Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Captain H. C. Lockyer, C.B., Royal Navy Commodore of the first Ocean Convoy.

EGYPT 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Midshipm H.M.S. Achilles); BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. (Commre. 2 Cl.); KHEDIVE'S STAR 1882; Italy ORDER OF THE CROWN, 3rd class neck badge, silver gilt and enamel, lacking suspension loop to allow mounting on wearing bar, first medal very fine, remainder extremely fine (5)

Captain Hughes Campbell Lockyer was Midshipman of Achilles during the Egyptian War, 1882. Whilst employed as Lieutenant of Stork, surveying vessel, he was engaged on the survey of the Chinde mouth of the Zambesi in 1889 and 1890. As navigating officer of Fearless he received the thanks of the Admiralry for surveys made in the Mediterranean. He was much engaged in surveying around Newfoundland 1895-98, and received their Lordships' appreciation of the zeal and ability displayed and the pains taken in the production of excellent charts. He was further thanked by the Admiralty and the Government of Newfoundland for surveys made in 1898 of Newfoundland Bay and part of the coast of St. John's. In the next three years he compiled surveys of the English Channel, Port Madros and Lemnos. He was the inventor of a night signalling apparatus for war service. In 1906 he was appointed King's Harbour Master of Plymouth Sound and received an expression of their Lordships approval on the occasion of the fire on board the S.S. Gothic in Plymouth Sound, 7 June, 1906. He was presented with a piece of gold plate by Messrs. Ismay, Imrie & Co. for his services rendered to the White Star Line steamer Gothic. He was King's Harbour Master at Malta 1909-12, and was given command of H.M.S. Implacable in 1913, a commission he held for four years. In Implacable he served in the landing of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the Gallipoli Peninsula, 25th to 26th April, 1915 (commended for service in action, London Gazette, 16 August 1915). He was appointed Companion of the Bath on 1st January 1916. In May 1917 the Admiralty instructed Captain Lockyer to proceed to Gibraltar as Commodore of the first sea Convoy which was being assembled at Gibraltar. He arrived on May 7, and by May 10 a convoy of sixteen steamers had been organised. On that day the convoy sailed for England, arranged in three columns, Captain Lockyer, as Commodore of the convoy, leading the centre column in the S.S. Clan Gordon. No enemy submarines were encountered and the experiment was considered to have ben a success. Captain Lockyer retired in 1918, having been decorated Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy by the King of Italy, August 1916. He was the author of 'The Tragedy of the Battle of the Beaches, Cape Helles, Gallipoli, 1915', published in 1936.