Now available to view on Calameo – “NOT JUST A NAME ON A BOARD” – a book about the lives, service and deaths of the men whose names appear on the Honours Board. It is a detailed historical account commemorating the 89 officers and men of HMS EAGLE, Mersey Division RNVR who served and sacrificed their lives during World War I.
Authored by Lt Cdr John Glover, it explores the lives, service, and deaths of these individuals, providing a tribute to their bravery and dedication.

Click on the link to view and read the book

More Than Just A Name on a Board

UPDATE TO THE BOOK

On Friday. 21st November, a Service of Rededication was held for the addition of names to the Roll of Honour in the Hall of Remembrance in Liverpool Town Hall.

Whilst researching the names on the Honours Board in HMS EAGLET, it was discovered that 13 of these men who made the ultimate sacrifice were not named in the Hall of Remembrance in the Town Hall which honours those servicemen and women who have fallen. 

This was rectified at the Service attended by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Barbara Murray, Commodore Thomas Knowles, Naval Regional Commander Northern England, Cdr Richard Fletcher, CO HMS EAGLET, Lt Col David Hartley, CO Merseyside RMR, members of the Royal Naval Reserve Officers’ Club, Liverpool (the Sea Urchins) and HMS EAGLET Old and Bold Affiliation who accepted scrolls on behalf of the families of the men.

Members of the family of AB Alexander Campbell who drowned after the ship he was serving on, a Danish vessel, SS Bogatyr, was torpedoed, and then ran aground in bad weather off the Lincolnshire Coast in February 1916, were able to attend the ceremony. Fiona Richardson, a Great Niece of AB Campbell is shown receiving the scroll.

CPO (MW) Steve Calderbank (President of the OBA) receiving a Scroll on behalf of Wireman Mould’s family.

Chief Petty Officer Raymond McAuley (Standard Bearer) HMS EAGLET Old and Bold Affiliation