Robert Pringle Kingscote
Commander (retired) Robert Pringle Kingscote, R.N. (10 January, 1884 – 23 November, 1969) served in the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy.
Life & Career
Born in Bective, New South Wales, Kingscote entered the Royal Navy as a Colonial Candidate.[1]
Kingscote served in the armoured cruiser Warspite in the Pacific until being appointed to the Sutlej on 30 July, 1902. He left Sutlej in May 1903, having spent some time in a private hospital in London to undergo surgery to correct an inguinal hernia. Following college, he was appointed to the armoured cruiser Good Hope on 26 April, 1904 and served in her until 15 December 1905.[2]
Kingscote was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 31 December, 1905. In 1907 he traveled to attend a boxing match in Aldershot and came down with heat stroke. This began an extended series of hospitalisations and medical surveys about which few details are noted except that he complained of headaches.[3]
Kingscote was placed on the Retired List as medically unfit on 10 December, 1908, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander (retired) on 31 December, 1913.[4]
Despite his earlier medical issues, Kingscote served in the war in the Canadian Naval Service. This service had him in H.M.S. Emperor of India from 12 October, 1914 through 13 August, 1916. He was also gunnery officer in the light cruiser Phaeton from 1 June 1917 through 20 July 1918.[5]
Kingscote was promoted to the rank of Commander on the Retired List in recognition of his wartime service, dated 11 November, 1918.[6]
He would serve in the Royal Canadian Navy from February 1919 through 26 April, 1920.[7]
World War II
He was commander of H.M.C.S. Naden, a naval base at Esquimalt, home of the Canadian Pacific fleet, starting in September, 1943. He had been serving at the base since September 1939.[8][9]
Kingscote died in 1969 and is buried in Havelock North Cemetery in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.[10]
See Also
Bibliography
| Naval Appointments | ||
| Preceded by Thomas Mitchell |
Captain of H.M. T.B. 82 20 Jan, 1906[11][12] – 10 Nov, 1906[13] |
Succeeded by Frank G. Bramble |
Footnotes
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. ff. 19, 379.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. ff. 19, 379.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. ff. 19, 379.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. ff. 19, 379.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. ff. 19, 379.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. ff. 19, 379.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. ff. 19, 379.
- ↑ Email from relative "tallen", 20230323.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. ff. 19, 379.
- ↑ Find a Grave web page.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. f. ?.
- ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1906). p. 400.
- ↑ Kingscote Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/36. f. ?.
