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{{LCommRN}} '''Christopher John Francis Eddis''', R.N. (7 June, 1885 – 19 October, 1918) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]].
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{{LCommRN}} '''Christopher John Francis Eddis''', R.N. (7 June, 1885 – 19 October, 1918) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]].  His brother [[Paul Leathley Eddis]] also served in the Navy.
  
 
==Life & Career==
 
==Life & Career==

Revision as of 15:25, 6 February 2017

Lieutenant-Commander Christopher John Francis Eddis, R.N. (7 June, 1885 – 19 October, 1918) was an officer in the Royal Navy. His brother Paul Leathley Eddis also served in the Navy.

Life & Career

The son of a reverend in Surrey, Eddis gained two months' time on passing out of Britannia.

Eddis was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 31 December, 1907.[1]

On 29 October, 1909 the battleship Hannibal collided with Eddis's T.B. 105, severely damaging the boat.

Eddis was appointed Lieutenant & Commander of the first-class torpedo boat T.B. 11 on 19 January, 1911.[2]

In May of 1911, Eddis was blamed for a collision between T.B. 11 and T.B. 31 while embarking men onto T.B. 11, possibly from 31. It was considered that he should have selected a more sheltered location for the operation.

Eddis was appointed in command of the destroyer Cynthia on 14 August, 1913.[3]

Great War

On 7 July 1915, Eddis was admitted to Chatham Hospital for tonsillitis. He was fit on 20 July.

On 1 or 2 December, 1915, Eddis was wounded in action in operations in Mesopotamia. He was mentioned in General Sir John Nixon's despatches, gazetted on 13 July 1916.

Captain X recorded that Eddis "showed great ability and coolness during his period of command of Firefly especially when severely wounded on December 1st 1915."

Eddis was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 31 December, 1915.

Eddis incurred Their Lordships' "grave displeasure" in the disappearance overboard of a petty officer on the night of 27/28 July, 1916.

On 4 August 1917 he called at the Admiralty and was seen in a hospital to have a foreign body removed. Only four days were allotted.

On 5 February 1918, Grasshopper, Mosquito, and Eddis's own Pigeon were escorting a convoy when the Anchor Line/Cunard troopship SS Tuscania was torpedoed and sunk in the North Channel, off Islay by UB 77 as the convoy approached Liverpool. This would be the first troopship carrying American troops sunk in WWI and the only one sunk under protection of a British convoy. The destroyers assisted in the rescue of American troops.[4]

A telegram indicated that Eddis was sick in hospital on 15 May, 1918.

He died of influenza in October, 1918.

See Also

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
The Hon. Guy Stopford 		Captain of H.M. T.B. 105
4 Feb, 1908[5][6] – 27 Oct, 1908[7] 		Succeeded by
Ernest W. Kirkby
Preceded by
Edmond A. T. de P. de la Poer 		Captain of H.M. T.B. 108
27 Oct, 1908[8][9] – 27 Jan, 1910[10] 		Succeeded by
Alfred G. Peace
Preceded by
Charles G. Ramsey 		Captain of H.M. T.B. 11
19 Jan, 1911[11][12] – 14 Aug, 1913[13] 		Succeeded by
Hugh R. Troup
Preceded by
Reginald S. Goff 		Captain of H.M.S. Cynthia
14 Aug, 1913[14][15] – 4 Aug, 1915[16] 		Succeeded by
George ff. H. Lloyd
Preceded by
? 		Captain of H.M.S. Firefly
4 Aug, 1915[17] – 27 Dec, 1915[18] 		Succeeded by
Geoffrey St. J. A. Taylor
Preceded by
? 		Captain of H.M.S. Sawfly
27 Dec, 1915[19][20] – 15 Jan, 1916[21] 		Succeeded by
?
Preceded by
Henry G. Sherbrooke 		Captain of H.M.S. Tarantula
11 Aug, 1916[22] – Sep, 1916[23] 		Succeeded by
George S. Brown
Preceded by
Michael K. H. Kennedy 		Captain of H.M.S. Pigeon
15 May, 1917[24][25] – 19 Mar, 1918[26] 		Succeeded by
Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper
Preceded by
New Command 		Captain of H.M.S. Scimitar
19 Mar, 1918[27] – 19 Oct, 1918[28] 		Succeeded by
James R. C. Cavendish

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 24.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 400.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 300.
  4. ↑ Email from Marilyn Gahm, Spooner, Wisconsin USA to Tone, Feb 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 401.
  7. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 401a.
  9. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  10. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  11. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 400.
  13. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  14. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 393h.
  16. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  17. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  18. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  19. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 397w.
  21. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  22. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  23. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  24. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 396m.
  26. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  27. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.
  28. ↑ Eddis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/98. f. ?.

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