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Historically Interesting Royal Naval Reserve Long Service Medal Group of Four, Crewman of the Armed
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Historically Interesting Royal Naval Reserve Long Service Medal Group of Four, Crewman of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Voltaire, Who Was Taken Prisoner of War After the Gallant Last Stand Action Against the German Auxiliary Cruiser Thor, off the Cape Verde Islands in 1941, the group consists of 1939-45 star, Atlantic star, 1939-45 War medal and George VI Royal Naval Reserve Long Service Good Conduct medal “6996 C G.E. OGILVIE. P.O. R.N.R”. Medals remain in good overall condition. George Edward Ogilvie was born on 25th September 1906, he lived in Wetherby, West Yorkshire. He was a merchant seaman and enlisted into the Royal Naval Reserve on 19th June 1924. He was called up to service when war was declared, joining the ships company of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Voltaire. HMS Voltaire was an ex Lamport and Holt liner. On the 4th April 1941, HMS Voltaire was intercepted by the German Auxiliary Cruiser Thor, several hundred miles off the coast of the Cape Verde Islands. Voltaire was much slower and had less guns than the German ship, however during the engagement Voltaire, put up a strong fight, lasting two hours in combat before finally being sunk. The ship loss 72 officers and men of the ships company, with nearly 200 crew members being picked up and taken prisoner of war. George Edward Ogilvie was wounded in the right thigh during the action and was lucky to be amongst the survivors. He was subsequently made a prisoner-of-war, held at Camp 10B at Sandbostel, 17 May 1941-19 July 1942, and then Marlag & Milag Nord at Westertimke, 19 July 1942-28 April 1945. Kenneth Poolman describes the action in his history, Armed Merchant Cruisers:
“On 5 April German radio broadcast the news that a raider had sunk the Britannia and the British armed merchant cruiser Voltaire. The C.-in-C. America and West Indies Station ordered the Canadian A.M.C. Prince David to make a search along the track of the Voltaire at her best possible speed. At 2 p.m. on 7 April she sighted a patch of very heavy oil covering an area of three square miles, together with charred wood, clothes and newspapers in a position half-way between the West Indies and the Cape Verde Islands. This was Voltaire’s estimated position on the 4th, and the wreckage was almost certainly hers. There were no survivors in the water, and it seemed likely that something like a repeat of the Alacantara’s and Carnarvon Castle’s actions had taken place - with more final results. Voltaire had probably been outranged and, in view of her slow speed, outmanoeuvred as well. She became formally overdue at Freetown. It was indeed the Thor again, hammer of the A.M.Cs. The tankers Eurofeld and Alsterufer had kept her going through February and March, and Kahler had met the Pinguin’s ten captured whale catchers en route for France and supervised their refuelling from the Spichern, ex-Krossfonn, Widder’s prize, but she had made no captures himself until Britannia had appeared on 25 March, tried to run for it and had been shelled full of holes. Kahler had had to leave her survivors in the overcrowded boats to thirst and the cruel sun, the floaters to the sharks, when he intercepted a message that an enemy ship was on her way, though he informed Berlin by radio of their plight. When a ship appeared she was the Swedish Trollenholm bringing coals from Newcastle to Port Said. He took off her crew and sank her. Just after sunrise on 4 April Thor was steaming about nine hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands when her man in the barrel sighted smoke. Anxious for a capture, Kahler steered for her. It was the Voltaire, though Kahler did not immediately recognize her as an auxiliary cruiser. Thor was flying the Greek flag when Voltaire sighted her, and both ships challenged each other, each firing a warning shot across the other’s bows. Kahler saw that he was faced with an armed liner, unmasked his guns, and Koppen-Boehnke opened fire with salvoes outside the range of Voltaire’s old 6-inch. The first salvo destroyed the A.M.C’s radio room and generator, and in four minutes her painted peacetime wood panelling was well alight. As the range closed Voltaire opened fire, but with all electrical circuits gone her guns were firing individually, raggedly and at random, while Thor’s 5.9s were scoring hit after hit on hull and upperworks. “This time,” Kahler had written in his log, “I have to finish her off.” When the range had sunk to 7,000 yards, Voltaire was circling at 12 knots, steering gear jammed, gulping water through the shell holes in her hull which did nothing to douse the fires racing though her decks, though some of her guns were still firing. Half an hour after the battle had begun one gun was in action forward and Captain Blackburn himself was controlling a single gun on the poop. Some of the raider’s old guns had stopped when overheated training gear broke down once more, and with the range now down to 2,000 yards Kahler manoeuvred for a torpedo attack. But as he closed the A.M.C. he could see that men were jumping into the sea from what was now a blazing wreck. Her guns finally stopped firing, and some men on the poop were even waving improvised white flags. Kahler ceased fire and lay cautiously 4,000 yards off while his boats picked up survivors, the German boats’ crew ready with rifles and machine-guns to keep off sharks. Voltaire sank by her stern two hours after the first shot had been fired, and Kahler, knowing that his victim had been unable to use her radio, felt free to spend five hours saving as many men as he could. With so many badly wounded then aboard, the torpedo deck had to be used as an overflow sick bay. When the final roll call was made, seventy-two men had been killed of Voltaire’s ship’s company of 269. One seaman rescued had a copy of the book Principles of Mercantile Law in his back pocket.”
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Historically Interesting Royal Naval Reserve Long Service Medal Group of Four, Crewman of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Voltaire, Who Was Taken Prisoner of War After the Gallant Last Stand Action Against the German Auxiliary Cruiser Thor, off the Cape Verde Islands in 1941, the group consists of 1939-45 star, Atlantic star, 1939-45 War medal and George VI Royal Naval Reserve Long Service Good Conduct medal “6996 C G.E. OGILVIE. P.O. R.N.R”. Medals remain in good overall condition. George Edward Ogilvie was born on 25th September 1906, he lived in Wetherby, West Yorkshire. He was a merchant seaman and enlisted into the Royal Naval Reserve on 19th June 1924. He was called up to service when war was declared, joining the ships company of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Voltaire. HMS Voltaire was an ex Lamport and Holt liner. On the 4th April 1941, HMS Voltaire was intercepted by the German Auxiliary Cruiser Thor, several hundred miles off the coast of the Cape Verde Islands. Voltaire was much slower and had less guns than the German ship, however during the engagement Voltaire, put up a strong fight, lasting two hours in combat before finally being sunk. The ship loss 72 officers and men of the ships company, with nearly 200 crew members being picked up and taken prisoner of war. George Edward Ogilvie was wounded in the right thigh during the action and was lucky to be amongst the survivors. He was subsequently made a prisoner-of-war, held at Camp 10B at Sandbostel, 17 May 1941-19 July 1942, and then Marlag & Milag Nord at Westertimke, 19 July 1942-28 April 1945. Kenneth Poolman describes the action in his history, Armed Merchant Cruisers:
“On 5 April German radio broadcast the news that a raider had sunk the Britannia and the British armed merchant cruiser Voltaire. The C.-in-C. America and West Indies Station ordered the Canadian A.M.C. Prince David to make a search along the track of the Voltaire at her best possible speed. At 2 p.m. on 7 April she sighted a patch of very heavy oil covering an area of three square miles, together with charred wood, clothes and newspapers in a position half-way between the West Indies and the Cape Verde Islands. This was Voltaire’s estimated position on the 4th, and the wreckage was almost certainly hers. There were no survivors in the water, and it seemed likely that something like a repeat of the Alacantara’s and Carnarvon Castle’s actions had taken place - with more final results. Voltaire had probably been outranged and, in view of her slow speed, outmanoeuvred as well. She became formally overdue at Freetown. It was indeed the Thor again, hammer of the A.M.Cs. The tankers Eurofeld and Alsterufer had kept her going through February and March, and Kahler had met the Pinguin’s ten captured whale catchers en route for France and supervised their refuelling from the Spichern, ex-Krossfonn, Widder’s prize, but she had made no captures himself until Britannia had appeared on 25 March, tried to run for it and had been shelled full of holes. Kahler had had to leave her survivors in the overcrowded boats to thirst and the cruel sun, the floaters to the sharks, when he intercepted a message that an enemy ship was on her way, though he informed Berlin by radio of their plight. When a ship appeared she was the Swedish Trollenholm bringing coals from Newcastle to Port Said. He took off her crew and sank her. Just after sunrise on 4 April Thor was steaming about nine hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands when her man in the barrel sighted smoke. Anxious for a capture, Kahler steered for her. It was the Voltaire, though Kahler did not immediately recognize her as an auxiliary cruiser. Thor was flying the Greek flag when Voltaire sighted her, and both ships challenged each other, each firing a warning shot across the other’s bows. Kahler saw that he was faced with an armed liner, unmasked his guns, and Koppen-Boehnke opened fire with salvoes outside the range of Voltaire’s old 6-inch. The first salvo destroyed the A.M.C’s radio room and generator, and in four minutes her painted peacetime wood panelling was well alight. As the range closed Voltaire opened fire, but with all electrical circuits gone her guns were firing individually, raggedly and at random, while Thor’s 5.9s were scoring hit after hit on hull and upperworks. “This time,” Kahler had written in his log, “I have to finish her off.” When the range had sunk to 7,000 yards, Voltaire was circling at 12 knots, steering gear jammed, gulping water through the shell holes in her hull which did nothing to douse the fires racing though her decks, though some of her guns were still firing. Half an hour after the battle had begun one gun was in action forward and Captain Blackburn himself was controlling a single gun on the poop. Some of the raider’s old guns had stopped when overheated training gear broke down once more, and with the range now down to 2,000 yards Kahler manoeuvred for a torpedo attack. But as he closed the A.M.C. he could see that men were jumping into the sea from what was now a blazing wreck. Her guns finally stopped firing, and some men on the poop were even waving improvised white flags. Kahler ceased fire and lay cautiously 4,000 yards off while his boats picked up survivors, the German boats’ crew ready with rifles and machine-guns to keep off sharks. Voltaire sank by her stern two hours after the first shot had been fired, and Kahler, knowing that his victim had been unable to use her radio, felt free to spend five hours saving as many men as he could. With so many badly wounded then aboard, the torpedo deck had to be used as an overflow sick bay. When the final roll call was made, seventy-two men had been killed of Voltaire’s ship’s company of 269. One seaman rescued had a copy of the book Principles of Mercantile Law in his back pocket.”
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