HMS Anchusa, Royal Navy Reserve Unit (British Navy)
Date Of Birth:
30/07/1886
Died:
16/07/1918 (Died at Sea)
Age:
31
Summary
Henry Neville Chamberlain was the son of Rev. George Chamberlain and Dilliana Mary Chamberlain. Rev. George Chamberlain married Dilliana Mary Brereton on 28 April 1880. Henry Neville Chamberlain was born 30th July 1886 in Carrickfergus. Rev. George Chamberlain was a Church of Ireland Clergyman. Henry attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Henry joined the Royal Navy Reserve Unit and served on HMS Anchusa. The Anchusa was torpedoed on 16th July 1918 by a German submarine off the north coast of Ireland. The majority of the eighty officers, men & boys were lost. Lieutenant Henry Chamberlain was killed just two weeks off his 32nd birthday. The CWGC record that his mother lived at The Rectory, Castledawson, Co. Londonderry.
Further Information
Henry Neville Chamberlain was the son of Rev. George Chamberlain and Dilliana Mary Chamberlain.
Rev. George Chamberlain married Dilliana Mary Brereton on 28 April 1880. Both George and Dilliana were from Limerick. Their first child was born in Dublin.
Henry Neville Chamberlain was born 30th July 1886 in Carrickfergus.
Family: George Chamberlain, Dilliana Mary Chamberlain, George Ashton Chamberlain (born about 1882, Dublin City), Dilliana Mary Chamberlain (born 29th November 1882, Lisburn (Ballylesson), Richard de B? Chamberlain (born 28th November 1883, Lisburn (Ballylesson), Ralph Brereton Chamberlain (born 31st January 1885, Lisburn (Lisburn), Henry Neville Chamberlain (born 30th July 1886, Carrickfergus), William Westropp Chamberlain (born 6th October 1888, Carrickfergus), Arthur Percival Chamberlain (born 18th May 1890, Carrickfergus), Alice Muriel Chamberlain (born 22nd August 1893, Carrickfergus).
The 1901 census lists Henry Neville as age 14 living with the family at house 21 in North East Division, Carrickfergus Rural, Antrim. Rev. George Chamberlain was a Church of Ireland Clergyman.
Henry attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (Inst.) and lived in Carrickfergus before joining the Royal Navy.
The 1911 census does not list Henry as living with the family at house 6 in Governors Place, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. By this time his mother was a widower. His uncle, Ralph Westropp Brereton, a retired Royal Navy Fleet Surgeon, was living with the family.
Lieutenant Henry Neville Chamberlain joined the Royal Navy Reserve Unit and served on HMS Anchusa.
HMS Anchusa was launched in 1917, an Anchusa Class Convoy Sloop, also known as a Fleet Sweeping Sloop, Flower Class. The Royal Navy Flower Class consisted of 39 vessels, deliberately built to designs which gave them the look of merchant ships, so that as well as mine-sweeping, they could serve as Q ships.
The Anchusa was torpedoed on 16th July 1918 by a German submarine off the north coast of Ireland. The majority of the eighty officers, men & boys were lost. Lieutenant Henry Chamberlain was killed just two weeks off his 32nd birthday.
Lieutenant Henry Neville Chamberlain has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 29 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
He is also commemorated in the Royal Belfast Academical Institution War Memorial and the Carrickfergus War Memorial.
Lieutenant Henry Neville Chamberlain is commemorated in the Roll of Honour in St Nicholas’s Church of Ireland in Carickfergus.
The CWGC record Lieutenant Henry Chamberlain as the son of D. M. Chamberlain, of The Rectory, Castledawson, Co. Londonderry, and the late Rev. George Chamberlain. It also record he was a native of Carrickfergus.
