{"id":45230,"date":"2019-10-08T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=45230"},"modified":"2023-09-15T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:41:38","slug":"launcestons-trafalgar-men","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-war-years\/the-napoleonic-wars\/launcestons-trafalgar-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Launceston’s Trafalgar men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The roll call of Launceston men who served aboard ships during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.<\/p>\n

The roll of local men reads:
\nChegwin, Richard. Pte RM, of St Thomas, age 23, aboard The Thunderer<\/a><\/p>\n

Stacey, Richard Pte RM, of Lewannick, age 25, aboard The Thunderer<\/p>\n

\"HMS<\/a>
HMS Thunderer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John, James Pte RM, of Launceston, age 26, aboard The Naiad<\/a><\/p>\n

\"HMS<\/a>
HMS Naiad towing HMS Belleisle into Gibraltar 1805.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nile, John Ord Seaman of Launceston age 26, aboard The Belleisle<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dunne Edward Landsman of Launceston, age 24, aboard The Tonnant<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
HMS Tonnant in battle at Trafalgar.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

White, Richard Purser\u2019s Steward of Launceston, age 44, aboard The Minotaur<\/a>
\nYeo, Peter (b<\/em>. 1784) Landsman of Launceston, age 22, aboard The Spartiate.<\/a> Peter’s Service Number was SB 316.
\nHandy Thomas Landsman of Launceston, age 22, aboard The Spartiate.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
HMS Spartiate.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The spelling of some of the names and places given may differ from spellings in use today, for instance – \u2018Handy\u2019 is possibly \u2018HENDY\u2019.<\/p>\n

Visits: 89<\/p>\n

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. The roll call of Launceston men who served aboard ships during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The roll of local men reads: Chegwin, Richard. Pte RM, of St Thomas, age 23, aboard The Thunderer Stacey, Richard Pte RM, of Lewannick, age 25, aboard The Thunderer John, James Pte RM, of Launceston, age 26, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8345,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45230"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47236,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45230\/revisions\/47236"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}