brake married, 30 June, 1817, Miss Louisa Newman, and by that lady has issue six children.